Escaping Apostrophes in Sed
I’ve had a need to escape a literal apostrophe in an email and couldn’t figure out how to do it. Until I found this post on the Sed Yahoo Group: sed has supported apostrophe substitution for many years. Use the \xHH notation to indicate any hex character. Since the apostrophe is 0×27, you can do [...]
Post Reporting II
As promised in my first post reporting entry, this is a follow up article. I’m going to describe how to easily edit your theme template to insert PHP code rather than using shortcodes, well, mostly. I’m also going to show how to achieve the same effect for single posts by using a sidebar widget. If [...]
Post Reporting I
A couple of days ago I was chatting to Darren over at My Life in Leeds (running WordPress) and he asked if I knew a way that a visitor to his site could report changes to the factual content of articles. Darren publishes reviews of Leeds’ businesses and attractions and should one business change its [...]
Bexx On Her Way
You may be aware that my daughter, Rebecca, is going on a 6 month trip to Nakuru, in Kenya, where she’s going to be working in a school until July. Well, she set off this very morning. I don’t think either of us believed the day would actually come but through a combination of support, [...]
Photo Galleries and Images
One of my aims this year is to simplify photo storage and display on both this and other sites under my control. I am completely hopeless when it comes to the cataloguing of anything and I have a huge directory on my HDD full of photo sub-directories. It all needs sorting out! So first things [...]
