Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category

Week 05: Cage Without a Key

That’s the thing about depres­sion: A human being can sur­vive almost any­thing, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depres­sion is so insid­i­ous, and it com­pounds daily, that it’s impos­si­ble to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage with­out a key. – Eliz­a­beth Wurtzel Wait, Week 05? What ever happened […]

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Brain Dump 01

One of my goals for this year is to write more here; so while I don’t have a sin­gle idea that feels wor­thy of a full post, here’s a dump of var­i­ous things float­ing around/through my skull today. Is today stu­pid dri­ving day or some­thing? I’ll grant I left for work a few min­utes later than […]

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State of the Word

At Word­Camp San Fran­cisco 2011, Matt Mul­len­weg gave the a pre­sen­ta­tion enti­tled State of the Word. Dur­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion, he talked about the 2011 Word­Press User/Developer sur­vey they did. Then today they released an anonymized copy of the data as a com­pressed CSV file. I took a quick look at the CSV and whipped up the […]

WordPress 3.1 is Out

The lat­est, great­est ver­sion of Word­Press was released yes­ter­day. It comes with a whole lot fixes and new fea­tures. One of those new fea­tures is an admin bar sim­i­lar to the one used on WordPress.com; how­ever the admin bar only includes spe­cific links rather than being auto­mat­i­cally pop­u­lated with all the var­i­ous links that my […]

Joys of Computers

The first rule of com­put­ing is to RTFM. The lesser known but equally impor­tant corol­lary to that rule is to be sure you are read­ing the right man­ual. If I had remem­bered that, I could have saved myself 3 hours of frus­tra­tion this evening.

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