Monthly Archives: August 2007

“Fan error”

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Lloyd

My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily. Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!

Posted in PC, Victoria | Tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, Linux, microsoft windows, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows | 18 Comments

I Want To Be PHP Dangerous

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Lloyd

Although, I’m surrounded by PHP masters, and PHP programming isn’t in my job description, I want to be at least “PHP dangerous”.

Posted in Collaborating, WordPress, Work | Tagged development environment, ide, php, programming, programming language, small company, startup, web programming | 8 Comments

WordPress 2.3 Beta!

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Lloyd

The final month of WordPress 2.3 development is upon us! Download the first beta of 2.3!

Posted in WordPress | Tagged development, Open Source, Testing, WordPress, WordPress.com | 2 Comments

Users, Customers, Members

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Lloyd

I dislike being called a “user” almost as much as I dislike being called a “consumer”.

Posted in Community, Computing | 7 Comments

And when migrating WordPress you have to remember this. I spend some of my time helping people migrate to WordPress from other blogging platforms or helping them move between hosts. All text on computers is encoded. There is no such … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | Tagged ASCII, Character encoding, DB_CHARSET, DB_COLLATE, Text encoding, UTF-8, WordPress | 2 Comments

Flushing Blue Toilet Cleaner of Death!

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Lloyd

Microsoft, after finding that the blue screen of death wasn’t having the same amount of market “penetration”, and since the hourglass cursor had never been as successful as Apple Mac OS X’s Spinning Beach Ball of Death , for Windows … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing | Tagged Apple.com, Mac OS X, Macintosh, MacOS x, microsoft, operating system, vista, windows, windows vista | 18 Comments

Code Rush!

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Lloyd

I met up with friend, former colleague, and current Flocker Richard Phan to watch the hour documentary Code Rush last night.

Posted in Firefox, Flock, Open Source | Tagged Brendan Eich, Ellen Ullman, Frank Hecker, Jamie Zawinski, Jim Barksdale, Jim Roskind, Marc Andreessen, Michael Toy, Mike Shaver, Mitchell Baker, Scott Collins, Stuart Parmenter, Tara Hernandez, Terry Weissman | 4 Comments

Little Ones

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Lloyd

While in Vancouver Saturday Julia and I also visited Nadia and Andrew Frost and their wonderful one week old baby boy, Maxime.

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BarCamp Vancouver

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Lloyd

A day late, but not a dollar short — its a free event… well, I donated $20; it was either that or get one of the pink shirts BarCamp Vancouver sessions are in full swing. Generously hosted at Workspace — … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaborating, Communicating | Tagged barcamp, barcampvancouver2007, unconference, vancouver | 5 Comments

Why does WordPress treat spam comments nicer than other moderated comments?

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Lloyd

I think I just accidentally deleted a comment in WordPress moderation. The irony struck me, that if I had accidentally marked it as spam, then I could have rescued it from the Spam queue. WordPress lead developer Mark Jaquith has … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, WordPress | 11 Comments