Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category

Posted in Cats, Tips at 10:54 am February 10, 2008

V-day is coming this week and whether it is looked forward to or dreaded, those of us with beloved pets have to take some precaution to avoid having the day of love turn tragic. This information is also important to those who love pet lovers.
Valentine staples like chocolates can be delicious to us humans [...]

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Posted in Tips at 6:49 pm December 24, 2007

Happy Holidays to everybody!
If you still haven't been able to find a gift for the person who has it all, consider donating in their name to a cause that is near and dear to them. It's a gift times two since there are two recipients and gift-matching could increase its benefit even further. This results [...]

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Posted in Internet, Tips at 9:02 am October 1, 2007

For the third time in the past few weeks, I had an issue connecting to a site and the solution turned out to be completely not obvious: I deleted the cookies for the site. I tend not to like to delete cookies since I find it more convenient for (trusted) sites to remember me. Deleting [...]

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Posted in Coding, Tips, Wordpress at 10:11 pm September 29, 2007

archive.php (in the Wordpress theme folder) is the file that handles the output of posts grouped by categories, tags (in WP 2.3) and by dates. Since I have a wide variety of topics, I figured it would be helpful to provide feeds specific to a reader's particular interest(s). The problem was I didn't know how [...]

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Posted in Tips, Wii at 4:48 pm

Although I've played DDR years ago on my friend's Playstation (2?) and in the arcade at Dave & Buster's, I considered myself a newbie when I got my own copy of the game to play on my Wii console. If you're an expert, this post probably wouldn't be helpful to you, but if you'd like [...]

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Posted in Tips, Wii at 1:48 am August 7, 2007

On Monday, Nintendo made available an upgrade with a few minor and medium changes to the Wii's functionality and appearance. I won't add to all the places that provide a list of changes, but if you want to know more info, you can check out the Wii board in Nintendo forums.
I will write about the [...]

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Posted in Google, Tips, Wordpress at 1:18 am July 21, 2007

My Wordpress blog url structure for posts is of this pattern: /blog/year/month/date/post-title/
Ignoring the fact that a post could also show up in /blog/ and /blog/category/ and other places, the same post could show up in:
/blog/2007/
/blog/2007/07/
/blog/2007/07/21/
/blog/2007/07/21/post-title/
The duplication is not as big of a concern (to me) as the possibly poor user experience when someone encounters one [...]

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