It’s me speaking again. I am not going to ramble about stuff right now at this very “first” post after a century, and bore you with personal things. Just passing by and greeting everyone here. My blogging habits have gone through some serious ups and downs, all was related with primary activities in life. I considered everything and concluded for now that I may be ready to start blogging again, not fully engaged though.
The only thing I would like to let you guys know is the launch of our studio’s single-page site. Poenta. We’ll preparing a blog there too.
Finally, to formalize this I am putting this Play for Nature song and invite you to feel it together with me, wishing for a better world.
From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.
You probably didn’t hear of Don.Jezzy ever before, but he’s my beloved little brother. Ever since I gave him my Canon Rebel XSi camera as a gift, he has amazed me with his talent in creative digital photography and design. The subjects of the photographs he makes and/or creates vary from occasional shots to sudden or long thought ideas. In this post I will only show two of the recent ones he published in his photostream and I’m sure this is just the beginning of his journey, although he’s been on the scene for quite some time now. Hope you enjoy what you’re about to see.
Caught by neon ribbons!
Do you see anything now?!
Your comments and evaluations are of course well valued from me and from him. If you like what you just see here I encourage you to check out his Flickr Profile and don’t hesitate to drop off a comment, let that be appreciation or criticism. We’re open-minded and accept both.
Eleven months ago I had an idea about a WordPress feature which gives a user the opportunity to put blog into maintenance mode, or turning it On/Off in special occasions to be more exact. I didn’t hesitate to suggest it to the public WP community. For eleven months, except good willing WP users, nobody from WordPress team has ever commented or said anything about possibly implementing that in any of the upcoming versions. Indeed, that can be achieved by developing a custom plug-in, but most bloggers (me for sure) tend to avoid activating too many plug-ins because it plods blog performance.
What about self-pinging?
Right! I’m sure you should already be aware of what does the term ping stand for in blogging. According to this WikiPedia article ping is:
In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated.[1] An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more “ping servers,” which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post or updates an old one.
Now there’s this very requested feature (No-Self-Ping) that has been discussed a lot around the interwebs lately, but at the time of writing it is only available as a plug-in. Honestly, pinging your own blog posts is sometimes very annoying, however, some bloggers don’t mind that but some others really do. Hence, thankfully to No-Self-Ping by Michael Adams, the annoyance is long gone and forgotten. I just had to play around with WP Core files and have modified some of them to add this option in WP-Admin –> Settings –> Discussion Settings for the only reason of not being a fan of too-many-activated-plugins at once.
Wouldn’t you really appraise a neat feature like that, an optional setting that can be turned on and off based of each of us personal taste.
Now as for No-Self-Ping, it isn’t really a big deal though because it is the smallest plug-in I have ever come across until today, so it wouldn’t really decrease your blog’s performance much. Only seven lines of code for a very useful option.
As the title indicates, I am going to share with you what I had to do just yesterday after installing WAMP Server on my laptop where I run Windows 7 Beta Operating System. Honestly I never experienced this kind of trouble ever before but strange things happen regularly as we face technology on our day-to-day basis.
A little story first. I had WAMP services all running smooth and sound, however, whenever I typed http://localhost on any browser in my system, it returned a Page Not Found result. I was still able to access my local web server using 127.0.0.1, but then when it came to loading WordPress locally, no stylesheet was loaded and the page layout was totally naked. I may just assume that could also be tweaked by altering WordPress address (URL) in Admin –> Settings –> General page, but I preferred the standard approach so I had to dig deeper. If you ever happen to encounter the same issue then keep following me till the end of this explanation.
In every Windows OS there are two files, one called lmhosts.sam and the other hosts, lying deep inside C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc folder. Of course that differs for Windows NT editions, simply replace C:\Windows with C:\WINNT. Now lets get back to our task. I needed to tell Windows to consider localhost as I’d have entered 127.0.0.1 on the address bar. Hence I went and opened the hosts file in Notepad (you can use any text editor for this). All you have to do to fix the problem is go to the end of hosts content and make sure whether there is a line like this
127.0.0.1 localhost
If false, then type that in, just be sure to leave a space between the 127.0.0.1 address an localhost.
For some particularly strange reasons, after I did that WAMP still hesitated to work. So I pasted that into lmhosts.sam file too and the spell was gone.
Note: Keep in mind that normally these two files should already be configured by default once you install Windows, but this case is specific to Windows 7 Beta, therefore it’s not that strange to not be that way.
Did you experience such a problem? Were you able to fix it? Tell me your story, I’d be glad to read it.
