Just create a bookmark with the following as the link (only for Mozilla): The encoding in WP is messing things up, here is the link to the text file with the javascript bookmarklet. Once you have typed in or pasted code into a form somewhere on a <em>Mozilla page<⁄em>, clicking on this link will encode the elements on the form. The way it stands, it should encode < , >, \ and / It can be modified to encode everything in the ascii alphabet. 🙂 Have fun and let me know how it works out for you! Attribution: Original idea courtesy of ScriptyGoddess, Javascript “Textarea” hack to get around DOM selection problems courtesy of Steve Minutillo All I did was hack the code! 🙂 As per an email question from SouthernGal , I realize that I should have mentioned the way around Mozilla to actually make this a bookmarklet. So […]

The latest Blogging Survey Results are out from BlogsearchEngine.com. Take a closer look. Some of the items are not very surprising (such as 52.3% of bloggers surveyed use Google’s Blogger as their blogging platform of choice) but this information can be used very creatively by the media and PR entities to exploit this growing phenomenon.

A WP user asked about the best way to restrict access to the WP directory (on the WordPress forums) and I posted an answer without realizing that I should have explained myself further. Dougal added his own post which, I thought, was really well put and deserved a mention. He explains the intricacies of securing WordPress and in the process, explains file/directory permissions for UN*X/Linux servers as well. Good, quick, relatively complete explanation. Here is the link to the discussion.

Daynah has a handy tutorial for those just starting out with FeedDemon and RSS. …excerpt from: http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/feeddemon_tutor.html

Nick has released the 4th and probably the final release candidate of his amazing RSS reader for Windows. I haven’t had the time to install or use it yet as my computer is still in pieces due to the redecorating….…excerpt from: http://www.twenty4.org/archives/2003/11/20/feeddemon_rc4.php

Has your blogroll been hacked recently? If so I have some quick solutions for you which might get you off your Blogroll kick and might save you some hassles in the long run. 1) Use WordPress which has a built-in BlogRoll – no subscriptions needed! 2) Use my LinkTours php script which emulates a blogroll, is stored on your own webserver and is very slim and tidy, but it lacks the pinging scripts (so no updated sites list) 3) MT has a hack (I know it exists, Im still trying to find it) which emulates a BlogRoll 4) TypePad has built-in blogroll functionality, as well, using the TypeLists feature – Added by Anil 5) The online RSS reader Bloglines will let you export folders of your subscriptions as a blogroll. This means your blogroll is automatically synchronised with what you are really reading. – Added by Ben 6) Make Backups! […]

This ( http://www.mysql.com/doc/T/a/Table_maintenance.html ) is a good place to start with corrupted MySql databases. If you backup again and run myisamchk on your tables, you could recover the information. There are a couple of other methods. Your Mysql setup information in stored in a file called my.cnf inside your etc directory. Make sure your data directories are pointing to the base dir. e.g. Here is my setup [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock [mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/var/lib Restart mysql and httpd if you made those changes (with /etc/init.d/mysqld restart and /etc/init.d/httpd restart from a prompt, logged in as root) Now, once you have that setup correctly, PhpMyAdmin might come to your rescue. On a default install of MySql (both from binaries and compiled) a new database called mysql is created which lists all the users for the mysql server, etc. Make sure you re-create the users and passwords as they existed in your previous […]

Here is an excerpt from a recent thread of conversation from the WP support forums that I like to help out at. I have used the nickname LaughingLizard since my undergrad days. I did nothing special to think of the name, just sounded like I fit right into it. After graduation I wanted to register the name but found some restaurant owner (very lascivious business genre) had registered it already. The desire to name my blog after my nickname had to come to an end for the time being. As for the present name of my blog, I worked very little to acquire it. I love the word muse, worked it around a little, kept in mind that I wanted it to be something that is easily searchable and distinct as a word group, and there it was. As luck would have it, when I could finally afford to purchase […]

CSS Creator Are you tired of hand-coding the CSS that you use for formatting? Or would you rather have a visual guide to help you when choosing backgrounds, font sizes, font colors and more? If so, then you need to check out CSS Creator. From the site: “CSS Creator allows you to choose a style for your Web page. Select different Cascading Style Sheet properties from the page below. To select a color, look for the HTML tag you want to effect, click the field you would like to insert color into, like color or background, then simply click the color you want from the colors grid on the left. Most changes will display on the page as you make them.” …excerpt from: http://www.csscreator.com/version1/index.php