Archives for November 2007

Make a sticky post in WordPress

Sometimes you want a Post to stick around for a while at the top of the Home Page, even while other posts come and go beneath it. For that you need WP-Sticky. Download the plugin and uncompress it to a folder called wp-sticky. Take the folder inside (sticky) and upload it to the plugins folder […]

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Apple finally gets NZ Daylight Savings Time right

It’s a good idea to keep your system software up to date. Even so, sometimes Apple lets us down, as they did with the change to daylight savings in New Zealand this year. (Daylight Savings early in 2007) Finally we have word that they’ve fixed the problem: Mac OS X: Adjusting Date & Time for […]

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The weather — in Google Earth

Fer heaven’s sake, will Google ever stop adding useful features to its products? Now I can find out what the weather is / will be, right in Google Earth: …a new weather layer. The layer includes radar information, current conditions, and forecasts pulled every 15 minutes from Weather.com and a cloud layer that updates hourly […]

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Writing, Word, Google Docs, Pages and BBEdit

Much of my work time these days is spent writing. Until maybe about a year ago I used TextEdit Plus, then I switched to BBEdit. When I’m writing I don’t want to be distracted with bold, and fonts and margins and bullet points — I just want to get the words out, in the right […]

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Saving Grace disappears; hooray for videocasts

About a month ago a new show popped up on TV3: Saving Grace. Wikipedia tells us: The plot focuses on Grace Hanadarko (Hunter), a chain smoking, binge drinking, promiscuous, adulterous, lying Oklahoma City police officer. Despite her many failings and her upbringing in a dysfunctional family, Grace is portrayed as a basically good person with […]

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At last: downtown recycling

When I’m out and about downtown, admittedly not so often these days, I get quite annoyed that I have to either drop stuff I’d normally recycle into a rubbish bin, or carry it round with me till I get home. That includes the odd glass or plastic bottle of orange juice, and the piles of […]

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Stats for WordPress

If you want to keep track of visitors to your blog, you’ll probably be interested in the WordPress.com Stats plugin. Set up for stats Download and install the plugin. Then go to WordPress.com and sign up for a username. Check your email for the API key. Now go back to your blog’s Dashboard, click on […]

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Move a WordPress blog to a new host

I’ve been moving The Groupings WordPress blog from one host to another. It’s surprisingly simple, but there were a couple of glitches. The blog has about 70 posts, half a dozen users, and half a dozen links in the Blogroll. Prepare the new server First I set up the new server — it has a […]

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The dirty side of (Second) Life

There’s an article in CTV.ca Virtual pedophilia in Second Life causes concern: Second Life is a virtual world created by — and home to — nine million internet users. A British investigator created a virtual personality for himself and began looking at Second Life’s enormous sex industry. Inside a virtual shopping centre he found a […]

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Make Apple characters

At macosxhints.com: A table of special Apple symbols and their values: a table of symbols used in OS X menus to represent special and modifier keys The table includes all the obvious characters such as Command and Option, and also the circle with arrow (Esc: ⎋), up and down arrows, Eject (⏏) etc. It also […]

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A link for Kiwi cat lovers

Our family includes two dogs and three cats — all a bit of a handful at times … Still, here’s a site to note: C is for Cats: ‘C is for Cats’ is a registered non-profit Charitable Trust, devoted solely to cats. We believe that increased knowledge and understanding is key to improving feline health […]

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Semantic HTML tips

Roger Johansson has some sensible and simple tips for semantic HTML — something we should all be doing — in his post POSH – Plain Old Semantic HTML. Here are just a couple, but head over to his post for the rest: Use heading elements (h1 – h6) for headings, and make sure they create […]

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