John’s Jottings

Nothing like coming home from a business trip and seeing that your website was down for 24 hours due to an overloaded circuit. Wednesday was like a black hole here on John’s Jottings.

I’ve been playing with RSS a bit over the last few weeks. This is the first in a series of articles documenting some of the things I’ve run into.
I’ve moved to a full article feed instead of just the article excerpt. Once I started using an RSS aggregator I realized how nice full [...]

I’m trying out Brad Choate’s MT-Textile plugin and I must say I’m struggling a bit with it - I’m used to just clicking those buttons to add formatting, and part of me thinks that instead of using this plugin I could simply add a few more buttons for some frequently used tags.
However, I’m giving it [...]

So what do you do when your wife and kids are away and you have the house to yourself for the weekend? Well if you are a geek you get up at 4:00AM to do a redesign of your website. Watch your step.
(note from years later - I don’t care nearly about this [...]

Now that I’m home I’ve had the chance to look into a problem I noticed beginning to happen this week. Two times a couple of different people had entered the same comments twice, which sometimes means they got impatient for the script to return and just posted again. So I entered a comment [...]