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April 2, 2019

WordPress Coding

April 2, 2019

Well, it's that time of year again, time to renew the web hosting. And for those of you that don't know, that has become a lot more expensive than it used to be. Fifty dollars a year is now several hundred. Not to mention the price of domain names has gone up ten-fold.

And I just found out that the nice folks at PayPal disabled all my Support buttons, and I never got a notice (although that may be my fault.) In any case, it is all working again now, so if you would like to make a small donation to help defray these costs, it would be greatly appreciated.

Getting back in the saddle - I wrote the PHP code for the sidebar navigation, as nothing very good seems to exist in the WordPress world.

The main navigation node at the upper-right shows the path to where you're at with a breadcrumb trail, the page you're on, and any siblings and children. It also incorporates the Blog.

The Recent list shows all recently-edited pages and posts. A Random section picks out random pages and posts, which is interesting since this site is huge and growing.

I also wrote a SiteMap function to lay out the whole thing at once, or by section.

Got the last of the old material added to the new site. Added "Recent Updates" and "Random Links" to navigation. Started playing around with user polls. This site can do everything [that other site] can do, much better.

The old online forum has become really moribund. I wanted to see the last of my contributions there sink out of sight fast, but I guess I'll have to settle for slow.

Web Stuff, 04/2/19

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August 29, 2020

Ribbed Mussels

August 29, 2020

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The Ribbed Mussel is a cousin to the edible Blue Mussel. The main difference is that Blue Mussels are found out in the clean ocean, while Ribbed Mussels are found in smelly marshy places. And the ribs. So you wouldn't want to eat a Ribbed Mussel. Actually, I don't care for Blue Mussels either, but back in my diving days I used to collect them because back at the dock you could trade them with the fishing boats for tuna steaks and all kinds of good stuff. Like trading gravel for gold. Blue Mussels form a thick layer over almost anything solid, and the ones I got were much bigger and better than anything I ever saw in the store, where they are also very expensive.

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