I’ve succumbed to the Micro Blogging movement. I figure it’s a little easier to keep people posted on various topics by posting a tweet rather than adding a new blog post for small items of information or links. Fell free to follow @allmybrain. I added a Twitter widget to Wordpress as well, [...]

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Many of my posts have some sort of code, shell script, or other syntax highlighted portion. I’ve loved the code highligher plugin for wordpress. The version I’ve been using (1.8) doesn’t seem to have had any updates for quite some time. The only reason that bothers me in the slightest is that [...]

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I just updated all my blogs to Wordpress 2.7. I like the new admin interface. The upgrade was pleasantly easy and quick.

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I’m tired of comment spam. I guess my blog has grown to a popular enough size that I’m known by just enough bots to make things annoying.
The next plugin I’ll be trying out is WP-SpamFree. If you can’t post a comment, use my contact form to let me know there is an issue.
WP-SpamFree [...]

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Sometimes you get used to doing things one way and you forget to take a step back now and then and see if there isn’t something you’re missing. In my case, I was formatting source code on this blog by putting html non-breaking spaces and < codes for angle brackets etc. Ouch. [...]

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digg_url = “http://digg.com/programming/How_to_fix_the_Digg_Tools_JavaScript_for_Wordpress”;

If you have a wordpress blog and you’ve ever had a popular enough post to have it posted to Digg.com, you might be tempted to paste the digg tools javascript into your post to integrate your site with the digg post. The first thing you noticed after you got the post edited [...]

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