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  • Display Chinese Characters in WordPress

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    Chinese characters show up by default in WordPress as ???. In order to show them properly, you’ll need to edit the following lines in the wp-config.php file: Comment out the lines by adding two forward slashes at the beginning of each line: Et voila! Well, you may need to re-publish your posts, but the Chinese…

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  • WordPress Users on Dreamhost: Upgrade PHP

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    For the past few days, I’ve noticed that my sites were running EXTREMELY slow. I hadn’t made any changes so I checked the server’s side. I noticed that all my domains were still running on PHP 5.2.x, which was not recommended. Not sure if this was the reason why my sites were slowed to a…

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  • How to change your WordPress admin username

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    So after my post on why you should change your WordPress admin username, my friend Brad asked me how to go about changing it. So here’s a brief run down. Log in to your WordPress admin area. In the Users menu, click on “add new”. Fill in the info for the new user account.  You’ll…

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  • WordPress Security: change admin username

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    In 2012, my site was exploited, along with many other wordpress sites using outdated versions of TimThumb, a popular PHP-based image resizer. Apparently, their main goal was to use our sites as launch pads to go after major U.S. banks. After clearing out all the junk, I tried using a WordPress plugin called BulletProof Security, and everything seemed…

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  • WordPress 3.5 issue

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    Since upgrading to WordPress 3.5, I had trouble on one of my sites where I couldn’t add links, media or edit in text mode. I found a fix by adding this in the wp-config.php (above ‘stop editing here’): define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false); From the WordPress Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Disable_Javascript_Concatenation

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  • Speed Up WordPress by Compressing Output

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    I’ve used dreamhost to host this website for years, but for some reason, wordpress runs extremely slowly on it. But I found some code to compress your php so I’m giving it a try. Does my page load a faster? Seems so to me, but maybe it’s just psychological. First, place the following code in…

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  • Tree Style Tabs

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    I’ve been using a new Firefox extension called Tree Style Tabs. It’s great for widescreens because it takes all your tabs from the top of your browser and places it along the right or left side, saving a lot of vertical screen space. It took a little time to get used to.  Once in a…

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  • 7 years of teaching…

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    …and I still love my kids.

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  • My Glass Booth

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    I almost titled this post: Barack, the baby killer? But before I get into that, check me out: There’s a little quiz at glassbooth.org that helps you find out which presidential candidate most closely aligns with you. I don’t usually post about politics much here, probably because I’m not much of a political person.  But…

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  • Digi-life Digest for 2008-10-14

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    Yesterday 6:59am Published a blog post. Daily Digest for 2008-10-13 5:19pm Published a blog post. Colorful hydrants 5:20pm Posted a photo on TwitPic.

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  • Pink for October

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    I’ve gone Pink for October, in honor of breast cancer awareness month. Too bright? Let me know and I can tone it down a little.

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  • New Facebook Homepage

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    Just a new hompage for facebook today when I logged out. I didn’t notice anything else that was new. So what’s the verdict? Who like the old fb and who likes the new?

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  • Garbage Pail Kids

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    Anyone remember the Garbage Pail Kids? They were designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids.  My sibs and I used to collect GPK cards for some reason. Not sure why. Maybe it was because I never could afford a Cabbage Patch doll. Anyhoo, found some images by Luis Diaz, one of the original GPK artists.…

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  • Fun Political Paraphernalia

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    “A New Hope“ “Emo for Obama“

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  • Added Lifestream Page

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    Don’t know why anyone else would be interested in this, but I like having this documentation of my actions all across the web in one place. It’s like the newsfeed in Facebook, but it’s my very own web lifestream page. I used David Cramer’s lifestream plugin for wordpress. You can download it here. There’s also…

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  • Chalkboard Summary

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    Here’s a chalkboard summary of my summer in China: I don’t like to be friendly. I don’t like people. I don’t like friendly people. I don’t like sharing food. I don’t like hugs in hot weather. Thanks a lot for not letting me be comfortable, FRIENDS.

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  • Picasa 3 beta (windows only)

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    Again, Google continues to carry out its mission: to try to take over the world. I’ve just downloaded the Picasa 3 beta. You can now make movies, take screenshots and webcam shots, add watermarks and print captions. It also comes with a new photo viewer that looks like this: Hey, the easter egg still works!…

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  • Google Chrome Beta Download (Windows Only)

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    Edit: Sept. 3, 2008 me: i miss my adblocker joey: it has adblock joey: doesn’t it joey: o wait it doesn’t joey: lol it doesnt’ block google ads oh, and type about:internets into the address bar to get a fun little animation. If you haven’t heard the news, Google released its own browser today. Google…

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  • Olympics Photos

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    Edited: Friday, August 22 When I got back, everyone kept asking why I didn’t stay for the Olympics. My answer was “it’s better watching it on TV.” But now that I’ve seen these pictures, I guess being at the opening ceremonies wouldn’t have been too bad. More here or check out some weird Olympics photos.

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  • Adibos and Blood Nation

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    Anyone want a bag? I guess the English translation is secondary here, as evidenced by it’s bottom layer placement:

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