"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end".
WordPress and Google Gears and quicktags
a strong suggestion from under the hood: if you happen to use wordpress + google gears + custom WP quicktags… when you update quicktag.js – don;t forget to update google gears at the sane time… or else!!
WordPress now at 2.7.1
within a few hours of WordPress 2.7.1 being released I completed the upgrade for this blog. Also worth noting that I am running on latest nightly build of K2 (r756). Both upgrades were over and done with in well under the hour.
The Best of News Feeds #14
Some of the news stories that I stumbled across this past week with some nice graphics thrown in for good measure! If you don’t read this post at least check out the pretty pictures.
Bang, bang, bang…
by David Ulg: Papua New Guinea’s gun culture
During the 1960s, only bows and arrows were used against enemies and for hunting. Today, guns are dominating entire villages, towns, and cities in Papua New Guinea. I ponder and ask why we do we accumulate and store guns in the corners of our living rooms…
I thought the French were a proud bunch when it comes to naming things…
by Tavurvur: French Firm Poaches and Patents PNG’s “Bilum”
A French firm has patented the bilum. Yes, it’s true. And the name of this particular French firm – well, have a guess! The firm has decided to call itself Bilum and you can find their website here…
Here’s something to toss in the toolbox…
by Jonathan Bailey: 5 Bookmarklets to Learn More About a Site
There are many reasons one might want to learn more information about a site they are visiting. Perhaps the site is a competitor that is beating you in the search engine rankings. It could be that the site is a spam blog or other site warranting an abuse report to their host. Maybe they are just curious to find out who is hosting the fast-moving server, making them want to switch to their host…
WordPress is serious business!
by Lorelle VanFossen: First Ever Permanent WordPress Tattoo
Over the last month, I’ve been telling everyone in the WordPress Community about my friend, Ed Morita, in Hawaii whose been running a contest asking “Where Should I Put My WordPress Tattoo?” He’s putting a permanent tattoo on his body because blogging with WordPress changed his life and he wants to honor it by adding to his tattoo body art collection…
When it comes to Open Source this man is a leader…
by msurman: The future of open: what’s on your map?
On Saturday, I gave a keynote at FOSDEM called Free. Open. Future? My goal was to encourage people think of free and open as concepts that extend beyond software, and to spark a conversation about the ideas / design frameworks / mental maps we’ll need to make sure complex spaces like mobile and messaging are open in the future. The slides are here:…
Done!!
by Ryan Boren: WordPress 2.7.1
2.7.1, the first 2.7 maintenance release, is now available. 2.7.1 fixes 68 tickets. You can automatically upgrade from 2.7 to 2.7.1 via the Tools->Upgrade menu, or you can download the package and upgrade manually. Consult the list of fixed tickets and the full set of changes between 2.7 and 2.7.1 for details…
This blogger is a master when it comes to content (and photos)…
by MadDog: You Can’t Make This
Remember MC Hammer’s You Can’t Touch This? How about Weird Al Yankovic’s parody I Can’t Watch This? I loved them both – and I hate RAP! Well, neither of them has anything to do with this post. It’s just my play on words. However, no matter how smart and skilled you are, You Can’t Make This:…
What’s the point Mr Tammur?
by Emmanuel: Invitation for Comments on Draft ICT Policy Phase 2 Reforms
Minister for Communications and Information, Hon. Patrick Tammur released a letter on Monday the 9th February, inviting comments on the ICT Policy Phase 2. So now is our chance to give our comments on those burning issues of the ICT realm. Could this be the final hurdle in seeing ICT grow to its…
Let’s all kill each other!
by Zachery Per: Five shot dead in fresh tribal clash
FIVE people were shot dead in a tribal conflict in Unggai-Bena district in Eastern Highlands province only days after MPs visited the area and called for an end to tribal fighting, The National reports. In a dawn raid on Monday, Nagamie clansmen ransacked their arch-rival Bogerigu village at Katagu and killed five people and seriously injured another two…
And what about PNG Mr. Mr Tammur?
by Coconutwireless: A Role for Telekom Policy?
In the US, President Obama’s $800 billion economic stimulus plan includes $7 billion in spending for improving the nation’s broadband infrastructure. What’s happening in the US brings up a very important question for Fiji: What role should public policy play in the deployment of network infrastructure?…
Travel Itinerary
Travel arrangements for my trip down to Sydney later this month have now been confirmed. I will be landing at Sydney airport at 6:55pm on the Friday the 27th of February.
Yeeehaaaa….!!!
A double and a triple yeeehaaaa….!!!
For a list of “To Do’s” whilst I R&R in Sydney in a couple of weeks read this.
And here’s that itinerary for those that still remember me and are motivated enough to want to catch up whilst I’m chilling out Downunder:
Itinerary Feb-Mar 2009 trip to Sydney
I can’t wait!
Build it and they will come!
the number of visitors to this blog is slowly increasing. To give you an example – yesterday was a bit of a record day with close to 800 visitors!! Based on the traffic from the past few weeks we can expect well over 100,000 visitors to Trupela Tok this coming year. See the stats page for yourself.
Bloody women drivers!!
This incident happened to me on the F1 free-way a few years back as I was driving into work one morning from the Central Coast…
I looked over to my left and there was a woman in a brand new Holden Calais doing 110 kms per hr with her face up next to her rear view mirror putting on her eye liner.
I looked away for a couple seconds! And when I looked back she was halfway over in my lane, still working on that make-up.
As a man, I don’t scare easily. But she scared me so much; I dropped my electric shaver, which knocked the meat pie out of my other hand. In all the confusion of trying to straighten out the car using my knees against the steering wheel, it knocked my mobile phone away from my ear which fell into the coffee between my legs, splashed, and burned Big Jim and the Twins, ruined the darn phone, soaked my trousers, and disconnected an important call.
Bloody women drivers!!
10 Ways to improve a WordPress Blog
Some of you might have noticed that a day doesn’t go by without something on this blog changing. In the true spirit of Kaizen I continue to aspire to and climb the learning curve of WordPress – always learning something new and testing “things” out – thus facilitating perpetual change and improvement that in a nice sort of way has become a hallmark.
Where will all this lead? (Who cares… the journey is most rewarding)
The fact is that WordPress is a joy to work with. Why do I say this? Because…
- It is a very stable product and continues to evolve at a rate of knots.
– It’s absolutely 100% free.
– Extremely well supported by developers and users.
– Has an incredible collection of plugins available which allow for a myriad of added value features.
– Has a depth and a flexibility which would spin the head of the most devout of Buddhist monks.
Just to give you an example – the last week here’s what I’ve been busy with (yes… you guessed it “10 things”!):
1) Upgrades performed on about 4 of the plugins. On average 4 to 6 of my WordPress plugins have code updates released every week.
2) Tidied up the footer. The footer is the section that sits at the bottom of every page. If you go to the bottom of the page now you will see what I mean.
3) Been chipping away at the Stats page (again). A couple of things added here – another couple removed from there – and a bit of a tidy up just to keep things looking trim. If you go to the page you will now see a line that reads “Projected visitors per year” – at present and based on current trends this blog gets just under 100,000 visitors per year and an average of around 250 per day!! Go check it out for yourself!
An example of some of numbers available from the Stats page
4) Implemented a “nofollow” rule for all external links. If you want to learn a little more about the “nofollow” and “noindex” meta tags just read this.
5) My Google Page Rank hit a 4 this week.
6) Been rationalising the number of plugins I run and as a result been doing a little “spring” cleaning – tossing out some plugins without sacrificing any of the value added features. How? By moving some of the PHP code from the plugin itself into the WordPress theme (functions.php). I’m down from 65 plugins to approximately 53!!
7) Tested and implemented what in WordPress terms is called a child theme. If you want to learn all about child themes read this. It’s essentially a framework that makes life much simpler when WordPress or parent themes are upgraded. I use K2 as my parent theme which is being updated every few weeks. The child theme approach makes the upgrade process that much simpler.
8) Have implemented a new feature on the blog which I think is really cool. The feature is based on a WordPress plugin by the name of Acronyms. Rather than go into a whole technical blurb about how it all works – here’s a practical example. See the words below? Just hover the mouse over them and see what happens! I will slowly build up a dictionary of “Tok Pisin” language terms. Interestingly, what ever terms I put in the dictionary will be applied to all posts!
Tok Pisin
AVI
UNITECH
buai
IMHO
haus man
WTF
bilum
ROFLMAO
9) Been helping out on a few forums. It’s a way of giving something back to the WordPress community and is in itself an excellent vehicle for learning.
10) Ah yes… almost forgot! Upgraded my K2 theme to the latest revision: r749. Each release has bug fixes as well as enhancements.
Sydney here I come!
return flight to the land of Oz now booked! Scheduled to land at Sydney airport on the Friday, 27th of February – 6:45pm – flight PX1. It feels kind of weird – been over two years! – but it feels real goooood…!!
Another weekend bites the dust
unbelievable the speed at which time has a habit of flying. The days turn into weeks, the weeks into months, the months into years and before you know it… grey hairs start appearing, reading glasses become a necessity and aches and pains creep into body parts that one never knew existed.
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