November 2007

A lost Exit78 post , recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine; July 2011

To keep from inadvertently infringing someone else’s copyright, I generally use my own photos for this blog or images that I get from public domain sources. Of course, it also gives me an opportunity to show my images. However, there are some instances, such as when I don’t have a picture that fits the topic, where it would be great to have another safe source of images.

Skellie at Skelliwag.org has a great article on using images from Flickr that have been made available by their owners under Creative Commons licensing. His Her article is titled A Complete Guide to Finding and Using Incredible Flickr Images and includes an explanation of the Creative Commons concept.

There are a lot of fantastic images available on Flickr. In just a few minutes browsing, I found the two photos that I’ve included here. I used the advanced search feature, with “Christmas” as the search term and using the option to “Only search within Creative Commons-licensed photos.”

I’ll be including more holiday related photos in the blog during the rest of the holiday season. Like normal, I’m having a bit of a problem getting into the holiday spirit, but perhaps it’ll help if I am taking some holiday pictures. We’ll see.

Comments

December 2, 2007

Rose @ 8:53 pm

I love that photo. So very nice. We just put up our tree today. I need to take a pic and post it.

December 3, 2007

teeni @ 2:21 pm

This is great information. Now I have a whole new world of images to use as long as I honor the copyrights.

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A lost Exit78 post , recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine; July 2011

 

Every month I spend two or three evenings working on material for my Daily Chronicles of the American Civil War, which I publish in the form of a blog.

Update July 1, 2011: the current blog is Daily Observations from The Civil War, where multiple letters or diary entries are published that were written on the current date 150 years ago.

Each post is a newspaper article or diary entry from the current day, except that it is from one of the civil war years. Currently, I am publishing from November, 1863, and I’m working on the material for December 1863. The material is published in advance, dated with the date that corresponds with the article or diary entry.

Prepublication, or scheduled release, works well for material like this that has a date already associated with it. It can also work well if one has other pre-existing material that he or she desires to publish over a period of time, or for publishing material during a period when one is going to be away from the blog, such as holiday periods or vacation.

There are three diaries and one news column that will have material in December. John Beauchamp Jones is a rebel war clerk in Richmond Virginia and, of the diarists I’ve include, is the most dependable in that he has something to say almost every day. Horatio Nelson Taft, a Yankee in the Federal Patent Office, made few diary entries in 1863, but he has several for December. Gideon Welles, the Union Secretary of the Navy, had no diary entries for November, but returns in the middle of December. The Situation, a column from the New York Herald, was added in the absence of the material from Welles. I’ll continue including it at least through the end of December.

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A lost Exit78 post , recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine; July 2011

In three out of six of our blogs, we have not been receiving e-mail notifications for a couple of weeks for comments that were posted nor for comments that were being held for moderation. Two of the other blogs don’t get comments very often and the other one only gets spam comments, most of which is caught by Askimet.

My first guess was that one of the spam filters was incorrectly dumping the notifications. I changed the email address a couple of different ways to try to see if a message would be sent, but none of that worked.

After a couple of hours of frustration, I finally decided to go to the WordPress forums to see if anyone else had the same problem. I searched on the phrase comment mail and found that others had seen the same problem and that the solution was to either make sure the e-mail address the notification was sent to was named “WordPress” or delete a line of code in a php file.

I tried both.

The second one worked.

Comments

November 27, 2007

windyridge @ 8:24 pm

Yikes, I haven’t gone to 2.31 form 2.3 yet. Have you found a big difference? IOW is it worth it?

Thanks for your kind comments about my post on Random Good Stuff. I appreciate them.

Can’t type in my url, the cursor keeps jumping up to the email line!

I’ve fixed the problem — there was an coding error on one of the theme’s php pages. – Mike Goad

November 29, 2007

pete @ 3:25 pm

So that’s the bug! I just upgraded to 2.3.1 from 2.2.2 and these delivery failure messages started arriving in my inbox. Rolando at rplayground.com gave me the fix today, but this is the first I’ve seen about it in detail. Thanks for the link to the WP page.

You’re welcome! I’m just glad I was able to find a solution. It was pretty frustrating.

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A lost Exit78 post , recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine; July 2011

Late Fall Hike — Seven Hollows Trail at Petit Jean State Park — posted at Haw Creek Out ‘n About.

After my publishing success on the first day of our camping trip last week, I didn’t follow through very well. On Saturday, last week,  we went on a hike that wore us out pretty much and that evening all I did was watch a movie. The next day we took a drive and after lunch headed back home. That evening, I believe, — or maybe it was the next — I had all of the photos uploaded to the Petit Jean 2007 flikr set. Since the photos were the main hold-up in doing the travel journal for our trip out west, using flikr will certainly help for our next trip.

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