K’s Weblog

Pictures are worth a thousand words, or so the story goes.  When writing blog posts or any other kind of content on the Internet images are a big key to making the content more understandable and more interesting.  A great way to help manage the images that you use for your site is to make [...]

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Wordpress 2.5 is out, warts and all, for public consumption today.  Many users are opting to wait for a burn-in period to take place before taking the plunge.  Several major updates from Wordpress have had a point-release take place within days, usually to fix a security flaw.
I have installed it on the sandbox where I’m [...]

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I’ve been contemplating an update to the look of the blog for several months now.  I know it’s only had the current incarnation since the summer, but I’ve always liked things to feel new and fresh.
The trouble had been finding the right WP theme.  Many of the ones I like visually didn’t have enough support [...]

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Until such time as I can find a viable (read: worthwhile) ad service to help offset the costs of the blog, I will no longer be subjecting readers to ads on the blog.
After nearly 9 months of Google Adsense, I’ve managed $3.56.  Since Google requires $100 in your account before they will pay out, I’m [...]

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For the next couple of weeks I’ll be filling in for a friend of mine over at Ho Yummy, a food review blog with a Vancouver slant.  The site’s owner Gigi is a good friend of mine and she’s taking a few weeks off.
I’ve always been a bit of an “admin” guy… ever since I [...]

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Today when I checked my email I was given a rather pleasant surprise.  A comment on one of my blog posts from the folks at Flickr Fight.
Hi,
we considered this blog post as a claim and updated our site.
Now we are giving a reference and link to photographer under full sized photos.
Thank you
Flickr Fight Team
Great News!  [...]

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This is a topic I’ve been considering for some time now. Many of you (who don’t use an ad-blocker) will have noticed that late last year I began experimenting with placing ads on the blog. The idea behind this was the “get-the-blog-to-pay-for-itself” mentality that most of us go through when we realize that [...]

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Recently some of you may have noticed some instability with the theme on this blog. The theme on the blog seemed to reset to the WordPress default without any rhyme or reason. I assumed it was one of the many plugins I had installed to try to provide additional content or functionality [...]

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Well after a far more successful 2007 than I could have imagined, I’ve released the first significant feature update to the Admin Links Widget.
First, THANK YOU to everyone who has downloaded the widget.  It has been downloaded an astonishing 2300 times since the inaugural release on August 14th of last year.
The most significant changes for [...]

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Here’s a real-life example of how scope creep can absolutely kill a project you’re working on. I tend to find that this particular phenomenon tends to take hold of my projects on a regular basis, and I’ve been actively trying to combat it for quite a while now.
The project in question was a very [...]

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