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Unintended Consequences
I’m always fascinated by unintended consequences, especially when they are an artifact of trying to do something right. In moving to Salt Lake City from California, I’ve been reminded that good intentions and planning do not a perfect world make. I live close to downtown, so I’ve started walking to work. It’s a nice walk,…
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Chrome: Awww Snap!
Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of the annoying message about pages dying on Chrome. For the most part it’s just annoying, and clicking “wait” lets the page load. Until this morning, when for some reason Chrome just stopped letting me get to any of my hosted web sites. Whenever I would go to http://www.accuweaver.com,…
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Hacking a Theme
I was setting up a temporary WordPress site for a client as a placeholder for their business. All they wanted was their logo, a link to an existing product page, and a message about the site being under construction. Since they were going to have some design ready shortly, I set them up with a…
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WordPress on CPanel
I had to set up a WordPress instance on a server where my only real access is via cPanel, so I Googled a bit and found this article: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/20859/install-wordpress-manually-on-your-website-using-cpanel-wizards/ First step is to log in to the cPanel, which is typically at some arbitrary port on your server, and log in with your admin credentials. If…