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Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software

Last night I upgraded my home PC from Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10.  On the one hand, the upgrade went bet­ter than any other upgrade ever has.  On the other, I ran into some major prob­lems. Good The actual upgrade process com­pleted with­out errors. The com­puter was suc­cess­fully upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 with­out any manual […]

Tags: KDE, Kubuntu, linux, Upgrade

Read more | Comments (3) | Nov 16, 2008

Now-Reading Tweaks v2

Posted by Mark | Filed under Plugins, Software, WordPress

Some time back, I tried to make Rob Miller’s Now-Reading plu­gin dis­play who’s read­ing each book on the indi­vid­ual pages. But the PHP code I posted at that time didn’t work like I thought it did, my inter­ests changed and I moved onto other things. Today I had a vis­i­tor stop by ask­ing about my […]

Tags: Now-Reading, Plugins, WordPress

Read more | Comments (2) | Sep 12, 2008

Quick Note

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Quickie, Software

Just upgraded CoffeeBear.net to Word­Press 2.6. So this post is partly to make sure all my plu­g­ins are work­ing cor­rectly with it. I’d also like to take a momemt to thank AWelkin & Bryon for the gifts they brought back from Japan for me. I’ve now dec­o­rated my cubi­cle with 3 Tachikoma gashapon. *yeah!* Also a […]

Tags: Python, thanks, Upgrade, WordPress

Read more | Comments (0) | Jul 15, 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 […]

Tags: Now-Reading, PHP, Plugins, WordPress

Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 5, 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 […]

Tags: Encoding, MySQL, WordPress

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