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12/29/2004

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:57 pm
(filed under category MacOS Support=> Projects)

advised d goldharber on new macintosh purchase
advised j menon on mac video software purchase
met with g silverstein to upgrade his mac os and applications

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12/27/2004

More Wordpress hacking

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:44 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

edited wordpress mysql table options, replaced home value with http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/wordpress/?Page=. , changed blogfilename to default.php
edited wp-settings.php, changed the line $querystring_start = ‘?’; to $querystring_start = ‘&’;
edited default.html, pulled out the Justin buffer rewrite code (above changes [...]

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Windows Downloads Report

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:54 pm
(filed under category Documentation=> Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

Finally deployed the "Display by Category" features of the Software Downloads page (https://www.uvm.edu/software). Calculated stats.
Back on July 1, CIT quietly updated both the format and the function of the CIT Software Downloads page at https://www.uvm.edu/software . On December 27, the pages were [...]

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Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:51 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Documentation=> MacOS Support=> Projects)

advised g Silverstein on the merits of upgrading his OS 9 system to OS X
wrote short newsletter article
more wordpress hacking

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12/22/2004

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:51 pm
(filed under category MacOS Support=> Projects=> Video and Audio)

transferred burlington hazecam images from chipmunk to weasel to make movie
answered Quicktime file format questions from d wang
addressed issue with browser support for construction webcam display pages

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12/20/2004

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:32 pm

helped student with Final Cut Pro project in art lab
addressed an issue with landscape change display Warning: getimagesize(): Read error! in /…/uvm.edu/fs/perkins/landscape/LS_FullDisplayM.php on line  102
answer VPN questions for a quinn

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12/15/2004

Construction Webcam

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:53 pm

Lauck Parke and others approached me about installing a webcam to watch the construction near Living/Leanring. Kim parker purchased and configured an Axis 2100 network camera. I cleaned up a few items in the configuration
On Dec 6, 2004, at 9:10 AM, Kim Parker wrote: [...]

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Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:03 pm
(filed under category ElectronicArts=> Projects)

met with kathy to work on electronics projects

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12/14/2004

posting to blog via email part iii

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:21 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

Well all fine and dandy, but… …I can’t send mail to my "spare server" when off campus because of the stupid firewall. But for all practical purposes, my laptop is a "spare server." It has php, it has cron, it has mail, I have root access. So, step one, create a blog [...]

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Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:58 pm

met with carol miller to rip material off of dvd
worked on email posting to blog

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12/13/2004

More on mailposting

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:26 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

now, should I hack the wp-mail code to allow it to parse the subject
line for a category? guess it depends on how often I’m really going to
categorize my postings.
well, enough for one day. there will be other days.
Here’s how I spent my week-end:
http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0412b&L=skivt-l&D=1&O=A&P=11643
and
http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0412b&L=skivt-l&D=1&O=A&P=18166
(a real blog)

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Can I post via email? You Bet!

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:42 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

The nice thing about posting via email is that my mail (Apple Mail) is
all configured to spell check. Nothing i hate worse than misspelled
blogs).
Now, this works for me because I have a spare server that I can set up
to 1) accept mail 2) deliver mail via pop3 and 3) run the [...]

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Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:32 pm

answered questions about getting video off of a DVD
figured out how to make mail-posting to my blog work
wrote short newsletter article

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12/9/2004

Cyclos

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:17 pm

trying to get the "new" version of cyclos running — but what IS tthe new version…from an email exchange….
Wesley, I contacted Hugo at cyclos and asked him if they had tested the upgrade. This was his response, the only suggestion he had was to be sure that the actions.sql script is run [...]

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BlogHack

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:15 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

hacking about in wordpress-in-a-template (gosh, what happens when the UVM template is replaced by some other content management system?). Cleaned up my default.php, looked at a couple of the wordpress template tags (ya know, all the UVM template system needs is a) an API and b) a web interface to the configuration files and whamo [...]

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