Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Gravatars in Blue Zinfindel Theme

    For a while I have meant to do this. Here I am with insomnia, so here goes… I have implemented Gravatars for the this Blue Zinfindel theme. Here is coding I used to implement it to this theme’s comments.php (WP Design > Theme Editor > Comments). Normal text is for context. Bold is what I…

  • Gravatars

    Probably I missed or didn’t understand the announcement. For the past month or so, I’ve noticed all these comments with the poster’s picture next to it on various blogs. I knew them to be WordPress blogs. I noticed my own WP had some default icon in the admin user interface. Today I finally put it…

  • WordPress Error: This file cannot be used on its own.

    In posting a comment to a friend’s WordPress blog, it came up with the error: Error: This file cannot be used on its own. I was responding to a comment, so I doubted that he broke his blog between making a comment and my response. So I went looking though my own install. Essentially, at…

  • Tweets for Today

    08:47 The windows @ work are rattling from the thunder. Good thing one is 5 feet away, right? # 09:44 @sholeh look up Homestarrunner’s what makes a good techno song. “The system is down… the system is down…” # 09:45 @strawpoll Ninjas, pirates smell like bilge water and rotten eggs. # 11:08 E: “You are…

  • Fixed Blogroll

    Apparently this WordPress template is ancient? It was using a really old call to display the blogroll. Modified the template to use wp_list_bookmarks and suddenly you can see the categories again.

  • What I am reading Pt II

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    I’ve started playing with Google Reader. Maybe I will use it instead of Bloglines? A cool feature of both is the ability to share with others the posts I find interesting. Sharing with Google Reader is easier and prettier than blogging with Bloglines. Though Bloglines also allows others to see my public subscriptions.

  • Turn the Tables

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    CrossRoads Newsletter and Career Development Center: With corporate recruiters and executive search firms now using blogs as a prescreening tool for candidates, Whitcomb advises people to create online journals to demonstrate their skills, share their expertise, and lend potential employers insight into their personality. “You can write about projects you are working on, industry events,…

  • A Blogosphere Ecology

    This is an article a former coworker, Bernie Gunder, helped me write for Focus On, a guest topic section of Portico, a Valdosta State University paper. A Blogosphere Ecology My name is Ezra Freelove, ‘99, and I’m a 29-year-old self-professed computer geek and technology professional who spends more hours in front of a computer than…

  • The Reading List

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    I have added the blogs and web sites I am often inclined to read to the sidebar. The list a good one. Do take the time visit them. Many belong to my friends here.