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The internet isn’t new. There is a certain etiquette that most people should be aware of by this stage of the game. One thing not to do is to hot-link to content on another person’s site. Why shouldn’t you do this? First because it’s not your stuff. It’s like borrowing someone’s car without telling them. [...]

I’ve added about 100 new photos to the galleries today. Most of them are macro shots and will show up in the above-linked gallery. I still need to process pretty much all of my underwater shots though, which will be a real PITA. Before I dive into that (no pun intended), I want to get [...]

After working with NextGEN Gallery Plugin on DoctorLovington.com, I decided that instead of trying to hack together my own gallery code that I’d give this a shot. It turns out that it’s a lot more feature-rich than it initially looks – which is naturally great. I started out by adding some macro stuff. I’m a [...]

One thing that always bugged me about WordPress is that you need to keep the wp-config.php file in your document root. I started digging a bit to see if there were any elegant solutions to this (some people had some decent hacks/options) but I found out that as of v2.6 that you can move your [...]

With all the work I’ve been putting into a local development environment, I decided it was about time to make some changes to my main site. Enough of the drag grey. Enough of the hand-written code that’s getting on 10 years old with a patchwork of hacks, patches and fixes. Some of the code looks [...]