Year: 2005

More WordPress goodies

I came across this excellent resource with a bunch of WordPress plugins. It doesn’t display very well in my Firefox, with titles being written in green over the green background, but if you can get over that, it has a lot to offer. For example, I’ve immediately downloaded and installed two plugins:

BAStats. It provides a nice way to see site statistics in a Dashboard tab. Browsers, referrers, hosts, requests, search strings and all the usual bits can be displayed over a selected period of time.
Comment Quicktags. This one provides buttons that help in editing comments. Making text bold or italic, linking to URLs, striking through words and blockquoting paragraphs can’t be any easier now.

And there are a few others that I am looking at and thinking if I need them or not and if I should try them on or or not.

New shoes

I’ve bought new shoes today. My mother would be way too glad to hear this.

You see, I’m not that kean about new clothes, or footwear for that matter. And I hate shopping. That is why I tend to choose something very comfy and practical and wear it until it tears into pieces. Even than, if it can still hold on me, I’ll wear it.

My old shoes kept holding for quite a while. My mother was pushing me into a new purchase as far as two years ago. Needless to say that she spent every free second during her last visit convincing me to visit the shoe shop. She didn’t manage to get me in though. When she realized that she was failing, she tried to scare me with the promise that she will send me something from Moscow without consulting me and withoug me trying those shoes on first. And that she’d insist on me wearing them. Oh, well. That didn’t scare me at all. She actually went into the shop trying to find something suitable and realized that it wasn’t that easy. Anyway, no she doesn’t have to.

Goodbye, old shoes, you served me well.

I’ll wear you only once again – for the upcoming KSP. :)

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-04-28_POTD

Crawling attempt

Every time we put Maxim on his belly, he uses his hands to hold his head and upper torso up. He can stay like this for a few minutes. He also attempts to crawl, moving his legs, trying to find something to push away from. When he gets tired, his head starts bouncing from side to side. He tries to catch it, which exsausts him even faster. And than, he just falls on his side (check the last picture in the album for the display of that). As far as the books suggest, he is developing slightly ahead of time. But that’s nothing to worry about, our pediatrician says.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-04-28_POTD

9 weeks

Today marks the end of 9th week of Olga’s and my parenthood. Times slow starts moving again and hopefully will catch up in a few weeks or month.

Maxim is growing and developing at a speed of light. He’s learning so much every day that I don’t even attempt to blog it all. New sounds, new looks, new moves – we are clapping our hands about something cute in the morning, and by the afternoon we don’t notice it anymore, because he is doing it all the time and he has learned a bunch of new stuff already. I’m thinking about making a short movie showing all of his activities (or at least those that he would display during the shooting time). I just have to find the video camera (but I think I know where from I will find it :) ).

From the list of major milestones, today was the first time we used bast whisp (I am not sure this is the correct turm, but it was the only one suggested by the dictionary) to wash Maxim. He was hand washed before, but now he is one step more into the adult life. I think he didn’t mind it at all.

Subversion and file permissions

I’ve been assigned to a new project at work today. It was decided to use Subversion for version control. I haven’t used Subversion before, though I’ve read a lot about it.

Few minutes into it, I’ve got my first question: “How can I make Subversion store file permissions and ownership?”. Googling for two seconds didn’t turn out any results, so I went straight to Subversion’s IRC channel (#svn @ irc.freenode.net). Here’s the answer that I got:

Subversion does not version permissions. There exist 2 wrapper scripts which you can use instead of “svn” for commit, checkout, update, etc., and store permissions in properties. They are: asvn and svn+perms. Last but not least there is a patch which adds the functionality into the svn core.

(I edited it a bit for the better linking).

Also, I’ve also been pointed to this blog.