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title: "Sunday Night Quickies"
date: 2005-02-20T20:12:17-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/02/20/sunday-night-quickies/
author: Les Orchard
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# Sunday Night Quickies

I want a quickie posting theme like Strongbad's rap about [answerin' the emails][emails].

[emails]: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html

* Wow.  This a capella cover of TMBG's "Particle Man" I just [heard on Coverville][cover] by [The Bobs][bobs] absolutely rocks.

[cover]:http://www.coverville.com/archives/2005/02/coverville_53_a.html
[bobs]:http://www.bobs.com/cover.html

* And then, I realize that I've heard The Bobs before.  In particular, it was from when I used to listen to the [Dr. Demento Show][demento] and heard their song "[My, I'm Large][large]".  Now, that takes me back.

[demento]:http://www.drdemento.com/
[large]:http://www.bobs.com/mil.html
 
* Got [a comment from Mark Eichin][markcomment] that reminded me I forgot to link to something I posted a few years ago: [Perceptible interface + laziness threshold = weblog silence][lazy]

[lazy]:http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2002/03/26/oooofa
[markcomment]:http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2005/02/19/writing_no_things_of_epic_import#comment-4326

* I just helped my friend Erik (aka We3bus) get [The Biofeedback Blog][bfb] up and running for his company with [WordPress 1.5][wp]--I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it.  It was a gigantic pain in the ass, since we ran into problems with damn near *every* component of the setup, from MySQL to IIS to WordPress itself.  Granted, this is a bit of a non-typical install, but damn...  Anyway, check them out.

[wp]: http://www.wordpress.org
[bfb]: http://www.bio-medical.com/blog/

* [A comment from Jason Clark][jcc] makes me think a little more about ideas I've had about customized feeds to offer here for the next refresh.  I've gotten on a run posting political links because, well, I've got some very definite opinions about our current situation--but you might not care about that.  Was thinking that I might offer a mix-your-own-feed form where you can pick and choose from kinds of posts and tags I'll be using.  The proper place for this is in the aggregator, but it could be a fun project for the book.

[jcc]:http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2005/02/19/tonights_items_of_little_import#comment-4323

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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221087952" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-02-22T09:30:39">2005-02-22T09:30:39</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Les, what kind of problems did you run into with WordPress? There is a login/redirection problem on IIS (due to an IIS bug) that we're aware of. There will be a 1.5.1 release coming out soon with a workaround. Details can be found here: 


http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=592

  http://www.simmonsconsulting.com/wordpress/?p=160</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221087953" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-02-22T09:57:31">2005-02-22T09:57:31</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Dougal: Actually, that's was the problem we had-- which, now that I think about it again, is much more a bug with IIS than with WordPress.  We hacked WP in a few places, but the dot-release to fix things properly will certainly be more than welcome!</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221087955" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-02-22T10:18:45">2005-02-22T10:18:45</time></a>
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            <div class="content">...and this was the issue we had with MySQL, involving OLD_PASSWORD:

http://drbacchus.com/wordpress/index.php?p=896</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221087959" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-02-22T15:15:08">2005-02-22T15:15:08</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Okay, I just wanted to make sure that you didn't run across any other issues that we weren't already aware of. If you *do*, please post a bug report:

http://mosquito.wordpress.org/main_page.php</div>
            
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