Got Wills

 

Well, I finally figured it out. It appears that the OpenID plugin is not compatible with the Contact Form ][ plugin I was using.

 

It's always worked great with registration and stuff, but never worked for me to use it as my OpenID server. I had figured it had something to do with me not having curl support built into PHP.

I just figured I'd check the error log today, right after I tried it again, and saw a lot of errors with various plugins. Well, I don't know if I can live without all those plugins, but let's deactivate them and see if it works. Wow, it worked...

After activating them again one at a time, I found it was Contact Form ][ that was causing the problems. Great, I went and found a different contact form plugin, Contact Form 7, and it is working great, as is OpenID.

I was just reading through the April issue of Website Magazine and found an article about Dofollow Blogs. I wasn’t aware of it, but most blogs add a rel="nofollow" attribute to links inside comments. I checked this blog, and lo and behold, it did the same thing. I didn’t like that at all, link love is one of the few benefits you get for reading and commenting on blogs. So, I immediately went to work to fix this.

The first solution I found was a plugin (more like 10 of them). I was scanning through them to find one that would definitely work with WordPress 7.1 and stumbled across an article on Perishable Press that explained how to do it without a plugin.

So I SSH into my server and find that the file mentioned in the article doesn’t exist in this version. Hmm, this article was written in 2007, I imagine WordPress has changed some since then. So, I take a guess at which file might hide the functions with the offending nofollow… and what do you know? I found it my first try.

So anyway, here’s the good stuff you’ve been waiting for. To make your WordPress 2.7.1 blog DoFollow just edit the file wp-includes/comment-template.php line 148:

From:

$return = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>$author</a>";

To:

$return = "<a href='$url' rel='external' class='url'>$author</a>";

Basically, take out the nofollow and preceding space.

To future commenters (and past commenters), you now get some link love. Thank you for reading and taking the time to comment.

Just changed my theme… again (don’t know if anyone noticed, I changed it 4 days ago, as well). Anyway, after some minor reconstruction, I think it looks pretty good.

I do still need to do something about the pictures being too wide for the content column and I’d like to get another picture of the kids up there. I’m sure I’ll figure something out, when I have a few spare minutes.

I’ve had my new Omnia about a week now and I really like it. I don’t even miss the physical keyboard of my Q9c (I really thought I would). The haptic feedback and xt9 spelling correction make the onscreen keyboard very functional. Of course, you’ll want to shut off xt9 when typing non-standard words (very easy with a key dedicated to it). The virtual mouse makes it so that I almost never need the stylus, but I have it hooked to my keychain (just in case), instead of the loop on the side of the phone. I’ve also mapped the menu button long press to a little program that switched the d-pad thing between normal d-pad and virtual mouse functionality.

I’m really hoping that Verizon Wireless makes good on their promise (if, in fact, this statement is from a Verizon Rep) to open up stand-alone GPS for the Omnia, but even if they don’t, there will be custom ROM on the web that will do it soon after the first update.

Here’s a list of software I’ve installed, so far (with links).

• S2U2
• S2V
• Adryn Modified Black ST2 Theme
• G-Alarm
• Seismo – Cool, but gives error on shutdown – need HTC dll’s
• Google Maps
• Google Mobile Search
• WMWifiRouter
• Kaisoft Bubble Level (trial)
• Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5
• Microsoft Internet Sharing
• MoDaCo AppToDate
• PHM Registry Editor
• pocketMax lunarTilt – gives error on shutdown – need HTC dll’s
• Pocket Rar
• Resco Bubbles (first 5 levels free) – Really fun game…
• QuickMark
• BeMario
• YouTubePlay

I’m also using the Samsung Today 2 today screen item (not available on Verizon Omnia by default, use registry hack to get it).

S2U2 handles my caller id and generally works great, although there have been a couple missed calls due to it wiggin out on me.

Sound quality is fantastic and it feels solid in my hand… I just carry it in my pocket and it doesn’t appear to have any scratches or anything, yet. We’ll see how that goes.

A standard mini or micro USB port would have been nice, but I’ll live with the proprietary one they gave me.