biscuit on April 11th, 2010

I have gardening chores to do, but I’m back. I’ll have more to say later.
Hi, Scotia, did you miss me? 

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Kate Petersen on May 1st, 2009

On May 5, 2009 at around 10:00PM CST, the site will be down for about 20 minutes while the server software is upgraded.

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Kate Petersen on December 15th, 2008

Welcome to the new PolitiCook. We’ve upgraded to the newest version, which has some really, really neat features. And the upgrade went as smooth as… well, you know.
HOWEVER… the back end looks very different from what you are used to!
UPDATE: Biscuit reminds me to tell you that you must [...]

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Kate Petersen on September 10th, 2008

The past several days we’ve been hit by robot random user registrations coming from eastern Europe. I’m investigating the possibility that this may indicate a SQL injection vulnerability, but in the meantime I’ve added a CAPTCHA feature to new user registration. That’s one of those annoying boxes where you have to type in [...]

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Kate Petersen on July 26th, 2008

On the left side, below Recent Comments, we now have a handy list of static reference pages.
I call your attention especially to the newest one: Top Fruits and Veggies to Buy Organic. I did not compile this list; the original came from the Environmental Working Group, but I wanted it handy where I [...]

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Kate Petersen on July 26th, 2008

Do not adjust your dial. I’m trying to set up the categories sidebar so it will nest the categories. At the moment it also pulls in every post made under each category — I’m working on that.
UPDATE: Done. Now if you click on the little arrow to the left of the [...]

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biscuit on May 24th, 2008

Last week, my comments were going missing, and AAF found them in our spam blocker.
And I just found comments by Anne and Scotia in there (btw, Anne, I like your link! I used the one I used because I’m just – well, overbooked! ) and de-spammed them.
Just let one of us know your [...]

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Kate Petersen on April 28th, 2008

Quick administrative note for those who may not be familiar with WordPress:
If you write a diary, the system automatically saves your draft at regular intervals. Or you can save it as a draft by clicking either the “save” button (returns you to the dashboard) or the “save and continue editing” button (keeps [...]

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Kate Petersen on April 4th, 2008

Now we have AJAX comments. Each comment has a “Reply” button under it. Click on it and it opens a box rather than taking you to the bottom of the screen to post a reply.
I need to dink a bit with the presentation, so don’t be alarmed if things look different at times [...]

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Kate Petersen on April 2nd, 2008

Every registered user of this site — Yes, this means you! and you!! — can write a diary and it’s automatically front-paged. No permission needed, no moderation required to make that happen.
We do ask that you keep your diaries more or less on topic for this site: food, wine/spirits/beer (Hey MF! [...]

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