Archive for December, 2008

Post Levels 2 v0.10.0

I’ve completed the first draft of the Post Levels 2 plugin that I’m using here.
Post Levels is a Wordpress plugin that permits the administrator to hide private posts from users with insufficient access.  This is performed by assigning a post level to each post, and a user level to each user, and a post is [...]


Abstruse Goose: George Lucas

It’s so true…


Post Levels / Welcome to DISQUS

A while back I signed up for a DISQUS account to comment on Fortes’ discussion thread about his Post Levels plugin.  Now that I’ve spent a couple of days beating my head against a wall to understand what it was that he did and try to work out comments for the code that hopefully even [...]


Hidden Posts

Back are the hidden posts and post levels.  I’m aggressively pursuing the post level code as my own these days, doing my best to wrap my head around what the author did when writing this plugin, and more importantly, preparing myself to take over it’s continued development (since the original author has apparently stopped work [...]


Find sex offenders

http://www.familywatchdog.us
It’s somewhat disturbing.  Try it out.


The Most Extraordinary French Lemon Cream Tart

Makes 8 servings
1 cup sugar
Finely grated zest of 3 lemons
4 large eggs
3/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (from 4 to 5 lemons)
2 sticks plus 5 tablespoons (10-1/2 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature and cut into tablespoon-sized pieces
1 fully-baked 9-inch tart shell
Getting ready: Have an instant-read thermometer, a strainer and a blender (first choice) [...]


Lego NXT

I love legos, and apparently some of the NXT toys are Rube Goldberg cool.


RSS Tricks with Wordpress

Found an excellent post at Smashing Magazine about setting up Catagory specific feeds, I especially like two points in the post.  For those who are interested primarily in reading only the stuff on my Blog that is Nortel related for example, this technique is pretty cool.  I’ll have to incorporate this in to my theme.
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