All activity on this site this week (apart from changing the theme) was done behind the scenes. Finally, neverendingbooks is upgraded to WordPress 2.0. It is a straightforward well-explained procedure but somehow I decided to try this out in between a WorkShop and a Ph.D. defense. As a consequence I had to reclone twice… Some of the Plugins‘ functionality didn’t survive the upgrade. In particular, the anti-spam plugin BotCheck doesn’t work any longer (one could fill out any code and still get a reply posted) as I found out sunday-morning when I was greeted with about 20 spam-replies… Fortunately, WP 2.0 comes bundled with its own anti-spam plugin Akismet but one needs a Wordpress.com API key which meens signing up to a WordPress-account (free). When Akismet is activated, it really bans all spam (it even shows how many spam-messages it found, 30 over two days…), the only problem being that it seems to de-activate itself at random… The new theme is called Kiwi which is a lot more compact than the default neverending(sic) page. But there is a (heavy some will say) price to pay : only summaries of posts are on the front-page and the font is (too some will say) small. Still, Kiwi has some nice extra features : the Featured Post Plugin which allows to re-cycle changing selected old posts to the right of the banner. Another changing part is the Elsewhere list (second row to the right) where one can display any feed. At the moment (but I may change this as the del.icio.us site seems to be having some problems) all del.icio.us links tagged noncommutative are shown (if the site is up…). It appears that apart from Graham Leuschke nobody has a del.icio.us account or doesn’t use the noncommutative tag. So, if you want to change this site a bit every day, you know what to do. Speaking of tags, several new categories were created so that posts now get multiples tags, describing better their (intended) content. Something I learned by tagging papers at citeUlike. Btw. you are still invited to join the NoncommutativeGeometry Group over there… Clearly, re-tagging every individual post was a painstaking experience. A WordPress 2.0 feature I like is the ability to write pages (as opposed to Posts) which are kept alive in the sidebar and therefore resemble ’stickies’ (in WP parlace ‘they live outside of the usual timeline’). At the moment there is just one test-page NAGworldMAP on which you can see that geocoding was added to this site via the Geo Plugin (allowing to add geographic data to posts) and the instant google world map Plugin plotting these data on a Google Map. At the moment you can see the distance I have to cycle to get to the university, but I have plans to do something more substantial with this feature soon, so please familiarize yourself with dragging and zooming the map (for US-citizens, European countries often do not put geographic data in the public domain, so there is a limit to the zoom-factor and I use the ’satellite’-view rather than any of the other two).
geometry, google, noncommutative, wordpress
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Written on Tue, 24 January 2006 at 8:04 pm
Tags: geometry, google, noncommutative, wordpress
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