Author Archives: Jim Vanderveen

About Jim Vanderveen

I'm a bit of a Renaissance man, with far too many hobbies for my free time! But more important than any hobby is my family. My proudest accomplishment has been raising some great kids! And somehow convincing my wife to put up with me since 1988. ;)

Caitlin’s first gym meet

Posted on 2005-09-05 by Jim Vanderveen

Caitlin, my youngest, competed in her first gymnastics competition last weekend (2005-08-27), Judges’ Cup 2005. The meet was hosted by Technique Gymnastics at the CSUS gymnasium, which has no air conditioning. Fortunately the weather wasn’t nearly as hot as it … Continue reading →

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Marin Quilt Show

Posted on 2005-09-04 by Jim Vanderveen

On Saturday my wife and I took my mom to the Marin Quilt Show in San Rafael (Marin County), California. One of the highlights of this show (for me) of is the venue–it’s right across the pond from the Marin … Continue reading →

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Patch “how-to”, patch files fixed

Posted on 2005-09-03 by Jim Vanderveen

I don’t really do much Unix development, but I’ve recently been learning more due to the care and feeding of my blog. Lately I’ve been figuring out some things about the patch utility, especially creating and applying patches. I found … Continue reading →

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Upgraded to WordPress 1.5.2, patches [re-]applied

Posted on 2005-09-02 by Jim Vanderveen

I finally got around to upgrading my WordPress blog software to version 1.5.2 today. I also took this opportunity to apply Kimmo’s entity patch, which takes care of HTML entities ½ and ¾, and probably some others as well. At … Continue reading →

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Google-powered pedometer

Posted on 2005-09-01 by Jim Vanderveen

This is so cool! A Google-powered pedometer (or, in my case, a bike-o-meter). I can’t believe Joseph hasn’t blogged this already, since he’s the one who told me about this. Once you’ve arrived at the pedometer site, choose your country … Continue reading →

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Gaming organizers’ meeting

Posted on 2005-09-01 by Jim Vanderveen

Most (hopefully all) of the organizers of various Sacramento gaming groups, websites, et cetera, will be getting together for an organizational meeting on Sunday, the 11th at 5:30 PM. Our preferred meeting place, Fox & Goose, is closed on Sunday … Continue reading →

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Release date for Harry Potter book #7

Posted on 2005-09-01 by Jim Vanderveen

About three weeks ago, I got together with a few other Harry Potter fans to discuss the story. One of the topics that came up was the release date for the final book. Somebody (don’t remember who, sorry) said that … Continue reading →

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Displaying (vs executing) PHP code on web pages

Posted on 2005-08-31 by Jim Vanderveen

While working on an earlier post, I needed to find a way to display a PHP module on a web page without having it executed. I knew this was fairly simple and involved the .phps file extension, but I hadn’t … Continue reading →

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Footer plugin requirements, notes

Posted on 2005-08-31 by Jim Vanderveen

Reasons for a statcounter plugin, generalized to “footer” plugin, links to plugin-writing resources. Continue reading →

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SK2 blocking multiple pingbacks?

Posted on 2005-08-30 by Jim Vanderveen

Spam Karma 2 rocks! Have I said that already? Well, not in so few words… But I just noticed something. I wrote a post last night with multiple references to my own blog–in this case, I refered to two other … Continue reading →

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