It seems like lilacs are in the news – tomorrow being Mother's Day, it's also apparently Lilac Sunday. There was a long piece on public radio show Living on Earth yesterday morning about how climate researchers use lilacs, because they're budding and blooming earlier and earlier. At lunch yesterday, the little florist's shop at work had lilacs or was using lilac scent as a part of a naturalistic display. As I walked past, there were a bunch of deliveries set out ready to go in the hall, probably for Mother's Day gifts. It was a little overwhelming – it's funny…
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Bush Says He’s Open to Iraq Bill With Benchmarks – New York Times
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Say this three times fast. Repeat when things start to get to you. Big cat baby boom keeps zoo busy – Yahoo News Also: saying "Big baby cat boom!" makes me laugh. Coping skills really help with stress! [tags]baby tiger[/tags]
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Using Custom Fields « WordPress Codex I haven't been able to figure this feature out, but I'd like to get it working if possible. This tutorial makes it sound so easy, like the jitterbug, but it plum eluded me the last time I tinkered with it. Supposedly, you can get it to do all kinds of things, but the simplest are adding moods and "Currently Reading" and such. Here is an example of what this information might look like on your post: Currently Reading: Calvin and Hobbes Today's Mood: Jolly and Happy Usage Based upon our example above, let's put…
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ARGH. I DO NOT WANT to go through that again. Well, if you would like to click the PHOTOS link on the menu to the upper left, you will see that I finally got Flickr Photo Album by Joe Tan configured to play pretty well with my current theme, WP-Andreas01-12 for WordPress. It was… not a pretty process. With David’s help, I had to edit or have him edit several files, have him delete a line of code so that only my own sets are “fetched” from Flickr, and not every public group I belong to, fix a persistent bug that’s been…
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This is the closest approximation I can find to what was "liberated" for me at work: It needs a power cord (though there may be one already at the desk it's at that fits) and probably needs new ink cartridges. No telling if it works – would need a phone/data cable to attempt to hook it up. The pillager who found it for me mentioned in passing that the "fax part is busted." We'll see about that once I get a chance to find the online documentation. Buy supplies for Officejet 6110 direct from the HP Home &…
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Pioneer US astronaut dies aged 84 Sad news… I hope that a new generation of space pioneers goes back to the Moon and beyond, but they'll follow in Schirra's footsteps for the first part of their journey.
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This little item caught my eye: CW Blog: Irregular Blogging by Irregular Writers …: Urning Potential Evidently, the editors at the Provo Daily Herald have realized how useless online surveys are and have just whimsically started asking whatever nonsense questions pop into their heads. Here’s this week’s bizarre poll: Which statement best describes your view on cremation? ( ) Makes resurrection difficult; cremation should be avoided ( ) Cremation should be encouraged; God doesn’t care … because, of course, there are people in the United States who, after much thought, have realized that cremation is just a huge incovenience…
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Well, I don’t know if ecto can help with YouTube videos showing in my feed, or if I should use WordPress’ custom field for that. Guess not, at least for now: And the WordPress custom field didn’t work for me either, though I know nothing about how to use it. I do know that the automatic enclosure WP used to wrap around media URLs is reportedly not working for some people, though I don’t know much about that either. I suppose this latest version of ecto – 2.3.3 – has some other nifty features that I’ll discover later. All my…
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This was not one of my better weeks. I found myself spinning in place, buried in paper, trying to adapt to this new process at work for handing a whole new division of our main client – a division that’s completely and never will be, because they won’t ever have company corporate cards. This forces us into an untenable situation – arrange travel (mostly hotels, some air, a few cars) that is completely paid for by the the division, and handle all of these reservations not by phone, but by forms that are either faxed or emailed as attachments to…