My list for 2009
I don’t see the point of having a single new year ‘resolution’. I’d rather list a bunch of stuff that I’d like to accomplish both professionally and personally .. so here’s my list broken down as such: Professional: C++ is here to stay, its not going to go away, I may as well get used [...]
Down time and updates
I’ve recently completed a rather hasty migration of the server that houses this blog, my primary e-mail and all of the source code repositories. Everything should be back to normal now, please let me know if something that you need is not working. In the coming week, I’m going to be diversifying things a bit [...]
Odd delays with G-Mail
I’ve been experiencing some odd delays with my G-Mail account, some messages have been arriving almost 2 days late. I’m sure this is something that will be fixed soon. In the meantime, I have set up a temporary address on this domain: tinkertim@echoreply.us Note, if you already have my regular address @echoreply, just continue to [...]
Monkey + Typewriter
A few people have asked me if my signature was inspired by code monkey. No, while I love and enjoy Jonathan’s creativity my signature dates back to the early 90′s. When using Waffle BBS, if you typed something incorrectly you would see: Monkey + Typewriter = (whatever you typed) If you do not remember the [...]
Whoopsie :)
While trying to get the kinks worked out of an automated database backup system based on ext3cow working, I accidentally broke the database that feeds this blog. No big tradgedy, one post and about 100 spam comments in the akismet queue are now linked to that big inode in the sky. Fortunately, I had just [...]
Echoreply is nofollow free :)
Since I have done quite a bit of hacking and tinkering on my WP code base, getting certain plug-ins working can be a bit of a chore. I’ve installed nofollow-free and it seems to be working rather well. Because I’ve changed many things in how my theme works, the pretty blue band at the top [...]
Some major surgery today :)
I’ve upgraded this blog to the latest version of WordPress, installed (and use) tags, then tagged every post in the archive (that took work). Neat stuff you can do: Click on any tag to find posts related to the tag Browse stuff to read by topic (in the column to your right) labeled “Read By [...]
