It’s Friday again, so it’s time for another Vid.
Author: Gabriel
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This is the Day When Things Fall Into Place
Fridays are a respite. Friday has a way of sticking its middle finger up in the air as if to say the rest of the week can suck all it likes, but it’s still a Friday, and Friday is a good day. And so I searched in my head for a song I associate Fridays with, and came up with this:
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Assessing A Planned Move from WordPress to Drupal
I need to write this down to serve as a list in determining a mass migration of my sites from WordPress to Drupal, so I’ll just blog it right? I’ll start with a list of a few WordPress issues I am frustrated with, off the top of my head:
- Asides: I wanna show posts (or post titles, or post titles with excerpts) from specific categories on the sidebar. I have done this with limited success on BallEx on a category I called ‘PBA Notes’ (ftg. news fresh from the PBA), but unfortunately WordPress counting mechanism counts these posts as part of the posts that it should display on the front page, so everytime I post to the PBA Notes category, it removes a post from the index. It’s not a terribly difficult issue and is ‘resolved’ somewhat by merely posting more (which I should be doing anyway), but it’s kept me stumped for too long a while already, and prevents me from putting even more categories on the sidebar. At the moment the setting on BallEx for ‘Options > Reading > Blog Pages show at most:” is set at 30.
As I mentioned on this post, the best Aside Plugin seems to be Katesgasis’ Sideblog, but it has unfortunately not been since 2006.
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Something Seriously Wrong With New WordPress 2.6
I upgraded this blog and now my permalinks structure causes 404 errors.
I have reverted this to use WordPress Default, and am not using permalinks at the moment.
I am investigating the sql file and my (very few) plugins but I don’t know if the issue is there. I think it may have to do with rules for Lighttpd. Using lighty has been a struggle really, especially when you encounter errors, because at the back of my mind I often wonder if it has something to do with it.
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Went to the Binondo Food Wok last Saturday
Here’s Lorenzo Ruiz scoring on a left handed layup. Honestly with that height, he should dunk it.
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Why I Need To Workout
For no particular reason other than I want to blog about something but can’t think of any other something, forthwith are reasons why I need to work out often:
Sleep Apnea – I know I self – diagnosed this, but I’ve all the symptoms, including fatigue from lack of sleep, waking up at 3am to take a leak, deep set eye bags again from lack of sleep, waking up in a sweat every so often at night (because my lungs were struggling to breathe), and finally the most damning of all, dreams of drowning. The particular recurring dream is fairly vivid. I am on a white sandy beach with some rocky breakwater hills in the distance, which I investigate. While doing so, I enter small caves and whatnot, and before I know it the tide is coming in strong, so strong that I cannot go back to the sandy beach. I struggle to climb higher, but the strong waves start lapping at my feet and upward. At this point I assume I wake up.
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PLUG Mailing List is apparently down, posting message here instead.
The mailing list went all quiet last week and I thought it was a lull, but apparently it really is down, as a message I posted was not read by Migs when I asked him about it. Am waiting for it to go up again, but until then, the best I can do is publish it here on my blog so itll come out the PLUG aggregator. Here it is:
Dear People of PLUG:
A week ago I received a proposal from a company called Firsteventsasia (Firsteventsasia.com).They do events, and are holding one of those generic IT ones called ‘Philippine Information Technology Expo and Business Solutions Summit’ on Sep 30 – Oct 2 at Philippine Trade and Training Center, Roxas Blvd.
Anyway they want an ex-deal. They are giving us a venue for an EB / gathering in exchange for plugging their event on our website.
Here’s the text from their proposal:
