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Overheard in New Orleans – Just Can’t Help Myself
Daily, as I go about my business on the streets of the French Quarter, I hear the most … ridiculous, shocking, hilarious, sad…erudite snippets of conversation. It’s too amusing not to share. And thus a new blog category is born…”Overheard in the French Quarter“.
On Bienville between Chartres and Royal
“…and I was wearing a bedazzled shirt. But, it was tight…”
TimThumb Scanner Plugin Activation Error
After finding evidence this morning in my logs that some visitors to the site were trying to take advantage of the timthumb vulnerability in WordPress, I installed the TimThumb Scanner plugin, which I have used before. Upon activating, I got the following error: The plugin generated 327 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you [...]
Fixing problems in theTemplatic WordPress Theme “Video”
Templatic makes some great looking themes. A client of mine chose their free theme “Video” for his graphics and video portfolio, based on the theme demo. After uploading it, he kept getting Permission Denied errors when trying to update the Theme Options. After some poking around I found that in the theme’s /functions/admin-settings.php file, “777″ [...]
New NOLA Outfit aka Background
Changing the basic look is to a website what putting on a new outfit is to a woman. Since much of my life is lived online and through this website, I get bored seeing the same thing from day to day and decided to switch up my backgrounds for fun. This snazzy New Orlean’s, fleur-de-lis [...]
Time to Start Fresh
So…after a fairly big server hiccup I caused this weekend working on a new project, I decided it was time to dump my old databases and start fresh. Seven years of blog posts and permalinks had gotten a bit mangled over the many new iterations of WordPress and my life has changed so drastically in [...]
