Matt Millen Erie Connection?

Did anybody hear the Football Today Podcast on Oct. 9th?  Jeremy Green was talking with Bill Williamson about the Raiders.  When they got to the subject of possibly hiring a general manager, Matt Millen’s name came up and Jeremy Green said quote.

Its a long flight from Oakland back to Erie, Pennsylvania

So my question is this does Matt Millen reside here in Erie, PA and what is his connection here?

Bail-out … But Who?

If you have been following the Bail-out and have been more than a little confused. Check out the This American Life’s latest production: Another Frightening Show About the Economy.  It sheds a lot of light on the current situation. Also, for ongoing updates check out the Planet Money podcast/blog.

Back on grid… this home remedy really works

After leaving my cell phone out in the rain all night Tuesday I thought I would be shelling out for a new phone but thanks to these sites my phone has new life and I am once again connected to the rest of the world.  I had first read about this in Popular Mechanics.  And with that loged in the back of my mind I did a search and found this wikiHow article.

Officially an Erie-ite

I am now officially an Erie-ite. Once I get settled in a week or so I will update to 2.6 and begin updating Category-Visibility. Goal is to have a new version out mid to late August.  Have already been playing with 2.6 on a few other sites and like what I have seen. Also, keep an eye out for Eriedia.com soon to explode on the Erie scene….

AJSPS

And the people rejoice

As you all know the release of WordPress 2.5.1 has exposed a new bug in my Category Visibility plugin.  It causes the home page to show no results.  Sometimes you need to just step away from the code for a while and then when you come back the answer is so obvious it smacks you right in the face.  The culprit seems to be some left over code from my predecessors that did a check on the query variables before passing to the is_home join.  So the problem was not in the where but the join portion of the code. I haven’t yet tested older systems but it seems to work well with 2.5.1.  In this process I found 3 additional bugs so a more fleshed out version will be available soon.  However, I thought you all want your front pages back first.

Category Visibility Update

Franken CatVis SimpEx plugin

Temporary relief is here in the form of a mashup up of Simple Exclude by Paul Menard  and the List feature of Category Visibility by iPeat.  This is not an official release. Those of you who are brave enough, can try this out until either Paul or I can come up with a plugin answers all your needs.

• I have been trying to figure out what changed from 2.5 to 2.5.1 that has caused my where clause on the home/ main page to break  with little results.  In that time I have found the Simple exclude Plugin by Paul Menard, it accomplish most of the same goals with a very different method.
• To fill the hole that it misses I have mashed in part of my plugin.
• In doing so have found about 3 additional bugs in both mine plugin and his mainly having to do with categories and archives. Plus the absences of managing the Link Categories.

So I post this Alpha Plugin To help you get by

To install please follow these steps:

1. Reactivate Category Visibility if you have deactivated it.
2. Make sure all categories have been checked.
3. Deactivate Category Visibility.
4. Activate the Frankenstein Plugin.
5. List Category Visibilty can be found under Manage.
6. Simple Exclude can be found under Settings.

Category Visibility Update

FYI – After looking at a recent comment on my site it seems there is another option out there besides my Category Visibility called Simply Exclude. It looks like he is still having some bugs but his system is a little slicker than mine and it adds Page search exclusion. While it works with 2.5 like mine does it still isn’t in the 2.5 mind set with separate management for post, links, and tags. So, I am going to keep working on my 2.0 version.

Category Visibility Bug with the release of WP 2.5.1

The release of WordPress 2.5.1 has exposed a new bug in my Category Visibility plugin.  It causes the home page to show no results.  I have narrowed it down to the home where clause but haven’t figured out what is causing it yet. The rest of the plugin’s functionalities seem to be working fine so if you have upgraded and don’t use the front page functionality or don’t want to sacrifice the rest of the plugins functionality by deactivating it.  Simply make this change to the plugin and I will keep working on a fix to bring back the Front page functionality.

Change Lines 279 and 280 to:
//$where .= ” AND ($wpdb->term_taxonomy.taxonomy=’category’)”;
//$where .= ” AND (($cat_visibility.front=1 AND $lc”;

Alopecia Areata

Why that is all I have to say.

Thoughts…

One of my cohorts at work is one of those very inspiring people that tends to motivate anyone that he comes in contact with. And lately he has come up with this quote that is very true for me right now.

Vision with Action is a Dream come true; Vision without Action is a Nightmare

And everyday I think up a new thing that Erie needs, a new goal I want to accomplish, a new business plan that is sure to succeed, or a piece I like to create. By the end of each day I am right were I started and nothing has been accomplished.  I am so busy with my visions that they are becoming my nightmares.  At the bloggers meeting, someone asked want kind of blog is missing basically want does Erie need.  As usual I started spouting off all my ideas and he stop me to say than do it.  Of course, I came back with the lame excuse of not enough time. The more I thought about it though I have found that the time is there I just have to apply some action to one or two of my visions and not let the whole of them become my nightmare.

BTW… The Blogger’s meetup was at Pio’s Italian Resturaunt on the East side; very good food.