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WordPress Howto: Combine Categories into a RSS/Atom Feed
This was really pretty easy but I was surprised that WordPress apparently does not have the functionality to combine posts from two or more categories into one feed. Say you have five categories: Fishing, Hunting, Vegan Diet Tips, Feather Boas and Cleaning Automatic Weapons. Say you want a feed that combines Hunting and Vegan Diet [...]
WordPress Howto: Adding a class name to post links with a specific URL
WordPress is a pretty cool beast; there is a lot you can do to extend it, and pretty easily. Having said that, digging around in the documentation for the more advanced stuff can be a bear. Recently I needed to extend WordPress to alter every link in a post, to add a new class, but [...]
What is Worse, Energy-wise?
I’ve long wondered about the “real” energy cost of materials. For instance, a couple of years ago, my father bought a solar panel to power his RV while camping. According to the literature that came with the panel, it would have to be active for 4 straight years, given average daily sunlight, to recoup the [...]
Ramblings Compiled #1
Compiled from my 2000-2002 “Ramblings” blog at goofiness.com: Anyway, the other day my wife was telling me about a conversation she had on the phone with a client where she works. As she was saying goodbye, she had one of those brain locks that each of us has at some point. During the final stages [...]
I could care less; in fact, I have to
We all hear a lot about micro-managers and control freaks. No one addresses why someone is a control freak or micro-manager, though. I am a foster parent, I’ve had probably 20 kids in my house at some point or another. There was one child who lived with us for about 2 years with whom, I [...]
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