Mature, refined and elegant. Almost, but not entirely unlike the geek equivalent of a good wine.
I’m a sensitive soul with computers. Whilst I appreciate the incredible power and capacity that modern computers provide, I cannot help but remember those hazy days during my youth when I learned how to program. My first computer was modest by today’s standards – a
So how does WordPress fill this tiny pocket of the big machine? Today I’m looking at the memory footprint of WordPress 2.0.2. How efficiently does WordPress use its most precious resource?
Paying attention to printed page appearance.
A new plugin is running here which offers in-line post editing. It will offer a lot more soon. See also: blogramthing, blog-ram-thing, The Blog RAM Thing
? posted 14th March 2006.
Congratulations. Happy Sixteenth! From today you may take your first steps into the big, wide world.
There are many things you are free to do now, such as earn money, get married, smoke, buy condoms, join the armed forces, run a business and maintain your own home.
Unfortunately, until you can enter into a credit agreement, drive, vote and drink in pubs, no-one takes you seriously! So, have great fun with all your mates practicing for the next couple of years.
No drinking in pubs! Such injustice! You’ll just have to wait until university. 
Dear Google,
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It’s not an embarrassment to brush up on your diving skills if you’ve been out of the water for a while. It is an embarrassment when your once well-honed demonstration skills devolve to
A video hides a lot of swearing…
Turing Test 2: No. Are you?
Turing Test 1: No.
They’re new and they’re all the rage!
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By far the most important component of WordPress, as for any The Loop
or engine
. The purpose of the Loop is to select from the available content that which the reader has requested then deliver that content, item by item, through the rest of the processing system. In short, the Loop decides what posts can be seen.
The WordPress loop is to most blog owners, I suspect, a few lines of barely-comprehensible code in some of their theme files. This is a good thing. Most blog owners, like most car owners, prudently avoid disaster by going nowhere near the engine. Other blog owners however, like some car owners, are intolerably curious as to how things work and don’t mind breaking things for fun.
I won’t go anywhere near a real engine, but a software engine poses no threat to my fingers, so in I go.
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