Category Archives: technology

Windows Genuine Safari

Posted on June 15, 2007 by David

Apple ported their browser, Safari, to Windows and released a public beta this week. Having heard great things about Safari from a web-standards perspective I got it and had a look. Aside from the standards compliance it was just a … Continue reading →

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Wireless Electricity

Posted on June 7, 2007 by David

I’ve always said that there should be a way to power devices wirelessly. Now MIT has proven that it can be done. Just think what that will mean for the world of mobile devices.

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Posting Rich Text Email

Posted on May 3, 2007 by David

I have created a hack for wp-mail.php that allows rich text emails to be processed. I call it wp-mail-rich. To use it you simply copy the wp-mail-rich.php file in the folder where WordPress is installed (where the wp-mail.php file is) … Continue reading →

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Behind The Caucus

Posted on May 3, 2007 by David

Random wanderings took me to the code view of the New York Times political blog – The Caucus. Like the Library of Congress blog, it is based on WordPress. They have modified it enough to make it difficult to detect, … Continue reading →

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Classic Posts

Posted on May 2, 2007 by David

I have been wanting to implement a “greatest hits” section in my sidebar ever since I read the lessons for would-be bloggers. Yesterday I discovered the classic posts plugin from Chris vs Chris which displays posts which you have designated … Continue reading →

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Twitter

Posted on May 2, 2007 by David

It seems that I can’t help but hear about Twitter. I’ve been hearing about it for a while from a number of people who’s technology opinions I respect. Again today I read more from Alan about Twitter. Twitter is one … Continue reading →

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Post by Email

Posted on April 26, 2007 by David

I finally have the Post-by-Email working in WordPress. There is one catch – the body of the post only shows up if the message is sent in plain text. No “rich formatting” or other high-and-mighty “My email client is better … Continue reading →

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WordPress(MU)

Posted on February 14, 2005 by David

I have been hoping to move to WordPress as a show of my support for Open Source Software, and to keep myself free of the constraints of the free license for Movable Type. So far those constraints have not been … Continue reading →

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OpenCD

Posted on January 13, 2005 by David

I moved to the University of Missouri and within two days I met one of my fellow students who introduced me to TheOpenCD. I have always been a proponent of free and open source software but not an activist. I … Continue reading →

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