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More random tinkering with my website:

• Upgraded to the latest point release of WordPress.
• I switched to a more orthodox site layout, instead of the bizarre, half-assed crap that I had going on before. Consequences (intended and otherwise) include:
  • More stuff “just works” than used to, including almost anything related to how up-to-date stuff is (which hopefully will have more benefits than consequences).
  • I retired one of my private plugins, which served only to make part of my screwball setup work.
  • For the moment, authentication isn’t done over SSL (as it should be).
  • CSS files (or anything else belonging to my current theme) are no longer served over SSL (as they shouldn’t be).
  • You should have seen the mess that made of my live-preview in MarsEdit.
  • Spammers seem to be getting far less confused on the way to my form submission URL, resulting in a meteoric rise in the length of my spam queue — sorry, anyone trying to comment on my site who doesn’t have my e-mail address.
• I switched anti-spam plugins. Nothing against Spam Karma 2, mind you — it’s quite good, I just wanted to check out Akismet.
• Retired another one of my private plugins that now duplicates a core feature.
• Switched from WP Cache 2 to WP Super Cache, because the former wasn’t working properly on my site. Why cache a site that nobody reads? Why not!

Update: April 30, 2008

Found another one:

• All permalinks in my feeds have been invalid since I did this. I thought the only thing of consequence I had broken by not moving Mint properly was its up-to-date link — I was wrong. Bird Feeder was using the old hostname in the URLs it constructs.

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One of my problems with Leopard has been that the way I use Finder stopped working. I set it to “Always open folders in a new window” and hold down option when I want to close the window I start from. This is actually different from the behavior with that preference off — when you open a new window, it has the saved view settings for that folder. When you navigate to a new folder in an existing window, the view settings from the old folder remain. With Leoopard, holding down option merely reverses the state of that preference. A day or two ago I thought I should try all the modifier combinations to be sure they just didn’t hide it on me, rather than get rid of it…and I quickly found it. Hold down control and option, instead of just option, while hitting command-down or whatever and you get the old (just holding option) behavior.

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Whoever sold this ad is a marketing genius. I mean honestly — if you were selling cookbooks, would you have realized you need to get on SourceForge? No, you wouldn’t have. You know why? I’ll tell you — you’re an idiot. Meddling amateurs like you or me would have been wasting our advertising budget on Food Network spots. Luckily, for all humanity, we have proper Madison Avenue types to save us from ourselves.

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