I submitted a comment to the IEDR's PDP comment thing earlier today. In the interests of transparency here it is in its entirety. Thank you for offering us the opportunity to submit comments on the policy development process We are a significantly affected party with respect to any and all potential changes to IEDR policy and process and so welcome the opportunity to be … [Read more...] about IEDR PDP Comments
Skimlinks And Vbulletin Upgrades
If you use Skimlinks and upgrade your Vbulletin install you might discover that some things are broken.Here's an explanation of why and how to fix it.I've been bitten by this a couple of times! … [Read more...] about Skimlinks And Vbulletin Upgrades
Farewell Oscar
Image by blacknight via FlickrOn Friday afternoon I found out that Oscar, my cat, was dead.I've never been overly sentimental about pets.Oscar lived outside and treated me as a source of food. He pretty much treated the entire neighbourhood as a cafe and used to get fed by a lot of different people.I guess what upset me was that he was probably poisoned - whether accidentally … [Read more...] about Farewell Oscar
Movable Type To WordPress Permalink Oddness
For some bizarre reason the Wordpress importer changes the post names from "thing-other-thing" to "thing_other_thing" ie. replacing the dash with an underscore.The simplest way to fix it is to run a bit of SQL directly on the database:update wp_posts set post_name = replace(post_name,'_','-');Thanks to the person who provided the solution here … [Read more...] about Movable Type To WordPress Permalink Oddness
TimThumb and Zemanta Don’t Play Nice Together
Over the last few days I've been testing a few Wordpress themes that use TimThumb for generating thumbnails of both images and video.TimThumb works very well in most situations, though you can run into the odd issue if your directory permissions aren't correct. In order for it to work it has to have somewhere it can store the thumbnail images.. and that has to be writeable by … [Read more...] about TimThumb and Zemanta Don’t Play Nice Together