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  • Tongfamily Templates

    MovableType lets you have a set of templates that it uses to generate actual files. Here’s a list of mine so folks can see how this site is constructed. With MT tags being so complicated, this seems pretty useful to me. So maybe others like “John”:http://www.theludwigs.com could do it. By the way, these are .tmpl…

  • MT Categories

    TEMPLATE TAGS. It has taken quite a bit of time, but I finally have gotten my categories right on this site. Now that I’ve resolved the mt.js problem, I resorted the categories logically. But, the big change is learning about this wonderful tag MTEntriesWithSubCategories In your category archive, you replace the MTEntries container that gives…

  • Buttons don't work for some functions

    Buttons don’t work for some functions. _Wow, this is a case where tech support really does work. Sent a note to the folks at sixapart because I couldn’t get some things to work, quite a subtle bug and hard to find since this help item isn’t indexed well and I was sure where to look._…

  • ATI HDTV Adapter on Mitsubishi WS-73903 RPTV

    https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1271. I’ve been struggling to get my ATI 9800 Pro to connect to my Mitsubishi 73509 television. It is an older thing, but supports 1080i, 540p, 480p and of course 480i. But, I can’t seem to get it going. This is one of those $30 products with DIP switches. You connect one to the DVI…

  • iPod BSOD

    d2r: how to reboot an iPod photo. Well, the things aren’t perfect, I got the “Black Screen of Death” on my iPod Photo yesterday. Had it and it was working fine, put into my pocket and then got ready to play in the car and it sat there completely blank. No Apple logo, no nothing.…

  • Nothing Fails

    Jem Biography on Yahoo! Music. OK, who would have thought Jem is from Wales and when she ended up in London, one of her first collaborations led to one of our other favorites songs, Nothing Fails by Madonna. Who would have thought? Alex has great taste in Music. bq. Two days into her first writing…

  • MTInlineEditor

    MtInlineEditor – Movalog Plugins – Trac. What a great idea. This is an inline editor, so that you can look at your blog and if there is a typo, you can directly type into the entry.

  • Windows Safe Mode

    CHSAFE: Getting into Windows Safe Mode. I always forget the exact key sequence to get Windows into safe mode. I need this quite a bit when I switch monitors since Windows can lock into a higher resolution than an LCD can display (for instance right now I have a machine that is at 1280×1024 while…

  • Besweet

    BeSweet. This is *the* tool for transcoding audio. In my case, I have MP3s that are encoded from CDs at 44.1KHz, but to use it for DVD, you need to transcode it to 48KHz. There are lots of tools for this, but the most common one that is a standalone utility is besweet. You download…

  • Resetting Activity Logs

    Interesting to see that for my blogs, I’ve got gigantic activity logs, I’ve never looked at them and they are filled with errors. With Firefox, I found that it just thrashes with gigantic files. Gets to be 500MB of swap and then just seems to slow. This is one area where Internet Explorer is better,…