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Archive: October, 2004
WP plugin: Category Word Count
In regards to my upcoming November writing project, I'll be tracking word count for my story offline, but also wanted an automated running total in WordPress of all posts in the novel's category (in other words, the novel). It was something I had in Movable Type last year through use of a plugin. There are several plugins and hacks for WordPress that provide word count on a per-post or site-wide basis, but nothing I found that worked specifically on categories. So I wrote one. Naturally. (more...)
Novel adventure
Welcome to another example of why I should not be allowed near any computer with Internet access. Too late! Let's get the informational links out of ... (more...)
Rhetorical post
I'm off to the library! Don't wait up.
Actual proof doesn’t really prove anything
Folks like Dick Morris (I like it when people get the name they deserve) ask the important questions: How will we ever know ... (more...)
Residents of Hell take up ice skating
You may already know that the Boston Red Sox just won the World Series, a 4 game sweep against the St. Louis Cardinals. I'd voice my ... (more...)
That’s not what your wife told me in bed last night
The first commenter to appear at guff since going live here on szubNet, and don't you know it just had to be a heckler. ... (more...)
A country in north-central Africa
Why do I get the feeling we're going to hear a lot more stories about that Chad fellow this election year. Which reminds me of ... (more...)
We must like the people bombing us
The big story today is that hundreds of tons of high yield conventional explosives (mainly HMX and RDX---yeah, I don't know the acronyms either, ... (more...)
WP resource: Quick & Dirty PHPSource Printer
Before going public with the return of guff, I played in WordPress for a few weeks offline, to get comfortable and decide which features I wanted to put to use. During that time I worked over and reworked some WordPress plugins. It's how I like to get into trouble. And I rolled a few plugins of my own. Not examples of brilliant PHP programming mind you, but they work well enough that I've implemented them on guff. I'll be releasing the latest one to the wild (the first is a simple random "quote" utility, and I see no need for yet one more of those under a GPL). As I thought over how best to present my plugin, I decided I wanted the source on-site in prettified syntax highlighting for that cool factor, as well as stashed away in a zip file for easy download. In regards to the former, one option is to link to it as a PHP Source file (phps). Sadly, the server guff sits on isn't configured for it. Yeah, I'm bugging my provider, Ok? Another method is yet another plugin that can automagically generate syntax highlighting for me within a post. But if I want to output the code so one can actually read and copy it, I chance playing havoc with my layout, and that's not a Good Thing™. Even solving that, posting code in a blog post is best left for code fragments, and not several hundred lines of an entire script. That deserves it's own uncluttered page. (more...)
Even the wolves are voting for Kerry
They are American wolves, after all. Link. (What? You have seen, or at least heard about, the cute little puppies ad, haven't you? ... (more...)
Tool doesn’t work well? Blame tool user
When voters attack (or at least complain): Kim Griffith voted on Thursday---over and over and over...She went to Valle Del Norte Community Center in Albuquerque, ... (more...)