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I have been giving Twitter another good try lately, and I’m actually liking it. I think the trick is to collect a good group of entertaining/interesting/weird people to follow. It’s been fun so far, and I have actually reconnected with a couple of old acquaintances through Twitter. In any case, if anyone is interested, you [...]

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I have upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.3.1. Everything went fine! I have converted all my categories to tags, you should see a tag cloud where the categories list used to be. I manually added support for displaying tags to the theme I’m using, and modified it to correctly display the “Linky” entries based on [...]

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Are pull-quotes useful? I don’t know, but they sure look good. I just installed and enabled the Fancy Pull Quotes plugin, just to try it out. Are pull-quotes useful? I don’t knowMaybe I’ll start using it to improve the appearance of my posts, or just to be silly.

Update: looking at the original version of [...]

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I had been using the del.icio.us widget included with the widgets distribution to produce the “my del.icio.us” section in the sidebar. Today I discovered that del.icio.us also provides a javascript snippet that you can include to produce exactly the same output, so I have disabled the del.icio.us plugin and inserted the javascript in a new Text widget.

The problem? The del.icio.us code [...]

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I’m trying out the Sphere Wordpress plugin, so you will see a link at the bottom of most posts. If you click on it, it’s supposed to find related things on the web. In my tests so far, the things it finds do not seem very relevant, but I’ll let it there for a bit [...]

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I just finished the transition of this blog (and other domains owned by me and Susana) from a server hosted at home to a proper server at a hosting facility, shared with our friends Annie and Tadek. Everything seems to have gone well, including migration of web and mail services. There shouldn’t be any visible [...]

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I finally took the plunge and updated my site to Wordpress 2.1 (2.1.1 in fact). The upgrade went quite well, nothing broke significantly. I also updated to the latest version of the excellent Cutline theme. I also used the opportunity to clean up my list of plugins (many I had enabled for testing, but not [...]

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I’ve been making some more small changes to the look of my site. I really like the Cutline theme, and there is a lot of useful information at its web site. The latest two changes I have made are the Google ads in the header image and the site map, both of which you can [...]

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Only now I have started playing with Wordpress widgets. One nice thing is that as long as you are using widget-aware themes, the structure of your sidebar remains the same throughout theme changes.

I noticed that the widget-configuration GUI doesn’t work perfectly with Safari. The widgets in the sidebar representation sometimes appear mangled, and the [...]

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I’m playing with new themes and some other changes on this site. If you find some things broken, please bear with me, the dust should settle soon.

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