Monthly Archives: July 2004

Emergency SMTP Server for OS 10.3

Posted on 25.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

PostfixEnabler is a small utility that allows you to use your OSX machine as an SMTP server to send e-mail when you cannot use your regular SMTP server.

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Tagged application, easy, fast, osx, postfix, postfixenabler, quick, server, smtp, software, Software and Tools, trick, utility, workaround | Leave a comment

U-Blog, Six Apart, and Their Angry Bloggers

Posted on 21.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

This very long post is, for the first time in English, a pretty complete account of what has been going on with U-blog and Loïc Le Meur in the French blogosphere for some time now. With the acquisition of Ublog by Six Apart, these problems are bound to take another dimension for the English-speaking blogosphere.

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Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged angloblogosphere, angry, aurora, blog, blogosphère, Blogosphere Interest, community, complain, divide, english, Essay-Like, features, francoblogosphere, french, gloaguen, history, language, Languages / Linguistics, laurent, le meur, loic, movable type, post, problem, promise, six apart, trouble, typepad, u-blog, ublog, unhappy, weblog | 79 Comments

Easier TopicExchange Trackbacks for WordPress

Posted on 19.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

A WordPress hack which makes it quicker to add TopicExchange channels to trackback, and makes them visible (like categories) in the weblog. (Sorry for the duplicate postings, trying to fix it.)

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Tagged categories, easy, fast, field, post, quick, Real Live Code, topic exchange, topicexchange, trackback, visible, weblog, Weblog Technology | 15 Comments

Converting MySQL Database Contents to UTF-8

Posted on 18.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

I finally managed to convert my WordPress database content to UTF-8. It’s easy to do, but it wasn’t easy to figure out.

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Posted in Wordpress | Tagged command line, convert, database, encoding, error, iso-8859-1, latin-1, max_allowed_packet, mysql, Real Live Code, restart, utf-8, Weblog Technology, Wordpress | 95 Comments

Paléo Festival Nyon

Posted on 17.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

Je serai à  Nyon mardi, mercredi, jeudi et dimanche. Faites signe si vous avez envie qu’on s’y retrouve!

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Posted in Music, My corner of the world, Personal | Tagged Announcements, festival, Music, My corner of the world, nyon, paléo, Personal | Leave a comment

Six Apart rachète U-blog

Posted on 15.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

Six Apart achète la société Ublog. Dommage que Ublog n’ait pas fait part de l’annonce directement à  ses utilisateurs.

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Tagged achat, annonce, Blogosphere Interest, compagnie, déplore, journaux, le meur, le solliec, loic, médias, rachat, six apart, sixapart, société, stéphane, u-blog, ublog, vente, weblog, weblogging, weblogueur | 67 Comments

Ces blogueurs qui arrêtent…

Posted on 14.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

Pourquoi les weblogueurs cessent-ils de bloguer? Par manque de lectorat, certes, mais je me demande si une attitude de l’ordre de “que vais-je donc écrire sur mon blog aujourd’hui” ne joue également un rôle dans le risque d’abandon de weblog.

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Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged 20six.de, abandon, arrêt, attitude, blog, Blogosphere Interest, blogtalk, blogueur, chercher, conference, daniel jörg, écrire, facteur, fin, lecteurs, quoi, risque, stefan glänzer, Wanted | 39 Comments

The Lee Bryant Experiment

Posted on 13.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

An account of the “Lee Bryant Experiment”, where I posted his write-up of his talk into SubEthaEdit bit by bit as he was talking. Some ideas about note-taking, talking, presentations, and write-ups.

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Posted in Conferences | Tagged along, bit, blogtalk, blogtalk2, blogtalk2004, lee bryant, notes, paste, piece, Psychology / Sociology, Software and Tools, subethaedit, talk, Theories | 10 Comments

Batch Categories 0.9

Posted on 13.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

Batch Categories for WordPress has been fixed and enhanced. If you have major category jobs to do, it can probably help you. Feedback and testers welcome.

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Posted in Wordpress | Tagged admin, Announcements, batch, categories, category, hack, plugin, post, printscreen, Real Live Code, screen, Wanted, Weblog Technology, Wordpress | 201 Comments