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From Byte Slinger:

Simple Machine Forum tip - recover from screwing up a theme

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:09:34 GMT | Simple Machines Forum

If you manage Simple Machines Forums and do any amount of customization, you are bound to mess up a theme to the point that you can't access any pages. Don't panic, you don't have to hack the database to change the theme values to their defaults. You simply need to use a different theme.

Here is how. Simply add "?theme=1" to your URl:

yoursite.com/index.php?theme=1

Then you can edit the values of the theme you were working on. This only works if you are not altering the default theme. For this reason, if you are going to make changes to the default theme, make a copy and change that version.

Office Slang

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:30:00 GMT | Humor

One of the most entertaining aspects of geek culture is the language it produces. Over the years phrases created to describe the world from the technical trenches migrate across the web. Sometimes they enter the mainstream. Sometimes they remain active in geek lingo long after the technology that inspired them is no longer used. Here are some of my favorites collected from the web over the years.

Array properties in Spring Framework

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:15:09 GMT | Spring

Things are so easy and intuitive with Spring that it can be frustrating when you can't figure out how to do something. I recently had a senior moment when I needed to set a String array property. I looked in several books and did a few online searches and could not find an example. I knew it was going to be easy, I just couldn't believe how easy.

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From Adventures with Buck:

The Paw Paw Tunnel

Tue, 29 May 2007 01:25:00 GMT

We decided to go for a hike on Memorial Day afternoon. It had been over ten years since we had been to Paw Paw so we decided to go to the Paw Paw Tunnel.

East of Hancock

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:50:33 GMT

I finally had a day that I felt like getting out. I wanted to go someplace that we have not been before. While I've stopped at the Park and Dine in Hancock before, I've never explored the town. I thought it would be fun to start at the eastern part of town and work our way west.

Conococheague Aqueduct

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:29:00 GMT

This was my first trip to the river after my foot surgery. My wife and I wanted to get out of the house as the weather finally improved. We decided to go to Williamsport and see how high the water had risen after the week's storms.

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From Creeping Lunacy:

Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Washington Post

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:37:40 GMT | Economics

If you have a big home equity loan, an even bigger mortgage, over the limit credit cards, a car that will last a year with a loan that will last three, and poor prospects for future employment, apparently, the thing to do is to start lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills. When this is the prevailing wisdom, the end is nigh as the thought contains no wisdom and indicates a widespread acceptance of irresponsibility. This bastardization of the work of John Maynard Keynes has taken root in news rooms, editorial pages, legislatures, and cable news stations from sea to shining sea and across the fruited plain. It is accepted as if it came down from on high carved into stone tablets. One side decreeing the dangers of anthropogenic global warming and the other extolling Keynesian economics and specifying the liberal programs to spend money on to stimulate the economy. All of this presented as if it were based on science as sound as Newton?s Laws of Motion. The worst part is reading hack columnists like Steven Pearlstein denigrate prudence as economic illiteracy.

Aw crap; I am an undecided voter

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:48:00 GMT | Politics

Just a few hours to go and I still haven?t made up my mind I should not be surprised to find myself in this position. In the past I could rely on one party or the other to field a candidate that was immediately recognizable as a disaster in the making. As our national pathologies have deepened, the ability of the parties to field candidates that can even feign competence has disappeared. Still, I don?t know if it will be worse living in a country led by studied socialist Barack Obama or accidental socialist John McCain.

Will Sarah Palin jump the shark before or after the presidential election?

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:33:42 GMT | Politics

The job of preparing Sarah Palin to face the media was done poorly. The campaign held off the press for several weeks. This gave the Governor a chance to cram for her debut but it also let the press set an ambush. I don?t know what was done in the period between Sarah Palin?s introduction to the country at the Republican convention and her first interview but it was not effective. Mrs. Palin didn?t let her inner bulldog out. Instead, the press went on an offensive to prove she is not qualified for the office she is seeking.