"Murphy was an optimist!"
WordPress 2.9 has arrived December 19, 2009 8:46 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Announcements, Blog, Of Interest, Publishing, Software, Technology, WordPress , add a commentWordPress 2.9 includes built-in image editing and now videos can be embedded simply by putting the url of the video on its own line in the post with Oembed support and more. Update your WordPress blog soon.
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add a commentCathy wants me on the icy roof December 5, 2009 11:59 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cathy, Christmas, Daily Life, Family, Holiday, Of Being Dad, Publishing, Video , add a comment add a commentWibiya Toolbar Not Showing on Wordpress Blog November 20, 2009 11:47 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Blog, Publishing, Software, Technology, WordPress , 1 comment so farIf you are trying to use the Wibiya Toolbar on your Wordpress blog, but it will not appear, try editing the Wibiya plugin and changing the code from:
add_action(‘get_footer’, ‘filter_footer’);
to:
add_action(‘wp_footer’, ‘filter_footer’);
Free Album from Nine Inch Nails October 17, 2009 6:10 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Music, Of Interest, Publishing , add a commentSeveral artists, including Coldplay (download leftrightleftrightleft here), have figured out that giving music away is a good thing for them and their fans. NIN released its 2008 album The Slip under a Creative Commons license (see FAQ for more info) and made it freely downloadable (here) in several formats including MP3, M4a, and several "better than CD quality" formats. For anything other than MP3 you will need to use a BitTorrent client such as the original client or many people’s favorite, uTorrent, or choose from this list comparing clients.
See also: This looks like a well thought out abstract by Michael Pfahl on Giving Music Away to Make Money. I have only skimmed it so I’m not entirely sure what points are made.
add a commentDads, journals, cliques and swag October 5, 2009 12:03 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Blog, Publishing , add a commentNow Dads can have drama and swag too! Move over Blogher. The Dad Blogs Convention has arrived.
add a commentHey Alan,Alan,Alan,Alan,Alan,Alan… August 16, 2009 10:01 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Humor, Of Interest, Video , add a comment add a commentWordPress 2.8.3 broken! Upgrade to 2.8.4 immediately! August 13, 2009 7:11 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Blog, Publishing, Security, Software, Technology, WordPress , add a commentIn case you missed it, WordPress 2.8.3 has a programming error which allows anyone to reset your administrative password and takeover your WordPress blog. With administrative access, the hacker could destroy your content, lock you out, and repurpose your website for wrong doing, spamming, pornography, slander, or whatever they want. Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4 immediately! Learn more at darknet.org.uk.
This vulnerability could be prevented by securing the /wp-admin directory.
BlogSecurity has recommended before that the /wp-admin/* directory should be password protected or restricted to IP address. This would mitigate this problem. See our advisory here for details. [Source, BlogSecurity, WordPress <= 2.8.3 Reset Admin Password Vulnerability]
See details of the exploit at milw0rm.
add a commentDave Winer Hits One Home August 10, 2009 9:06 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Blog, Communications, Publishing, Technology , add a commentFrom the beginning I’ve described social media (mostly under the guise of Twitter) as a large party. You enter the scene. You hear a lot of noise. You focus on some conversations and it gets exciting. You still hear a lot of noise. You make some friends. You bond. You make some people angry with flippant remarks. You lose some friends. You shout at the crowd. Everyone talks about you. You step off your soapbox and rejoin the conversation. Everyone forgets you. You step out of the room to go to the bathroom. When you return, you find the conversation continued without you. You try to get people to tell you what you missed. Eventually you figure out you just have to pickup where you left off. You learn that you cannot follow everyone in the room. You realize that even though you aren’t following everyone in the room some of those people are still listening to you. Some people get to stand on the stage and everyone follows them. You think it is unfair that you aren’t on the stage. You meet some of the right people but still aren’t lucky enough to get on the stage. You don’t understand. You resent the people on the stage. You decide to ignore them. The conversation goes on. Eventually you follow the people on the stage again because everyone else is talking about what they said. The conversation goes on. Eventually we all return home.
Dave Winer, you know, the guy who brought us RSS, explains here.
So what is, what was, FriendFeed? Let’s say FriendFeed was that room at the party were the people who started the party hung out and other party goers would look in the room and see that it was different but couldn’t really grasp if it was different good or different bad and most would never really enter that room. In the words of Eric Rice, "the punk rock indie era is over." Facebook bought FriendFeed today. I won’t comment further but to say I agree with Think Jose that Facebook bought the staff, not the software. But this was about Dave Winer’s post to Robert Scoble.
Btw, you should follow me on Twitter here.
ps. Not great words of assurance:
add a commentWhat does this mean for my FriendFeed account?
FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. [Source, FriendFeed Blog, FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request]
1994 Was a Long Time Ago – Fix your website! July 29, 2009 11:14 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Publishing, Technology , 3commentsI need to offer some professional advice to some of you. 1994 was a long time ago. Some things your website should NOT be doing:
- do not resize my browser!
- do not automatically play music or videos! If you insist on doing this, do not loop the music/video and definitely do give me the ability to stop or pause the obnoxiousness.
- do not tell me your website is under construction! Your website should be an ever changing, living, breathing entity. Either hide the elements/pages that are not ready for prime time or put them up as-is and change them when ready. You should have a development server hidden from the public, a staging server which a limited amount of public eyes (testers) can see, and a production server that is live to the world. At the bare minimum you should have a development server and a production server. Never make changes directly on your production server.
Thank you.
3commentsFor my wife. Who really has a thing for spiders. July 25, 2009 8:16 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cathy, Daily Life, Family, Philosophy, Publishing, Video , add a commentI warn you. Watching this will forever change your life…uh…yeah…Well…maybe not but once you press play you won’t be able to stop watching.
add a commentSpidey’s in da house! June 29, 2009 10:04 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, Family, Of Being Dad, Publishing, Video , add a comment add a commentWhose da favorite?! June 19, 2009 3:13 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Humor, Publishing, Video , add a comment add a commentSheriff Hunts Someone from the Air June 14, 2009 11:04 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Of Interest, Publishing, Video , 2commentsYesterday a low flying sheriff’s helicopter circled over our house several times. We believe they thought a criminal was in the creek. Roughly 45 minutes later, the police scanner reported apprehending someone at the Weigel’s nearest our house and the helicopters (there were at least 2) went away. When it took the most direct path over our house I had the video camera paused and missed the best shot. This video mostly shows trees.
A couple of things you will hear in this video:
- "they must be 100′ off the ground" – okay. exaggeration and not well seen in this video. The first video I tried shooting, and had the dog gone thing paused, was when they flew directly overhead and it did look much lower
- "could it be drugs" – the DEA flies helicopters over these parts frequently during prime growing season but usually they are over the farms and properties along the river.
The person they were hunting was caught about 45 minutes later 1/4-1/2 mile from my house
2commentsNews Sentinel tries hard sell for old ways in Walgreens June 10, 2009 11:40 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Publishing , 4commentsI ran into Walgreens hoping for the world’s quickest pickup of a product that I now know you have to buy at Target and was accosted at the door.
Sales guy, holding out Walgreens printed circular (the bait): "Would you like this week’s ads?"
Me, no I don’t because I came in for a single product but being a dumb human (the nibble): "Sure."
Sales guy (the hook): "Would you like a Walgreens gift card?"
Me, quickly noting the stack of News Sentinel papers (the denial): "No thank you. I don’t need a paper."
Sales guy (the switch): "Are you sure you don’t want a News Sentinel?"
Me (attempted escape): "I read it online."
Sales guy (the lie): "At only 38 cents a day, there’s value in the print edition you can’t get online."
Me (the truth): "Honestly, I’m never going to read a paper ever again." (and I won’t pay for it online either)
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You know who would love this? My grandma! [Source, The Daily Show's Jason Jones, End Times 2:41-2:46]
Thanks to Cathy for pointing to the video!
4commentsMy past 10 years summed up in 2 minutes 19 seconds May 29, 2009 11:51 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Publishing, Video , add a commentSee at Catch Up Lady Blog.
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