I received an SMS message on my cell phone today, informing me that Cingular (my carrier) had a free phone for me, all I had to do was stop by my local Cingular store and …. etc. It also nicely told me to reply with ‘STOP’, and I would not receive marketing messages from them [...]
Archive for May, 2006
No border around images in Wordpress sidebar
Update: In WordPress 2.1.x, the code below is now in the file wp-includes/bookmark-template.php
I wanted to put an image in the sidebar of this blog, but the default code puts a border around the image, because it's also a link. I think that's generally unattractive, but even the link editor didn't allow me to set the [...]
Compiling mod_ruby 1.2.5 under Fedora Core 5
When compiling mod_ruby under Fedora Core 5, and thus Apache 2.2, configure.rb assumes an incorrect path for the apr* files, and make kicked out the following errors:
# make
In file included from /usr/include/httpd/httpd.h:43,
from mod_ruby.h:49,
from mod_ruby.c:33:
/usr/include/httpd/ap_config.h:25:17: error: apr.h: No such file or directory
/usr/include/httpd/ap_config.h:26:23: error: apr_hooks.h: No such file or directory
/usr/include/httpd/ap_config.h:27:32: error: apr_optional_hooks.h: No such file or directory
...
The [...]
Downloads of RSS file versus audio file
Scott Whitney had a question for us regarding the number of downloads of your RSS (XML) file versus the number of downloads of the actual audio file (Podcast) identified within it:
Do you have any data regarding the normal ratio between number of feed downloads (the XML file) versus the actual number of audio downloads? [...]
Favicons in Bloglines
I'm surprised to find out that Bloglines does not update the favicons (the small icons that appear next to the feed name) dynamically. After quickly Googling the subject, I saw that you had to manually request that your feeds be 'updated', so that the favicon would show up. Very strange, since most other feed readers [...]
Sorting out some trouble with the Emprex MP1003 MP3 player
Larry Mason informed us that our most recent episodes of Endurance Radio would not play on the Emprex MP1003 MP3 player he had just recently purchased at Frys. This concerned me, because I know that often many different brands of MP3 players use the same chipset, and if it was a chipset problem, and not [...]