I  spent almost all day Tuesday installing a new database and reinstalling WordPress and importing the old posts over at North Carolina Mountain Dreams. I am still working at putting all of the pieces back together over there…You know, side bars and widgets and all of that bloggy stuff.

Next up is a cleaning up of [...]

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It seems the culprit in my WordPress upgrade problems was a plugin called “Events Manager” Version 2.0rc1. Once I disabled this plugin my menu problems went away on my North Carolina Mountain Dreams Blog.
Now this cannot be the only problem because Virginia Mountain Dreams still works fine…Both blogs use the same theme, same plugin list, [...]

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I finally bit the bullet and upgraded this site to the new WordPress 2.6…I thought I was locked out of my own site…It took two days to figure out why I could not log in…user name and password were right…log in again was the prompt…over and over again…then on a users forum, a hint…force a [...]

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What, if anything, it says about me that this obit caught my eye this morning in the Post.
Albert Hofmann, 102; Chemist Discovered LSD – washingtonpost.com
Albert Hofmann, 102, a Swiss chemist and accidental father of LSD who came to view the much-vilified and abused hallucinogen he discovered in 1938 as his “problem child,” died April 29 [...]

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Well I finally took the plunge and upgraded my WordPress to the latest version. If you should happen to hit any glitches, please…please let me know…
It looks like I’ll be spending a little time figuring out what’s happening.

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Fragments From Floyd: June 2002 Archives
June 5, 2002
Summer LightningThe animals have been tended, my wife and son have left for work, and I am alone watching the first rays of a humid, empty day through the windows. I am in my slippers, merely waiting, early into my second month “between jobs”. Waiting: on epiphanies, [...]

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For all of us Newbie WordPress bloggers…Keyboard Shortcuts
Via Lifehacker
TipMonkies » Blog Archive » WP: KeyBoard Shortcuts
These are shortcuts you can use in the wordpress post editor.
Bold: Alt SHIFT b
Italics: Alt SHIFT i
Link: Alt SHIFT a
Blockquote: Alt SHIFT q
Code: Alt SHIFT c
Read More: Alt SHIFT t
Unordered List (ul): Alt SHIFT u
Ordered List (ol): Alt SHIFT [...]

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This image caught my eye yesterday so I dropped it here. What it reminded me of was a Mandelbrot Fractal like the ones I used to spend hours generating and exploring back a decade ago or more. The mathematics and graphics were so intensive on those old 286 and 386 Intel computers that [...]

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