I thought I would never require myself to comment on this subject, but the recent deluge of emails announcing anniversaries and milestone dates has prompted me into it. This is about the correct, and incorrect, usage of "anniversary". We all know what first anniversary means. It is the recurrence of an event - usually a very important event - on the exact date after a year the event took place. Thus, if a wedding took place yesterday, 9 … [Read more...]
Lightbox-ing: A new Postie experiment
A reader, Alex G, emailed in to ask how he can have his images display in a lightbox rather than open a separate post page. (Thanks for the query, Alex.) I must admit I have not considered a lightbox display for images sent from my mobile phone. When I install Postie in my blogs, I custom-configure the image display of the Postie plugin to show only a medium size image (which of course is dependent on your Media settings), and I have disabled … [Read more...]
Another email post with image to test Postie’s settings
Size of image 1024px wide, default setting is Media-specific size - medium 550px wide. Photo taken at Pitt St Mall in Sydney, 28 October. … [Read more...]
Image to test Postie’s default settings
This is an image sent from my mobile phone to test Postie's default image settings in relation to displaying an image with lightbox effect - after installing and activating Simple Lightbox to produce the lightbox effect. I am setting an image sized 1024px wide. My Media setting is medium sized 475px. … [Read more...]
Working around WordPress 3.2.1 with a MySQL lower than 5
The minimum requirements to run WordPress had been announced many months ago. The requirements are PHP version 5.2.4 and MySQL version 5.0, and the minimum requirements for WordPress 3.1 which at that time was yet to roll out was PHP 4.3 and MySQL 4.1.2. To date, I don't think everyone is ready yet to drop their old PHP and MySQL versions in favour of the required higher versions. Checking on the latest postings in WP.org support forum, … [Read more...]
1 million overseas absentee voters by 2012
In an email to The Filipino Australian, Global Filipino Nation reported that the Philippine Commission on Elections is targetting at least one million registered overseas voters by October 31 next year. The registration target, according to GFN, was disclosed in a Comelec forum held last October 5 with community leaders at the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco, California. GFN also reported that during the forum, actions on how … [Read more...]
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