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A Sunday evening in mid-November

By On November 14, 2010 · 1 Comment

Instead of watching Tatort, I went for a short jog combined with lots of walking. I am still not back in my jogging routine. Yet.

But I am enjoying being outside. It was so beautifully warm today.

And. It is a good way to reflect.

Time for mind blogging.

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Auto upgrade from WP 3.0 to 3.0.1

By On August 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

For some reason I couldn’t auto upgrade from WordPress 3.0 to 3.0.1.

I kept getting an error message.

I decided to deactivate all plugins before starting the auto upgrade. È voilà. The install went thru.

I still had the auto upgrade plugin installed from 2.7 installed. Maybe that was the problem? Or another plugin [...]

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Installed WordPress 3.0

By On June 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Message from the Chiperoni admin:

I just installed WordPress 3.0. Everything seems to be running smoothly.

And I found a new minimal theme to try out: Carrington Text.

Me and WP go back a long way.

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Twitter for the masses

By On January 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I saw this retweet pointing to Jeremy Toeman’s article Will normal folks ever use Twitter?”. (By default that makes me un-normal….)

He makes an excellent point which matches my own experience. Most people don’t see the added benefit of using Twitter. [...]

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Auto-upgrading WordPress and the .htaccess file

By On December 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

A pattern I have observed in the past months:
A couple of days after auto-upgrading WordPress, access to the WordPress blog is blocked.

My non-programmer’s workaround is: Rename the .htaccess file on the WP level. The WordPress blog displays. Login and go to Settings > Permalinks and re-save settings, or copy old .htaccess [...]

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WordPress Woes

By On November 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I am having some problems with the .htaccess file on the WordPress level. I tried regenerating the permalinks. Hope that will help for a while.

A couple of days ago there was a lonely s at the end of the file. Amakhala scared.

And:
I am seeing a lot of “MySQL [...]

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Chiperoni goes Mobile (kind of)

By On November 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

As part of my ongoing research regarding internet access via low bandwidth connections, I saw App+frica displaying a mobile version at http://appfrica.net/blog/.

I installed the same MobilePress plugin and activated it a few minutes ago. Based on the plugin description, it should detect if you’re accessing the website [...]

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UTF-8, Charsets and WordPress

By On October 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

It seems charset and UTF-8 issues are following me around.

At the day job and here.

I moved my blog from one install to the other. After importing the MySQL db, several characters were no longer displaying correctly.

There are a number of plug-ins and descriptions:

How to [...]

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Social Media News Room

By On June 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Cyberwiter posted the above tweet on using social media to enhance your company’s online news room.

The article lists ways how to aggregate text, images, audio and video to make it useful for corporations and their target audience.

Ein gutgemachter Social [...]

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Broken WordPress Plugin Woes

By On June 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Message from the admin:

For a couple of days, the WordPress installation at Chiperoni was broken. The framework of the website was displaying but all content within a blog post or page had disappeared. I could see the content in the admin view.

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