From the monthly archives:

March 2008

Sapped

March 8, 2008

Whew. What a long day yesterday was. After Thursday’s really good sap run and all that yummy sap we collected, we finally got the evaporator together. It wasn’t too complicated, except that there wasn’t an instruction sheet or anything (grrr!), so we had bought the wrong thickness of firebrick. We decided to just put it [...]

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WordPress Page Template Gotcha

March 6, 2008

In setting up the Localvore blog I needed to duplicate some of the custom pages that I made for this site. The categories page was the first. Lo and behold, when I went to select a custom template for the page I was writing, not only were there none, but the select box was also [...]

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Pig Tales

March 3, 2008

When we last wrote, we were expecting the pigs to farrow any day. Well, we woke up Saturday morning (Feb. 16), I let the dogs out and they started barking their fool heads off immediately, so we knew something was up. Sure enough, we had piglets, who were squealing and crying, which is what the [...]

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WordPress MU Experiment Fails

March 1, 2008

I’ve decided regretfully that WordPress MU is not suitable for our application. It apparently does what it is designed for well. Unfortunately what it does is not what I want done. WPMU is a wrapper around WordPress that allows a single WP installation to support ridiculous numbers of blogs in a single DNS tree. That [...]

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