Question: Is the built-in WordPress automatic install / upgrade process compatible with a SVN deployment of WordPress?
Short answer: Yes.
Ever since WordPress came out with the automatic upgrade functionality in 2.7 I’ve hesitated to use it since the [...]
Congratulations to President Barack Obama on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize!
2009 Nobel Peace Prize press release:
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack [...]
If you deploy projects live out of Subversion repositories to public web servers, here’s a good tip for denying access to the .svn directories to keep people from snooping around your files.
Edit your global Apache config file (httpd.conf) or .htaccess file to include the following directive:
# Disallow any .svn [...]
One of my clients (ARMS – Athlete Relationship Management Software) needed a billboard design to be displayed in a university stadium. Â Here are some of the revisions we made, going from the first draft to final version. The requirements were to build two square billboards, one 24″x24″ and the [...]
Fun times working at the coffee shop
One of the last times we will all be physically in the same place. Good times.
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Selling my entire collection of Wired Magazine, including most issue from September 1999 through June 2009. Page through 10 years of cool technology, neat ideas and interesting ads. Wired is jam-packed full of [...]
For sale: Mint condition copy of the October 2008 SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION of Esquire Magazine that features an animated e-ink cover [...]
If you haven’t gotten your mom something yet, consider donating to the new Mother’s Grove in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest…
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I’m proud to announce the immediate availability of our Vogon Poetry application for iPhone and iPod Touch. You can get it in [...]
Quite excellent music video featuring space invaders and happy blip blops. Thanks to Kevin for pointing it out.
[...]I was just working on making some updates to the backend WordPress code for the Principia Pilot website ([principiapilot.org]) and noticed widows in some of the stories.
Widows are the typographic term for a single word on a line at the end of a paragraph. I thought about the solution [...]
Since Kevin is now living in College Station, TX now that he’s transfered to Texas A&M, his sweet condo in Tampa is now for rent. If you know anyone who would be looking for a place near the USF campus in Tampa you should check [...]
Do your duty as a citizen of this fine country and vote today.
May we choose wisely this time. For me, I [...]
It’s surprisingly simple to get a Fictitious Name registered in Missouri, and it only happens to cost $7.00.
Simply click here: Missouri Registration of Fictitious Name and then fill out two simple online [...]
I hope this makes people think seriously about what they believe about Democrats / Republicans this election season. Colin Powell explains quite clearly why he is going to be voting for Barack Obama in this election. Finally someone actually says what we’ve been thinking every time we hear the myth [...]
One of the clips that has been played over and over again was of Barack Obama’s pastor saying that America’s chickens were coming home to roost. This video reveals that he was quoting a U.S. Ambassador who had said this. Fox News and other media outlets played the quote, over [...]
One of the clips that has been played over and over again was of Barack Obama’s pastor saying that America’s chickens were coming home to roost. This video reveals that he was quoting a U.S. Ambassador who had said this. Fox News and other media outlets played the quote, over [...]
I can see why people like FriendFeed. It brings together lots of services, very easily, quickly, and more twitter-like and simple presentation than Tumblr which does much the same thing but shows larger versions of the content vs. smaller thumbnails. Also, the whole social aspect of it (the [...]
Watch Barack Obama’s speech on his vision of the future of the perfection of the United States of America:
My favorite quote from this deeply nuanced, insightful and intelligent speech:
“This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and [...]
Watch Barack Obama’s speech on his vision of the future of the perfection of the United States of America:
My favorite quote from this deeply nuanced, insightful and intelligent speech:
“This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and [...]
“Don’t base your votes, this time, on fear. Base them on possibility.”
The time for a thinker as our leader has come.
“Don’t base your votes, this time, on fear. Base them on possibility.”
The time for a thinker as our leader has come.
Watch on YouTube - Michelle Obama: Be not afraid [...]On 2/15/08 I was 195.5 lb.
[...]Barack Obama is the most intelligent, reasoned politician I have ever heard. This video is remarkable. In it, he shares his views on religion and its role in a pluralistic, progressive society.
My favorite passage of the speech (emphahsis added):
And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if [...]
Barack Obama is the most intelligent, reasoned politician I have ever heard. This video is remarkable. In it, he shares his views on religion and its role in a pluralistic, progressive society.
My favorite passage of the speech (emphahsis added):
And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if [...]
One of the smartest people around, noted Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, has put together an outstanding video sharing his reasons for voting for Obama. I highly recommend watching it and thinking about the issues he raises. If you disagree, why?
Watch or download the high-quality video [...]
One of the smartest people around, noted Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, has put together an outstanding video sharing his reasons for voting for Obama. I highly recommend watching it and thinking about the issues he raises. If you disagree, why?
NPR and the AP called Missouri for Hillary Clinton earlier tonight. Barack went from ~30% won to 49.2%, FOR THE WIN.
I am so proud to say that my vote helped prove them wrong. [...]
So tasty, cooked in a bed of golden melted butter in a well-seasoned iron skillet. Each one is baked for 13 minutes, and rises up over the edges of the [...] 
Pictures taken during our trip to the St. Louis Art Museum on Friday night with Michael and Janessa.
This is a photo of [...]
After going through some of the many viola jokes with my good friend Dmitri (who plays both the violin and occasionally, when he is about to die of starvation, a viola as well), he asked [...]
Looks like the Children’s Eternal Rainforest Cause group is getting some attention:
Online social networking site Facebook.com is hosting a contest in partnership with The Case Foundation — the Causes Giving Challenge — that will award $50,000 to the non-profit organization that attracts the most individual [...]
There is a $50,000 prize for the group that can get the most unique donations over the next 26 days using the Facebook Causes application. We recently got the Children’s Eternal Rainforest [...] 
It’s super simple: Click this link, then join the Facebook Causes group for Monteverde Conservation League and donate any amount.
Right now, if we can get another 7 donors in the next 22 hours the Children’s Eternal Rainforest will get $1,000 for free. So [...]
As part of getting an upgraded server set up and transferring sites from the older server, I had to re-install PEAR XML_RSS. One of its dependencies is XML_Tree.
Normally, this command should have worked with no problems:
pear install XML_RSS
It downloaded XML_RSS just fine, but then choked on XML_Tree, which was a [...]
Early morning dog walk in Tower Grove Park. At 15ş F it was pretty chilly, but I bundled up pretty well and was warm the whole time.
A good [...]
Dominoes make for wide pixels.
This was my entry in the audience participation contest, where we had 15 minutes to design a graphic that best conveyed the concept of "Survival [...] Google’s new Charts API is very cool. I am interested to see how we might possibly use that with Collabofit to do additional charting.
Here’s the code used to generate that graph above:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?
cht=lc
&chs=500x300
&chd=s:GabrielSerafini2007
&chtt='Gabriel%20Serafini%202007'%20Using%20the%20New%20Google%20Charts%20API
&chxt=x,y
&chxl=0:|1976|1986|1996|2007|1:||Cool||Amazing||Awesome
Very simple, clean, [...]
Time for bed now.
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I’ve been enjoying using my Apple AirPort Express to stream music from my laptop to our living room speakers using iTunes. The other evening I wanted to watch a DVD and use the good speakers to get [...]
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Neat picture from when we grilled up at Michael’s [...]
Just ordered a new mattress for the trundle bed in the guest room from a manufacturer that is about 2 miles away. I didn’t even know they made that kind of thing locally anymore. So [...]
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If you need some tuckpointing or stone masonry repair work done in the St. Louis area, I recommend you contact Percy Griffin at (314) 353-7620. He’s been doing work on our house, and has been doing a really nice job of filling the holes and cracks in our foundation and [...]
I’ve had this domain name for a while and finally built something on it. The idea is to figure out good ways to save money on car insurance. We have USAA for ours, which makes it nice because it is a pretty good rate. Some people need extra help, though, [...]
I’ve been helping Benton Consulting work on the new design for the I Live Inspired website (now launched) and came across this story about the founders who have decided to walk 100 miles across the state of Indiana for a chance to meet the Dalai Lama. Their service is [...]
Simply brilliant. The heartiest laugh I’ve had in quite a while. ZOMG ROFL.
Read more awesome comics here: xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe Technorati Tags: Funny [...]
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Glad we got that covered.
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UPDATE: I _AM_ going to this. 
When:
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Doors open at 7PM
Competition from 8 - 11PMAfter party from 11PM - 4AM
Where
Logan Square Auditorium
2539 North Kedzie Blvd #15
773 252 6179
http://www.lsachicago.com/
The IT Crowd is so awesomely funny. Tonight’s episode is so funny we’re watching it again. Completely hilarious. LOLed for about half the show.
You must watch this now. Run don’t walk.
After all the wonderful bread that Kristin’s been making, I thought I’d look into trying to make my own sourdough. I’m pretty sure this way lies madness. But I’m giving it a shot. After Googling for info on making sourdough [...]
Bruce posted another nice series of cool car pics: “Naked” KTM X-Bow — Half the car, twice the sex apeal.
Cool car, hope it doesn’t rain.
Technorati Tags: cars car desktops car wallpapers Cool [...]
When we came up with the final design for our kitchen range hood, we did a fair amount of research into finding someone in St. Louis who could build what we had designed. Eric called [...]
If you’ve forgotten what truly amazing ice cream tastes like, you should try some Serendipity ice cream. It’s made right here in St. Louis, and it is just exquisite. We’ve been eating the Gooey Butter Cake ice cream and the [...]
UPDATE: Apparently prayer works haha. Gardiner helpfully pointed me to this link: [www.dailykos.com], where Kos points out that the diary entry linked below is not credible. I wish it weren’t such a damn believable story though. I hope this “fiction” remains exactly that. Unfortunately, Bush’s actions with Iraq have [...]
Took some pictures of the total lunar eclipse last night. I kind of wish I had a telescope when I was taking these pics. The first couple of shots where it’s all [...]
This is super, super cool. Each second represents 40 hours of collective time drawing on this huge internet graffiti wall.
View the history: drawball history: one year at 40 hours per second
Draw there yourself: Drawball.com
Found it via reddit.com
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Kristin [...]
Voting is now enabled on the Miro one-click subscribe button design contest. Voting is by leaving comments. Please leave a comment and vote for my buttons if you like them.
Thanks!
UPDATE: Thanks to [...]
Miro (the open source video player formerly known as Democracy) is running a contest right now to design a revised one-click subscribe button.
A Fun Little Design Contest
Design up to three buttons and submit them as links in the comments. On August 20th, we’ll create a blog post with [...]
Bruce wrote another article over on FastWallpapers.com about his love of beautiful cars. This time, however, it is a top list of the ugliest cars he could find. Not surprisingly, the Pontiac Aztec leads the list. Poor Aztec, at the top of everyone’s ugly list.
I’m working on a new site relating to Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act compliance (it will replace the useless site that is currently up at grammleachblileyact.com) and was looking for breadcrumb functionality and a better way to manage outputting links from the Blogroll on the links.php page.
I had searched for a good [...]
For quite a while, RSS2.com has been slow. Ever since it hit, oh, around 1.4 million items in its database (now up over 2 million) the queries that were responsible for building the home page view had gotten slower and slower.
The old designThe problem was one of normalization, and the [...]
More coverage of this here:
This [...]
Nice article on ALA about how to create a layout using almost pure CSS where there is a fixed-width sidebar and a dynamically resizing right-hand main content area without using Javascript to dynamically resize the page.
All right, class. Using CSS, kindly produce a liquid layout that contains a fixed-width, scrolling [...]
Some excellent articles here about good web building practices.
Check it out: Web DevoutWelcome to Web Devout! This site is aimed at promoting the health of the Web by providing web developers and the public with the knowledge and tools needed to help the Web move forward.
Thanks for the pointer, [...]
Bruce’s project is starting to really flesh out nicely. If you’re looking for some sexy exotic car wallpapers, check out FastWallpapers.com.
Technorati Tags: Cool Hunting General Media pictures [...]
I’m selling my 55 gallon aquarium setup for $25. The only problem with it is that the bottom panel is cracked, which means that it doesn’t hold water. Other than that, it’s a great setup.
Updated: Sold quickly [...]
Question: What do scientists consider to be valid evidence for a theory? How should studies be conducted to prove efficacy of treatment options? How can we tell, scientifically, if something really works or not?
Bruce and I just finished getting the template finished for the new FastWallpapers.com site.
I’m happy to announce that Kristin’s new site is now finally live. It’s all converted to a full WordPress site now.
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