From the monthly archives:

August 2008

inquiry as a subversive activity

August 20, 2008 · 3 comments

I’ve been reading Postman and Weingartner’s Teaching as a Subversive Activity (more info), and I’m finding myself extremely drawn into it. It’s the kind of book that I may have read as an undergrad, but just wasn’t ready for. It’s the kind of book where you need to be ready to really engage with it [...]

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perception and reality - August 19, 2008

…we do not get our perceptions from the “things” around us. Our perceptions come from us. This does not mean that there is nothing outside of our skins. It does mean that whatever is “out there” can never be known except as it is filtered through a human nervous system. We can never get outside of our own skins. “Reality” is a perception, located somewhere behind the eyes.

- Postman, 1969

This sums up so much of what I’ve been thinking about. And leads to so much more…

mollom just got punted

August 19, 2008 · 2 comments

in general

Mollom’s been doing a simply outstanding job of blocking spam lately, after the warm-up period. Unfortunately, it appears to be doing a bang-up job of blocking legitimate, breathing humans who are trying (and failing) to comment. I’m moving antispam back to Akismet for awhile, and am hoping it’s just a growing pain for Mollom – [...]

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silly comment escaping fixed? -

It’s been bugging me for awhile that comments have been quote-escaped for some time now. I did a quick Google search, and it looks like the WP-OpenID plugin is the culprit. I’ve disabled it, and it looks like the problem has gone away. I’ll test more later…

Network vs. Machine

August 19, 2008 · 13 comments

in general

Cole wrote a post about how his Twitter network helped him solve a problem. His blog suddenly decided to stop accepting comments, and he wasn’t sure how that happened, or how to fix it. I was just going to post this as a comment on his blog, but, well, it’s still not accepting comments [...]

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WPMU Tweakage for ucalgaryblogs.ca – Part 1

August 18, 2008 · 1 comment

in general

I said I’d share what I’ve done in setting up ucalgaryblogs.ca, and instead of waiting for The Mother of All Blog Posts, I’m going to break it up into a few parts. In Part 1, I’ll talk about some of the mu-plugins I added. Some are really cool, some are just shiny…
Basically, start with a [...]

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eAccelerator didn't work out so well - August 18, 2008

I was trying to be clever today, and installed the eAccelerator plugin for WordPress, as my CanadianWebHosting.com server offers eAccelerator built in. Thought it’d be handy to speed things up. Worked GREAT. At first. Then faceplant. Fail. 500 Internal Server Error. No more eAccelerator plugin on my blog…

Pimping the WPMU for ucalgaryblogs.ca

August 18, 2008 · 7 comments

in work

I’ve been slowly tweaking the WPMU install that drives ucalgaryblogs.ca – it’s not quite ready for prime time, but it’s darned close.
It’s now got:

multiple blogs per user, and multiple users per blog
subdomain hosting for each blog (i.e., myblog.ucalgaryblogs.ca)
domain mapping – want to use your own custom domain? want myblog.com to point to the blog you’ve [...]

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