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Category Archives: Internet
Cool Find and Replace using regexp
So I saved an Excel file as a tab-separated text file. Then I wanted to add some html. The first column was all numbers followed by a tab and the second column. I opened the text file in Dreamweaver and … Continue reading
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Now running WordPress 2.8 Beta 2
The process of upgrading to the newest beta wasn’t terribly difficult. The instructions in the codex were easy enough. But I’m not seeing any great improvements. I still have to install the “disable canonical redirects” plugin. This seems to be … Continue reading
Another helpful innovation from Internet Explorer
If an add-on is hosing Internet Explorer, you have to run Internet Explorer WITH ADD-ONS ENABLED in order to manage your add-ons. McAfee Site Advisor is completely hosing a friend’s Acer Aspire. I advised installing Firefox, and somehow Site Advisor … Continue reading
Hacked again
The blog was hacked again. Now I’m upgraded to wordpress 2.7. I hope I’m secure
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Almost killed the blog
So I tried to upgrade my WordPress version. Didn’t go well. Partly my fault, partly poor WordPress documentation. The readme says something like “back up files like index.php that you modified” They could have at least mentioned the config files.
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Firefox 3 – enhanced cookie protection?
Since I downloaded Firefox 3, my Webroot Spy Sweeper finds far few cookies to quarantine than before. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Yahoo User Interface Library
I recently posted on arcster.com an example of a layout using CSS provided by the Yahoo User Interface library. This graphic shows the inheritance and nesting more clearly than the code. Happy div-ing!
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Follow up on the Lorain County Ohio CenturyTel DSL outage
Although the outage was frustrating, I must give credit to Ken Phillips of CenturyTel, who actually found my blog posting and sent me an email!
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I found a bug!
I discovered a bug in Google Calendar. (In Firefox anyway; didn’t test on IE.) When you include a named day in an event, the day gets dropped and the event gets moved for the next week. So when I added … Continue reading
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