libertus

Paying attention to printed page appearance.

They’re new and they’re all the rage! Widgets for WordPress are here and they have something to do with the sidebar of your blog. Well, what exactly?
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By far the most important component of WordPress, as for any CMS, is The Loop or engine. The purpose of the Loop is to select from the available content that which the reader has requested then deliver that content, item by item, through the rest of the processing system. In short, the Loop decides what posts can be seen.

The WordPress loop is to most blog owners, I suspect, a few lines of barely-comprehensible code in some of their theme files. This is a good thing. Most blog owners, like most car owners, prudently avoid disaster by going nowhere near the engine. Other blog owners however, like some car owners, are intolerably curious as to how things work and don’t mind breaking things for fun.

I won’t go anywhere near a real engine, but a software engine poses no threat to my fingers, so in I go.
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This picture may tell a thousand words where The Google AdSense Team will utter not a one. So far I’ve had no response from a human concerning my lost revenue from valid clicks.

The irony may be, I found The AdSense Insider by clicking through a Google ad on here!

See also: Sellout posted 1^st November 2005

Dear Igor et. al,

PAY ATTENTION! YOU ARE IN TROUBLE. YOU ARE BREAKING BRITISH LAW.

For some time now, you and others like you have been attempting to use my blog to sell drugs. The drugs you sell are available only by prescription in the UK which is where I am based. Your attempts to sell drugs only available by prescription through my blog is breaking British law, or worse, asking me to break it for you. so YOU MUST STOP.

My blog has a readership which includes children, my own in particular. Was it your childhood dream to make a living pushing pills to kids, Igor?

May I help you do something better with your life?

Yours sincerely,

Paul Mitchell a.k.a Libertus, Sheffield, UK

There are people in the world who have never even seen a computer.
There are people in the world who have seen computers but have no idea how to use them.
These people are all over the world, of all ages, all cultures and all creeds.
They know no boundaries but one.
They are barred from here.
The internet.
Technology.

Imagine being barred from something so powerful, so wonderful, so easy because of something as simple as a keyboard, mouse and monitor. And it’s your fault for being stupid.

How would that make you feel?

Thus begins a revolution.

Libertus winks at Bellman and Cornz.

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In the conjuring discussion, I offer an analysis of the security-related changes in the as-yet-unreleased WordPress 1.5.3.

This is my work and my report.

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How would you prefer your attention drawn to it?

Hello! Hello! Aaaaaaaachoo!

Breaking glass.

Please cast your vote on my kuro5hin diary.

I’m open to argument.

Could sending more children to state-sponsored faith schools tip the balance one way or the other?

Watch Google squirm.

Hot off the press! Al’s done it! Transcended the ranks, no more lifting tanks, getting no thanks or pulling silly pranks.

Congratulations. A new Instructor is born. Read all about it on Al’s blog.