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LifestreamDue to the incomprehensible decision by Google’s Picasa team to merge Gmail and Picasa usernames I’ve moved my pictures to another Google account. New address is here: picasaweb.google.com/rustlingrondo. I also have an alternative account as of yet unpopulated. I must have been randomizing user names for hours before I came up with something I liked. [...]
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Upgrade went well. It’s nice to see that the platform is still under such intense development. Knock on wood. One of the changes in 3.0 is the custom menu. Unfortunately you have to code it into your template for this to work. Just like with widgets. Incidentally I stripped the widget snippets from all my [...]
Finally got PHP 5.2.9 installed so in other words the xml problem that came out of the libxml fix is now resolved. Which means that I can post via xml-rpc and windows live writer again and makes it a hell of a lot easier to add media like images to posts. At least if I [...]
As predicted, PHP 5.2.9 coupled with Libxml2 2.7.3 fixes the bracket issue. However, for people like myself that are hosted collectively on a platform that uses Cpanel, the wait has only just begun. I contacted my host the day after 5.2.9 was released, eager to get it resolved, but I was hit with the stark [...]
I’m having issues with libxml2 and posting via xml-rpc (left brackets being stripped). The problem apparently has been around since some ill-fated libxml2 tweak back in December, but I didn’t notice it until my host did a software upgrade this past Saturday while performing hardware maintenance. Apparently though, since the libxml people insisted nothing was [...]
A new beta of Windows Live Writer is out. It seems to pretty much be a solid version of the tech preview. MS calls it “Wave 3″ of its Live client suit and it now has a new companion program, a video editor. Sadly, this latest beta of Live Writer still hasn’t addressed any of [...]
There is a new tech preview build of Windows Live Writer available. It doesn’t address all the concerns but it is a pretty big step in the right direction. Most importantly it does not escape characters in the body (see below) anymore unless it is special chars like ampersand (&) etc. Not a big deal [...]
As previously indicated, and as is obvious from the new and smarter navigation bar / ribbon on the top of the page, I successfully scribbled together a lifestream application using simplepie. Check it out at bjornhallberg.com.
Will be moving to Picasa permanently. In anticipation of that I removed the Coppermine Gallery folder and added a redirection to Picasa. I had thought of installing Gallery2, but the core problems would remain. I’d have a major script to upgrade every other week to patch the latest security vulnerability. And uploading images would be [...]
I have been in contact with the development team at Microsoft and I am confident now that the most obvious pitfalls in the application will be made null and void shortly. Most notably, the escaping / encoding for non-ASCII characters in XHTML mode will be changed so that it only escapes special chars like ampersand [...]
