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I upgraded Rachel’s blog to Wordpress 2.5 this morning and she immediately began running into trouble uploading files through the new interface. I quickly searched and found this solution. I believe she saw this error because her blog is not located at the root of her domain - she’s at http://rljart.com/blog/ instead of just being at http://rljart.com/. If you’re upgrading and your WP installation isn’t at the root of your domain you might need to create an .htaccess file and follow the directions.

I think this is a bug with SWFuploader and not Wordpress, actually.

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I’ve been following more and more mp3 blogs lately and really been getting interested in having my own. There are three prominent online music services I use:

1. Pandora
2. The Hype Machine
3. Blog Remix

A combination of the three services would be perfect. I like Pandora because it discovers new music for me. I like The Hype Machine because I can find music given a band or song title. And I like Blog Remix because it is a really cool app. They all have their drawbacks too, which I won’t go into now, but will “announce” that to further investigate the world of online music, I am creating a new mp3 blog: Mechroboticon. I am interested in good music, obviously, but also the technology that helps the discovery and exchange of good music.

When setting up Mechroboticon I decided to write a super-simple Wordpress plugin to wrap the Yahoo! Media Player JS code. I created this because I’m still using the default WP template and didn’t want to have to put the player js in the footer of each template I decide to try out. Making a plugin simplifies an already super simple process.

Get the Yahoo! Media Player WP Plugin

Disclaimer: This plugin isn’t being endorsed by Yahoo!. Even though I am an employee of Yahoo!, I wrote this plugin as just some random guy. Let me know if you have any questions about the plugin.

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Wordpress 2.3 was recently released and I happened to see the announcement just a couple hours after the release. I quickly upgraded and am enjoying the new version quite a bit. Most of my enjoyment is coming from playing with my new theme. Having a theme with two widget enabled columns is just great (for pretty obvious reasons).

The big new feature with 2.3 is the official inclusion of Tags. I’m still trying to figure out how I want to tag something versus how I want to categorize it and as you can see from this post I chose the same for both.

I plan on working on my current theme a little bit more then releasing it for anyone else to use if wanted. It’s a really basic theme, but it works for me.

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