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07 June 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Cool Google Map Plugin for WordPress

I’ve been experimenting with the Google Maps Plugin and it is pretty cool. Easy to use, and works with WordPress 2.1 and 2.2 It’s been very handy on my LivinginOsaka.net blog, instead of trying to explain exact directions I can now just post rough directions plus a map. You can see an example in use [...]

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22 May 2007 ~ 3 Comments

Oboeyasui.com morphs

The mini project I had, morphed into something different. I felt I could do something more with the domain, something more beneficial to the community and so I did. I asked for some suggestions from friends and with their ideas created a new site. oboeyasui.com is like tinyurl except that you can specify your own [...]

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22 May 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Upgraded to WordPress 2.2

I upgraded to WordPress 2.2 a couple of days ago.  I lost my upload dialog box on the post page and it was a plugin (Flickr Photo Album by Joe Tan) that was clashing.   I disabled it and the upload dialog came back. The main feature I am looking forward to using in 2.2 is [...]

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07 May 2007 ~ 0 Comments

DOM Scripting

Wow, if only all computer books were written in the same way. I received and am reading DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith and although I’m only on Chapter 3 everything is snapping into place and just makes sense. I’ve always though of the DOM and DOM programming as something dense and complicated but since reading [...]

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06 May 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Oboeyasui.com (Mini-project)

I have a mini-project called oboeyasui.com. In Japanesese “oboeyasui ” means easy to remember. I registered the domain so that I could create a personal portal linking all the blogs/sites and other places you can find me on the net. For my Japanese speaking friends http://oboeyasui.com/ian should be easy to remember. I’m still trying to [...]

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