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DLTJ in another #NEWWWYEAR

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Well, we have reached the end of another arbitrary orbit around our small unregarded yellow sun1, and this primitive ape-descended life form2 is looking back...

DLTJ in a #NEWWWYEAR

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I came across Jen Simmon's call for a #newwwyear by way of Eric Meyer: Ok, here’s the deal. Tweet your personal website plan with the hashtag #newwwye...

DLTJ Updated to WordPress 2.5

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Unlike previous upgrades, this left some functionality broken -- notably some of the links in the second block under the "about" heading to the left (if you ...

DLTJ Updated, Readers Yawn

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At least I hope that is the correct headline. I've been having some problems with this installation of WordPress lately -- in particular, I could no longer ...

DLTJ now Running on WordPress 2.3

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Last night DLTJ was upgraded to WordPress 2.3. As far as I can tell, everything is working okay, but please let me know in the comments or the comment form ...

Schemes to Add Functionality to the Web OPAC

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Schemes to add functionality to the web OPAC fall into four categories: web OPAC enhancements, web OPAC wrappers, web OPAC replacements, and integrated libr...

Gentoo Abandons WordPress in Portage

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I don't think this has been widely announced, but while waiting for an update to Gentoo's portage entry for WordPress to cover the latest security and bug fi...

DLTJ Now Running on Wordpress 2.1

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DLTJ was upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 tonight. Everything looks good so far; please let me know if you disagree...

Killing Off Runaway Apache Processes

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Well, something is still going wrong on dltj.org — despite previous performance tuning efforts, I'm still running into cases where machine performance ...

WordPress/MySQL Tuning

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dltj.org runs on a relatively tiny box — a Pentium III with 512MB of RAM. I'm running a Gentoo Linux distribution, so I actually have a prayer of gett...

Possible Resolution to Technorati Update Problem

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Up until about an hour ago, Technorati refused to update its database of postings to DLTJ, and having reached the 31-day point of no updates I was starting t...

Modifications to FreePress Recent Comments Plugin

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For others that may find it useful, I've made two modifications to the FreePress Recent Coments plugin on DLTJ: one to strip out quoted material when using ...

DLTJ under a New Theme

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Okay -- let's try this again. The first time around didn't go so well, so I went back to the basics and started with a new theme: what is running on DLTJ n...