Lifestream: Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. Better late than never.
It would seem that the combination of spam protection plugins that I had installed created false positives in the spam ranking code. Don’t know how long this has been going on or how many comments have been shredded. Really sorry about that.
Disabled:
NP_Akismet (seems to be the culprit)
NP_MultiRBL (seems redundant)
This means that the site is relying [...]
Seeing as it was summer and all, I wanted to try some grilling. It’s been years since I last grilled anything. Mostly because I don’t own a grill (any longer) and partly because of the inconvenience, alleged carcinogenic properties of the cooking process.
Nevertheless, the idea of grilling does entice me somewhat. So I started looking [...]
So I was filling up the bookshelf for the autumn season. Unfortunately there was this book by Michel Chossudovsky that I couldn’t get from any of the Swedish resellers, so I had to turn to Amazon UK. A compromise in that the books are generally the same price but the shipping and handling (airmail) is [...]
The last strawberry has been picked and the last potato has been unearthed. Produce was considerably lower than last year for some reason. Not that it’s such a big deal when you’re growing for fun on an amateur level. But you’d think that partial crop rotation (potatoes for strawberries) would have been enough.
Well, one thing [...]
I have started to purge and in some cases fix the layout of some of the older and more immature, pointless items in the journal. So far I’ve plain deleted about 20 or 30 items. I’m going by month, starting from the beginning, slowly working towards the present, determining what posts I can still maintain. [...]
Two hours in the woods, and in transit, for four litres of blueberries. Plus another hour maybe cleaning up and packaging them for freezing. Probably makes for some fairly expensive blueberries. Then again, there is nothing like being in the woods in the summer. Flies crawling, wasps buzzing and the crisp underbrush crackling under your [...]
Spent the afternoon scouting a new kitchen table. Not much has happened since last time and I’m still searching for the holy Grail of kitchen tables in terms of design and price. It’s always something wrong. Most often it’s the hilarious price tag. Other times it’s veneer or antiquated designs dogging the consumer.
Last.fm has gone public with the design that was showcased to subscribers. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I actually had to use it. Slow to load, overly glassy and glossy, and with tons of little design quirks that just scream of a design being unfinished. Here are some of the most obvious [...]
The weather has been stormy but so far the Brugmansia has been doing well. I did remove some excessive plant material and pot though just to be on the safe side. Keeping these plants safe for the winter has been a big problem so far, so I’ll try to keep one or two in room [...]
So what do you do when you have a ton of free time on your hands? Well for starters one could make yet another feed parsing script for Last.fm. This time using the phpScrobbler class.
I think it turned out fairly well. Some CSS magic and a function to not only display cover art but also [...]
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