It’s been many years since I noted down my 25 most played songs (in iTunes, anyway). The list has an immense amount of inertia behind it, so there’s now things in that I typically skip, but enough has changed since the last posting that I think it has meaning. Also, I really don’t trust my… Read more
WordPress apparently has no understanding of time zones, at least in the sense that makes sense – it displays all times in the local time of the viewer (at least, I hope it does… the alternative is that it displays all times as PST, which would be highly suspect). So all my old, imported posts,… Read more
For Valentine’s day Marisa gave me a couple of things, including chocolate zombie heads. :D
It appears there’s simply no way to directly convert from iBlog to WordPress. Awkward. iBlog ostensibly has some ability to export the blog, but the relevant menu items are permanently greyed out. Likewise WordPress ostensibly has many plugins for performing HTML import, but they really suck (and also just ignore categories, tags and other metadata,… Read more
Thus far this [long] weekend I’ve spent an unhealthy amount of time just trying to make this look good. Installing WordPress itself is trivial, but then finding a half-decent theme, and then getting that theme to look exactly the way you want, is immensely time consuming and frustrating. For example, I want icons for each… Read more
I had a devil of a time trying to get Xcode to recognise my standard Core Data UIManagedDocuments, given they are bundles, not flat files. Turns out one of the keys was that your UTI must inherit from com.apple.package. I had rather more sensibly (IMHO) inherited from one of the built-in database UTIs. Silly me for… Read more
I’ve decided to finally get my website in order. Partly because of MobileMe’s impending closure, but also because I’ve wanted to resume blogging for a long time now, and especially so most recently because of my renewed interest in coding for pleasure. I’ll be moving the old site and most of its content over here… Read more