I’ve been using the Smart Archives plugin for a year to make a pretty and complete archive page for the site.
I just switched to Smart Archives Reloaded (author’s site). It works just as well and now updating my posts is much faster. The way the original Smart Archives plugin works, when you click “Publish” in WordPress, the user has to wait until the new archives page is generated before continuing. Now it’s done in the background. A 20 second wait is now 5 seconds :-)
Thanks to the magic of open source, a really good plugin has been made even better :-)
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schuyler: leather gloves make typing haRD. I CAN SEE WHY DR. HORRIBle goes fr the video blog. sorry caps. this is hard
Lee Sonko: hahah!
Lee Sonko: I need photos!
I just installed the NoSpamNX comment spam plugin. Hopefully it will reduce the daily drudgery of me deleting all the inane comment spam I get. Each week I have to remove 5-20 spams that make it through Akismet. And I have 1,500 comment spams that Akismet caught from the last 15 days sitting in my spam box. Hopefully that number will decrease.
I installed the Tomato firmware on my WRT54GL about 15 minutes ago. I was clenching my teeth, preparing for a long slog through the trenches of firmwaredom but I got a very pleasant surprise!
Installation was:
download
install firmware
set the SSID and password
I was up in 5 minutes! W00t!
Now I’m wandering through the configuration and it all “just works”. I am very happy. I think I might have to make a donation to the project.
The main reason I needed to upgrade was that the Linksys firmware has this asinine problem: you can open specific ports in the firewall for services like FTP and VNC but you can’t set static DHCP IP addresses with the server, you’ve got to muck with the client computer’s settings. That is dumb. All the open source firmware does it, DD-WRT, Open-WRT etc… but Tomato promised to do it EASILY. And it succeeded.
Who buys lab coats? Open up Amazon.com and search for “lab coat”. Pick the first one.
Let’s take a look see… (right-click and open the image in a new window to view full screen)
What is that down at the bottom? Down where it says “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought”… Are those lab goggles? No. Are they pipettes? No! They are welding goggles. Welding goggles? Who could possibly need welding goggles with their lab coat??? I’ll tell you who!
To view my local copy, you should right-click on the image below and view it in another window, or download it or something. I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
Read more about Tom Kennedy and Haideen Anderson’s vehicle art on TomKennedyArt.com
I was asked today by a friend to write down “one thing you saw today that made you smile”. Here is what I wrote:
I walked to the new Whole Foods supermarket in Noe Valley. I walked around quite a bit and found myself in the back at the meat and fish department. I smiled at the whole scene. There was a young mother with 2 kids draped on her shopping cart waiting in line. She, along with others in the line stood and waited; she looked uncomfortable at being in line and uncomfortable, somehow in her life situation. She didn’t know if she was doing things the “right” way, going to Whole Foods, spending the money on organic food instead of conventional, having kids, waiting in line. The scene looked familiar, it looked like a scene I was in when I was a child. There wasn’t a right answer then, or now. I smiled because, in knowing that there is no answer, I know the answer to her worries.
