As the discussion on Snipsnap to WordPress implies, I am having another look at using XSLT to convert my old snipsnap dump to WRX. Links man xsltproc tizag’s xslt Tutorial, I like this one. filtering with xslt quackit’s xslt tutorial, not as good as tizag’s, IMHO W3 Schools on XSLT Another tutorial from from edutech…
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Time to revise this page. It was originally created to document the runes on how to use the delicious provided javascript linkroll generator, it then covered the slow and painful death of the service and my attempts to postpone the inevitable. In late 2019, I found my backup copy and posted it to the blog,…
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Snipsnap offered multiple look and feels and for the advanced CSS coder, offered many opportunities to manage itl. My changes were relatively simple. In fact it might have been Snipsnap that took me to Blue Robot which influenced me a lot.
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I have listened to Stop 43, and the British Journal of Photography I have read what Tim Bray has to say and decided I may need to ensure that my picture’s EXIF data is accurate. You can’t give away what you don’t own, and it seems you need to assert ownership of pictures. The way…
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Checking out another Dell for a friend. I want a laptop and docking bay.
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The RSS buttons are much harder to find in the new look Flickr.
Read moreWith Office 2010, the location of the “My Templates” folder for Excel is managed using Word’s Options dialogue box, and it seems that you can no longer specify a search path, solely one folder. What Microsoft say at answers.microsoft.com!
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I need to upgrade the Mac. The O/S version is getting a bit long in the tooth. I have V10.5, Leopard, I need to get to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Here are my, now deprecated, notes and links.
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Liferay is an open source, free portal server written in Java. 2022 One of the links broke, so I went to their site and checked out the developer page‘ the code is still there. How to They had a Quick Start page which illustrates a 4 step how to get started process. This is the…
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I came across these links when trying to recover a Windows 7 system which had been “upgraded”. This was made in 2013 and marked as deprecated in 2023. We had lost the one admin user password and a shell had been installed in the Admin user.
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Ars Technica report an attack on WordPress sites. Here is a google search, looking for their coverage, and here is the Ars Technica security home page.
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I have been tidying up my desktop and web sites, and discovered that Google’s tools consider the subdomains, including this wiki as separate sites. There’s obviously some more work to do for some simple SEO work. Both the sub domains are wordpress sites.
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AS the big boy’s look to enclose our content, the architecture I articulated in Are Blogs losing their influence has been broken, badly. I originally used Friendfeed & mingle as my aggregators but it’s a bit tricky I have documented IFTT on this wiki and Feedly on my blog, they ahve led me to the following…
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The site, “If this then that” offers trigger actions as a web service. It works with recipes and channels. Recipes are the “if this then that” relationship, and channels define the this and that.
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I have just installed Social Login on this site, some of the authentication services, not surprisingly require a setup process, most of which I have not done. Created in 2013, but not maintained. …
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