Archive for January, 2008

Testing my trackbacks

I recently wrote a blog entry that had a link to one of Anna’s blog posts. WordPress is supposed to automatically send a trackback to that blog entry but it doesn’t seem to be working properly.
I found this test page to test my trackbacks. I’ll also link to my original Hello World post.

Design Patterns Quick Reference

Jason McDonald has put together a cheatsheet of some Gang of Four design patterns.
I used to visit DoFactory’s patterns pages for all the patterns but now I have a sheet with all of them on a page.  Cool!

Snow Angel

Today was a snow day here and most schools were closed. I stayed home with Claire today and we went outside for a bit to play in the snow.

Anna posted a couple of these pics on her Photo-A-Day blog. The rest can be seen in my gallery.

The best all-season tire…

…is one that hasn’t been invented yet. Until then, we still have the Nokian WR G2. These tires are sold in British Columbia exclusively by KalTire. I paid an arm and a leg for these tires but so far they’ve been totally worth it.
Nokian’s tire is classified as an “All-Weather” tire [...]

Adding 2 integers (32-bit)

A 32-bit signed integer has valid values ranging from−2,147,483,648 to +2,147,483,647.
So why do I always see sample code of an integer addition method written in C# like this:

What is Mesothelioma?

I was just checking out the CyberWyre site for the highest paying search terms and came across a list where 12 of the top 20 highest paying search terms has something to do with Mesothelioma. The payouts range anywhere from $55 to $69 and from Mesothelioma treatments to doctors.

Test post with a photo linked to the gallery

This is a test post. There should be an image thumbnail below. When clicked, the thumbnail should redirect to the photo’s page in my gallery.

 

 

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How to add rel=”nofollow” to WordPress blogroll links

I was playing around with WordPress trying to find out how to open links in new windows (i.e. using target=”_blank”). I’m still getting to used to WordPress’ templating system and familiarizing myself with the include structure.
Then I found out that Google and other search engines may lower your PageRank if they find out you [...]

Starting a new gallery

I’ve decided to start a new gallery.
I’m playing around with Gallery and am surprised by all the features, plugin, and overall flexibility and tweakability of this system. This blows Telligent’s CommunityServer Gallery out of the water. Like WordPress, Gallery is written in PHP and uses MySQL as a backend data store.
I’ve just started [...]

Starting a new blog

I’ve decided to start a new blog.
This blog is now running on the WordPress engine which uses PHP and MySQL for its scripting language and database respectively. All are free and open source software. I have them all running on Windows Server 2003 and IIS6…running in a Virtual PC…on Windows Vista…long story.
I’m trying to import [...]