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Displaying blog posts on a static page

(WordPress tech stuff)
Hooooooly shit all I wanted to do was make a splash page for a blog. More or less.
Making the front page a static page is very easy to do (Settings > Reading).
Making a page with all the blog posts (that used to be on the front page)…… is also pretty simple: you just [...]

How to delete an autocomplete url in Safari

Autocomplete is convenient, but sometimes it remembers too much: typo’d urls, dead links, nsfw sites…
To get rid of the offending url:

Go to History > Show all history in the menu.
Find the url (there’s a search bar on the upper right if you need it).
Delete it.

To edit web form autofills, go to Safari > Preferences, and [...]

Test for pingback stats

Don’t click on this link til the NYT article comes out, it’s a secret!
MCC
(does anyone know if the wordpress.com stats plugin shows results in real-time?)

ScribbleAS3_v2++

This is the original ScribbleAS3_VectorV2 (quite similar to ScribbleAS3, but less spotty) (click & drag, space to clear):

Which is cute, but what if you wanted to draw something like this!!!

Now you can! Click & drag. Space to start over. If you make anything neat, please take a screenshot & post a link the comments! Thx!

Floating columns

I was trying to use CSS to make a 3 column layout, but the footer kept bouncing up. (Note: none of the heights are defined, because the content is dynamic.)
It didn’t make sense at first, but floating a div seems to set the height at 0. Which kind of makes sense. After lots of swearing, [...]

ScribbleAS3++

Don’t tell me this isn’t worth more than banner-ad-resizing skillz. YO. fkg. no no i really am working on something i swear, The Manhattan Cocktail Classic will be up, ALIVE, soon! and it’s got a swell little template that knows what categories posts are in and displays them in the right place — randomly and [...]

Why is Tumblring so Fun?

It seems kind of unnecessary, like Twitter. And it’s more or less the same as the “WordPress This” bookmarklet… I should probably go outside more.