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.
But fear not, if you subscribe to my [...]

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I just finished the ugprade to Wordpress 2.7. I was more careful than usual given the big update (normally I just overwrite the files, this time I actually followed the instructions), but everything apparently went fine. I really like the new admin screen, it’s much cleaner and clearer. Please let me know if you find [...]

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For a long time, I have automatically posted my delicious.com bookmarks, using the most excellent Postalicious Wordpress plugin. However, now that my FriendFeed feed is in the sidebar, this seems redundant. The FF feed includes not only the bookmarks, but a lot of other activity, such as my Google Reader shared items, additions to my [...]

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I have installed the Intense Debate plugin for handling comments on this blog. Not that there are that many comments , just to see how it works. I think it’s nice that it automatically synchronizes comments two ways to the regular WP comments, so that if you disable it, all the comments are still [...]

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I have just configured things so that my RSS feed is served through FeedBurner. I am using a Wordpress plugin so that the redirection should be transparent (here’s the FB url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrT), but if you notice anything broken, please let me know.
Of course, I haven’t posted anything in so long that I wonder if anyone [...]

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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](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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