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Tags in Ecto3 with WordPress 2.3+

Mr. Tijsseling replied with a link to the infinite-sushi support forums explaining how to setup and use the native tagging feature in WordPress. Nice. Meta note: For access to the n3wblog’s tags, use the tag cloud in the navigation section in the footer or click on the tag links next to a post in single [...]

Ecto 3 Hello World Post

I’ve been following Adriaan Tijse… Adrian Tissel… Ado’s Twitterstream for awhile eagerly looking forward to the latest version of Ecto, my favorite desktop blogging software. Version two’s been relatively unchanged for a couple of years now with an update last year to provide Intel support and some new toolbar icons at some point before that. [...]

Vienna, Please Stop The Refreshment

Just this week I noticed something funny happening with my feedreader of choice, Vienna (using the beta, 2.2.0.2200). It won’t stop refreshing. I’m pretty sure this happened after moving my database back over to my desktop from my MacBook (via a handy Automator script I have for just such a purpose), but if it had [...]

wtf is mds?

lately I’ve noticed my MacBook Pro has been a little sluggish. Calls to top or Activity Monitor consistently show ‘mds’ or ‘mdimport’ as the culprit in my CPU ownage. These belong to Spotlight. a little web search turned up some help on the ever-practical MacInTouch.com from Jeff Hirsch. 1) Using the mdutil command-line utility in [...]