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Archive for May 2004

farewell, puppy

Posted on 5/21/2004

Russ just took away the dog we found yesterday. I found myself sad to see them leave…that’s a good dog. but he’ll be living on four and a half acres out in the country, with two kids to play with.

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st. francis of olympia

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last night we were driving home from the grocery store and C. noticed a dog running across the (4-lane) road and up onto the freeway onramp. so he stopped (in the middle of the street!) and led the dog to safety (in a pr0n shop parking lot).
said dog was exceptionally mellow, a little skinny; […]

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very cool

Posted on 5/20/2004

I’ve been playing around with Phase for a work project, and so far I’m darn happy. it’s more complicated than Whisper, which I also like, but in a good way, particularly for this project, where there will be sub-menus and blog sections and several authors.
not that it’s not beta-y. the documentation is scarily […]

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the extra ingredient is love

Posted on 5/19/2004

today at lunch, I had a salad of arugula, spinach and radishes from my own garden, dug up first thing this morning, with a little bit of gorgonzola cheese. I’m foolishly proud of myself.
maybe if I make peanut curry for dinner I’ll cook a little spinach to do with it, too.
I keep telling myself […]

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oh, that’s how it works

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I realized last night that Shelley’s multi-blog hack is essentially a system for registering and switching between already-installed WP blogs. I have more thoughts about that, including maybe a path towards a grandiose hack for “real” multi-blog support, but that will have to wait. (I had a flash of inspiration last night in […]

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how to upgrade WP

Posted on 5/18/2004

this assumes you are already running a relatively stock install of WP 1.x, where x is less than 2.
# back up the folder where you have WP installed on your server and back up your database. there’s a script floating around that’s supposed to be a one-click solution for WP database backup, but I […]

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.