Archive for June, 2008

Cedar Rapids Flood 2008

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I’ve taken a few pho­tos of the flood but not yet got­ten around to pulling them off my cam­era. I got a bit tired of wait­ing to post my pho­tos over to Flickr and I wanted to see what pho­tos some oth­ers in the area had. So I cre­ate this mosaic of the flood photos […]

Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 16, 2008

The Great Cedar Rapids Flood

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Just to let every­body know, we’re still here and doing ok. Our house is approx­i­mately 1 mile out­side of the 500 year flood plain1, so hope­fully we won’t have to evac­u­ate. Our main prob­lem around here at the moment is a lack of usable water. The city only has one well work­ing at the moment, […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 13, 2008

Now-Reading: Default Filters on Book-Meta

Posted by Mark | Filed under Plugins, WordPress

Ever since upgrad­ing to the lat­est ver­sion of Rob Miller’s Now-Reading plu­gin, I noticed my sin­gle book pages were work­ing but not dis­play­ing every­thing cor­rectly. Specif­i­cally books I’d marked hav­ing been bor­rowed from my local library were being dis­played as: I bor­rowed this book from­li­brary When they should sim­ply have a line read­ing “I borrowed […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 5, 2008

Review: Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull

Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews

What a wretched, steam­ing pile of poo this movie was. Two thumbs all the way down. The wacky, over-the-top stu­pid­ity of the script turned what should have been a fun night at the movies into a con­stant groan fest as things went from bad to worse to crap. I’d been warned off the film by […]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Jun 3, 2008

Fixing Entries

Posted by Mark | Filed under Quickie, WordPress

A recent vis­i­tor to the CB pointed out a prob­lem on some of my older entries.  It’s some­thing I was expect­ing to have to fix but got side­tracked and never got around to.  Basi­cally with the upgrade to Word­Press 2.5.x, there are a cou­ple of new set­tings in the wp_config.php file which have Word­Press to […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 3, 2008