August 29th, 2006
Information from Apple’s Web site.
Apple has determined that certain lithium-ion batteries containing cells manufactured by Sony Corporation of Japan pose a safety risk that may result in overheating under rare circumstances.
The affected batteries were sold worldwide from October 2003 through August 2006 for use with the following notebook computers: 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4
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August 28th, 2006
Informit.com puts another chapter on its site.
I just stopped by the Informit.com Web site to check their listings for my work. (They list all of my in print books for Peachpit Press, as well as articles I’ve written for them and excerpts from my books.) I found that they’d put another excerpt from my
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August 23rd, 2006
Two ways to get the job done.
One of the features I included in my personal WordPress-based site (
www.marialanger.com) is a listing of the 20 most recent posts. You can find this list in the sidebar of the Home page.
I created this list with the following code in the
sidebar.php template file:
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The
type parameter tells WordPress to show individual posts. The
limit parameter tells WordPress how many posts to display. You can set this number to anything you like.
I wanted to include this same feature on
wickenburg-az.com, a site I maintain with information about the town I live in, Wickenburg, AZ. Unfortunately, that site makes full use of the
Event Calendar plugin to display a list of upcoming events in the sidebar. Although the plugin is configured so events to not display on the Home page, it's impossible to prevent recent event titles from being included when using the
wp_get_archives tag -- there's no
exclude parameter. And since clicking one of those titles would display a very boring two-line description of the event, I didn't want those titles included in the list of recent posts.
What's the solution? Well, I already had the
Customizable Post Listings plugin installed on wickenburg-az.com. This plugin offers flexible ways to list posts in the sidebar. All I had to do was figure out the parameters to include all categories except the one set aside for Event Calendar.
I fiddled around with it a bit and came up with this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function c2c_get_recent_posts() in /home/content/t/h/e/theflyingm/html/mariasguides/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()'d code on line 17
Blogroll Links
I tweak some settings to support more blog links without using up too much sidebar space.
This site doesn’t include a lot of links to blogs. One of the reasons for that is that I’m extremely particular about the sites I link to. I don’t link indiscriminately. I only link to sites I think are worth
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