Month: March 2005

Broken support links on the wordpress.org site

Just sent this email to webmaster@wordpress.org: I've found a lot of broken links in search engines such as Google: E.g.: http://wordpress.org/support/11504 should be http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=11504. They seem to...

General

Fixed my RSS feeds

I had noticed today that my RSS feeds were working in my browser but FeedBurner and Feed Validator were reporting 404s. I did some searching and found bug 903 that recommended this change: --- wp-blog-header.php.2005-03-14-113423...

GtDProductivity

Research dashes

Found this great tip at a post at 43 folders: Research dashes - I keep a plaintext file with a long-ass list of stuff to learn, fix, or improve on my computer. Stuff like “learn Perl,” “find out why Mail crashes...

GeneralLinux

Freebie Linux machine

A while back Yahoo! had an event where they gave away spare, old computing equipment to employees for free. I picked up a Stackable Systems rackmount server with a Pentium 3 850 MHz and a 36 GB Seagate Cheetah drive. My hope was...

GtDProductivityThunderbird

Processing email

I used to get uncomfortable when my inbox required me to scroll. Lately, inspired by David Allen's Getting Things Done (GtD) methodology, I try to get my inbox to zero several times a day. Before you say, "I could never...",...

GeneralPerlProgramming

Got Zoidberg working

After quite a bit of futzing around, I got Zoidberg working. I had mentioned here that I had installed it, but that the cd command wasn't working. Well, here's what I did... (more…)...

General

grep with color

Wow, I didn't realize until today that good ol' GNU grep supports color highlighting. Up until now, I had been installing rgrep from the jed distribution everywhere so that I could get recursive grepping and highlighting. But GNU...