The blog of Matthew A. Smith and Michael Chappell, on topics from A to Z

Entries from March 2008

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5

by Matthew Smith · March 31st, 2008 · 3 Comments

I just finished upgrading to the newest version of Wordpress. So far, I must say that the administration back-end has received a fantastic overhaul and I’m enjoying the new features so far.

I will soon update the theme to take advantage of the new features, but until then I can’t really comment on the coding aspects [...]

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Categories: Site Updates

The Royalist Party?

by Matthew Smith · March 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Read this page and you might be a little confused. Apparently the author wishes to bring monarchy to the United States enough to write a web page (in some form of what appears to be Middle English) all about it. Go read and then bring me your thoughts (in the form of comments).

I hope one [...]

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Categories: General

Fourteen Days

by Matthew Smith · March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Good heavens, the last post I made was two weeks ago! I suppose I have a little bit of explaining to do.

Over the past two weeks, I have had spring break, done a lot of maintenance on the BMW, DJ’d two parties, gone camping, had a job interview, and just plain grown older. Hopefully [...]

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Categories: General

Dynamic Loading with eval()

by Matthew Smith · March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

I may not be able to explain how cool this is, but I’m going to try.

Right now I’m working on a replacement for the nasty VBScript I posted a while back that updates the software installed on the computers at work. Sure, the script did it’s job but it wasn’t pretty to look at and [...]

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Categories: Technology

Spring Break!

by Matthew Smith · March 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Yes, it’s now one day into my spring break. What am I doing? Why, staying in Macon and spending all my money on the BMW!! It’s time for the 100,000 mile overhaul, so I will be busy in the garage (once my parts arrive). If you’re in Macon, be sure to call!

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Categories: General