Got VisiKnit back up - mostly. For some reason, I couldn’t get Wordpress to store a multi-line textarea correctly. It kept insisting on putting HTML break tags at the end of each line. Very weird. So VisiKnit is back, but the sample pattern is only one line.
Now I need to track [...]
They did it! Edwin and Annalie got married! The ceremony was simple and beautiful. They both looked great. As a groomsman, I had a perfect vantage point to see Annalie’s face throughout the ceremony. She was positively beaming. I’ve never seen her so happy.
Plus, I really hit it off [...]
I had to make a minor change to the blog yesterday because of relentless comment spam. Something was attacking my webserver and driving the load on it up to about 15. (A normal load is less than 1.) So you will observe now that if you want to submit a comment, you [...]
Blogging features:
*create new posts
*allow comments on posts
*upload images
*designate categories for posts
*ban irresponsible users
I don’t think I really need a templating engine. I barely use the one that comes with MT as it is. But if I need one, there are dozens available.
I finally got around to activating referer logs on my website. Now I can tell not only where people are coming from when they visit my site, but if they used a search engine I can tell what they were searching for.
I’m going to put in a script eventually that will display these searches [...]
Corri and her beau are leaving for very, very cold places this week. I delivered a hot pink caper hat to her earlier this week, and I’m finishing up a bowler-style stockinette for her finacé today. Pics later. Oops. I delivered the hats without photographing them. My bad.
I’ve also been [...]
I just realized that my comments have been dead for about two days. Sorry about that folks. It was a problem caused by the domain name change. Everything should be working again now.
Here’s a little bit of light technical insight into Sweater Project.
I use Moveable Type as my publishing system because Mark Pilgrim has published a lot of good material about it (and with it). Also, it’s an extensible system, so people like Brad Choate have been able to build some cool plugins for it, like [...]
Through the miracle of Moveable Type’s macros, if you type the word “panties” into a comment or post, this blog will now automatically create a link to a summary of the original quotes by Daphne, Michelle and Kaetchen regarding the word panties.
Just as an aside, you can tell you’re a computer programmer when rather [...]