Archive for October, 2009

Free Money

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

My  mom generally regards me as having poor financial management. Whether that is true is in the eye of the beholder. Part of what I have done in getting where I am financially is to take advantage of opportunities to get things for free.

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Broken Link Reporting

Friday, October 30th, 2009

In the prior incarnation of my site, I had a 404 handler that reported broken links to me so that I can set up an appropriate redirection to the intended content. Until today, that functionality was missing in WordPress. However, I found a plugin that brings that functionality to WordPress.

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Hope

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Tonight, I watched The Astronaut Farmer. On the surface, the movie is about a man building a rocket and going to space. But with any depth beyond that surface, the movie is about hope and not giving up on it.

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Now with CDN Goodness

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Portions of the site now come through the Coral CDN. That should ehlp the page load faster.

Quieter Updating

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I tweaked the settings on the plugin that notifies Facebook, MySpace, and other sites that I have posted a new article. They should now only post new status messages when a post is published or updated. The notifications that a post is started or saved should no longer occur.

Friendship

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Over the past several weeks, I have been working at a full time job on the other side of the city. When you add the commuting time to the time at work, I am gone for about eleven hours of the day. When I return home, I can feel tired and just want to lay down. Something I have missed in this though is friendship.

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Deadlocks in Internet Explorer

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

I have been encountering deadlocks in Internet Explorer according to the Windows 7 Resource Monitor. More than likely, this is related to some sort of extension that I added recently that is not written correctly. Anyhow, I will be receiving Windows 7 Ultimate soon and will be reinstalling so it probably isn’t worth diving too much into debugging what is going on. The Analyze Wait Chain functionality is nice though for determining why a program is not responding.

A third and hopefully last test

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

This is a test using a different plugin that updates social network statuses through Ping.fm. This plugin seems like a keeper for now.

Second Test

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

This is a second test of a Facebook notifier plugin. I decided I did not like this plugin.

Testing Status Updates

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

I installed a plugin to push status updates to Twitter and Facebook and so forth. This is a test to see if it is configured correctly. I decided I did not like this plugin.