BrT

As part of the big move, I have decided to close BrT. This site will remain up for reference, but I will make no new posts after this one, and shortly the Wordpress engine will disappear from behind the scenes and the site will become a static mirror.
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I saw an article on wprecipes.com describing how to display a random header image in a Wordpress blog. While the code shown works, it is a bit verbose and hard to maintain, so I thought I’d show how the random image in the header of this blog is done.
Note: you may need to adjust some [...]

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In one of my private blogs, I use the excellent IImage Gallery plugin to show photographs. After the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5, all of the posts with galleries started failing by showing the message “There is no gallery in this post”. After puzzling about it for a while, I realized that this plugin uses the [...]

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To use the new Wordpress 2.3 tags system with ecto, so you can set tags using the ecto side panel, the ecto configuration has to be changed from the default. The instructions are found in the ecto support forum (these instructions apply only to ecto3 – I don’t know how to do it for ecto2, [...]

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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](http://automattic.com/code/widgets/) to produce the “my
del.icio.us” section in the sidebar. Today I discovered that
del.icio.us also provides a [javascript
snippet](http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls) 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 have been wanting to learn [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/), and
I recently started playing with [FUSE](http://fuse.sourceforge.net/), for
creating file systems in user space in Unix.
And a couple of days ago, [Marcel](http://marcel-g.homeip.net/) asks
me if I knew of any blogging client that would allow complete offline
editing of the posts as files, and then synchronize them. That was
enough to plant the seed [...]

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I’m not commonly one to participate in chain-letter-like things, but I find this one cute: I have been blog-tagged by Raffy Marty. So I have to tell you five little-known things about myself. Without further ado, here they are:

I have an IMDB entry. Yup, that’s actually me. If you are curious enough to follow the [...]

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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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