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Word of the day

Google Mail tells me that the word of the day is “thaumaturgy”: “The performance of miracles or magic… Thaumaturgy comes from the Greek words for ‘wonder’ (thauma) and ‘work’ (ergon). A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a thaumaturgist or thaumaturge.” And a blog that chronicles such works would be “a thaumaturgical compendium.” The links to thaumaturgical [...]
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Redirect Loop in WordPress

In the “for what it’s worth” department… I’ve been periodically getting a “Redirect Loop” error in WordPress. I wasn’t sure what the source was. I tried the things you are supposed to do (deleting cookies, especially), and no luck. I went in via FTP and temporarily swapped all my plugins out of the plugins directory. [...]
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What I haven’t been blogging

Yes, I know it’s been a while. I started this semester out on the wrong foot, and have been scrambling for the last several months. If I haven’t answered your email (and there many hundred that need to be answered), I am very sorry. I promise I will get back to you. I considered email [...]
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Slow Blog Death

I have always claimed that I don’t look so much at my statistics for this blog, that I write for the sake of writing. That is mostly true. However, I probably should have been thinking a bit more about my readers over the last year or so. For one thing, I just found out that [...]
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Return of the Feed

Thanks to Jeremy for pointing out that a recent update of WordPress to 2.1 resulted in losing my RSS feeds. I think all is well now. I’ve cleaned up .htaccess to that it isn’t automatically forwarding to Feedburner, and I may get back to the autoforward at some point, but for now, all seems to [...]
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SPA Treatment

You may have noticed since my blogging haitus that I’ve added the Snap Preview Anywhere plugin. Lots of other people have as well, including wordpress.com. If you hover over any of the links on my site, you see a little thumbnail preview of where the link will take you. I’m not a big fan of [...]
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Comments return

Thanks for all of your comments on… my comments. I got about a dozen comments and they were all great. I implemented the following: 1. Create content that sucks. That way, you aren’t a good target. (I thought I was already doing that, but will redouble my efforts.) 2. Block a set of IPs recommended [...]
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