Archive for July 23rd, 2008
Your Skill In Read Has Increased By 1 Point
Nice t-shirt from Jinx:
WoWHead’s Achievement Database
WowHead has a database of all of the achievements that are in the Wrath of the Lich King beta.
Tags: World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King
Keeping a WordPress Site Private
Both of my children known my wife and I have blogs, and they’ve wanted their own sites to post their artwork and pictures and write about the things that are important to them. So I went ahead and created a couple subdomains and installed WordPress. But since they’re still young, I wanted to password protect the entire site so only logged in users can view their blogs — that way I can give a guest username/password to family members who might be interested, while locking everyone else out.
The bizarre thing is that WordPress does not support this out of the box. If you want to do this with WordPress, you’re going to have to install a plugin. And — lucky me — all of the plugins that do this are broken because WordPress changed how it handles authentication cookies in 2.5. I ended up downloading Angusman’s Authenticated WordPress Plugin, then modified the code to take into account WP’s new preferred authenticaton method, but it was a pain.
What makes this particular feature a bit odd by its absence is that Automattic does offer folks who sign up for a blog at WordPress.Com the option to hide their blog, so its not like this is a feature (like caching) where the devs are just idiots and think nobody wants that.
Given how simple the code to make a site private is, it is silly that this capability isn’t already integrated into WordPress.
Tags: Wordpress
RememberTheMilk.Com
A couple years ago, I wrote about My Life Organized as my task management software of choice. About 6 months ago, though, I switched to RememberThe Milk.com and haven’t looked back.
My Life Organized is still the best task manager I’ve ever used but: a) its a desktop application, and b) its Windows-only.
I’d tried out RememberTheMilk back in 2006 but came away unimpressed. They’ve dramatically improved since then. Using RTM’s tagging and priority systems along with a fairly powerful search-based lists that use Boolean operators, I can replicate in RTM what I was doing in My Life Organized. And thanks to a nice mobile version of RTM, I can access my task list easily on my Blackberry.
OnlineMetals.Com
I’m working on a project where I need thin sheets of cold rolled steel in some odd sizes. Hmm . . . can I get that on the Internet? Yes, I can, thanks to OnlineMetals.com.
Tags: Metal, OnlineMetals.Com