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No more www.

I’ve taken a leap of faith…or I just renewed my hosting, and decided to get rid of the www. from my URL. The old URL will work indefinitely and simply redirects, so it’s nicer to have a shorter URL.
The reason I did have it at www. was the SSL certificate I was using was for [...]

Updated WordPress, and left alignments suck

Widescreen Monitors hate left-alignement
Look, I have a nice widescreen monitor. WordPress in their vain attempts at updating the formally centre-aligned editing GUI made it go on the left. I could stand the random colour changes and button replacements, but now my editing box is shoddily small!
Way to go. Not even an option to make it [...]

URL/redirect rules for WordPress and MediaWiki together (Part 1)

This is a big pain. Part 1 because I didn’t get it working tonight. I’ll try again when I’m more sane! This is of interest to me, mainly, and possibly anyone else battling against WordPress’s automatic redirects to make readable URL’s, and then getting them to cooperate with any other system files.
WordPress is being used [...]

SSL certificates

I decided to get an SSL certificate for my website when I got the domain. My host had a deal on, so I got it due to having a need to process at least some data somewhat more securely then plaintext.
With a combination of htaccess rewrite rule foolishness (of which I am trying to work [...]

Choosing my domain name: AArmstrong.org

I put some thought into my domain name - although my site name is, well, to put it bluntly; unimaginative Here’s the sordid information just in case it’s useful to anyone…

Internet aspect ratios and H.264 encoding tutorial

I’ve created a Aspect ratios and H.264 tutorial, detailing a bit about H.264 encoding and a list of aspect ratios used for scaling down 16:9 content - something I had to do recently. You can find the (not integrated with wordpress yet) aspect ratio calculator I made up on this page.

Some pages at last!

I’ve updates my site, some pages on my current work is up.

Asides

Testing “asides” - a version using Miniposts.

Starting a journal site from scratch

An excerpt? whats this then? Ahh, for viewing in lists. How fast I learn! My first journal post.