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WordPress can truncate Markdown

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Here’s a heads-up for Markdown users.

Looking through my Categories and Archives views, I was startled to see raw, unconverted Markdown syntax in certain posts. Tags:markdown wordpressShareThis

Desktop clients for WordPress

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Sitting in a bus, an Airbus, or your dentist’s office with a desperate yen to post, but you’re not on-line? I recommend two desktop apps, Zempt and w.Bloggar, for just this situation.

Both talk to WordPress through its XML-RPC interface. Both do the job well and are free. Tags:markdown wordpressShareThis

Tinkering the blog

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

I tweaked my WordPress by lightly altering Kubrick 1.2.6, a template built for WordPress 1.2. Porting this over to WordPress 1.5’s spiffy new code base was an unexpected treat. Wow. Sure, I had to substitute a couple tags and tweak the CSS, but that’s it. Everything just works.

OK, but how to add CSS tabs? This […]

Makeover

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

Did you notice? The new banner and colors?

I pulled Kubrick Template.psd into Photoshop, applied darker, warmer colors, and for the banner I cropped an image of red flowers taken during our first visit to Swanson’s Nursery two weekends back.

Funny how last October these modifications to the Kubrick template baffled me utterly. Layers? Masks? Multiply? OK, […]

Smarter posting in Firefox

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

I’m trying to write a little every day. Using WordPress from Firefox makes this less hard. My tips:

Use Firefox’s bookmark keywords. I hate having to navigate to my WordPress “Write Post” page when I want to write. So I bookmarked the page. Then I gave it the keyword, “w.” Now when I want to post, […]

Restarting the blog

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

OK, five months really can’t have passed, but obviously they have.

To summarize the now:

In three months I’m going to be a daddy—-a daddy! For USD40 today, I scored a Britax Roundabout car seat off Craigslist from the nicest couple. I have new Nikon D70 DSLR, and have nearly tamed a RAW workflow for it.

Tags:baby nikon […]

Seattle weblogs

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

I just added my site to Seattle Weblogs, Michael Montoure’s aggregate of Seattle-area bloggers. I look forward to seeing some of these folks over coffee (their Meetup group gathers every third Wednesday). Getting to know your neighbors never goes out-of-style. Tags:bloggers seattleShareThis

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