April 2011
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February 2011
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Tumblr To Wordpress
Tumblr’s users who wish to move their content over to a self-hosted Wordpress blog now have a new solution. Wordpress developer Pete Mall used the existing exporter PHP scripts written by Hao Chen and its “enhancement fork” created by Ben Ward to create a new “Tumblr 2 Wordpress” exporter: http://tumblr2wp.com/.
Read more on Aphelis.
December 2010
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Aphelis Reloaded: Part I
Photo: Skandalon, December 24th, 2010 (CC)
On December 23th, Skandalon celebrated its second year of existence (the very first post was published on December 23th, 2008).
However, as you may have noticed, nothing was published here for the past three months. To make a long story short, the last queue crash messed with the timestamp of all the posts I had stored either in Draft or in Queue....
October 2010
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“The man who works recognizes his own product in the World that has actually been...”
– Introduction to the Reading of Hegel by Alexandre Kojève, Cornell University Press, [1947]1980, p. 27 Here’s the original French version:L’homme qui travaille reconnaît dans le Monde effectivement transformé par son travail sa propre œuvre: il s’y reconnaît soi-même; il y voit sa propre...
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September 2010
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Tumblr queue and more...
I’ve got an answer from Tumblr’s support team regarding the queue feature: We experienced some issues recently around Queues and Drafts. Some Queues posted all of their posts and posted them with the timestamps of when they were queued rather than when they were actually posted. Many posts manually published from Queue/Drafts were also posted with the timestamps of when they were...
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Tumblr queue down again
Tumblr queue is broken again. It’s behaving erratically in many different ways. 1) It will not respect the chosen interval of publication (every 12 hours in my case). 2) It sometime refuses to publish a post. 3) Or on the contrary, as it happened a couple of times before, it will publish every post in queue at once. 4) Worst of all, yesterday it quite surprisingly deleted one of my queued...
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“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she...”
– Following the Equator by Mark Twain, Wildside Press LLC, [1897]2003, chap. V, p. 56 In Following the Equator, this quote is attributed to the Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. Those quote serves in part as a promotional tool for Mark Twain’s previous novel Pudd’nhead Wilson,...
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