I am happy to announce the release of my fourth collapsing X plugin for WordPress. This one is Collapsing Links, which was requested by several users of my other plugins. With the development of this plugin, I finally added the ability to have multiple instances of the widget. This took some careful study of some of the default wordpress plugins, and forced me to completely re-design how the plugin options are handled. In addition to the ability to have multiple […] (Read more)

I recently find myself using handy bash one-liners more all the time. I think that this is where unix/linux can really start to shine. There are so many little programs that just do one thing, and one thing well. But the ability to combine these together through pipes means you have extremely flexible and powerful tools at the ready. I have been working on a new project at work to come up with some lists for testing speech recognition. We […] (Read more)

I have run into this problem several times recently, and decided to finally write down the solution for myself rather than keep searching the internet for it. This is the problem: if you want to sort a file that is tab-delimited (and some of the filelds contain spaces), then you must explicitly tell sort to use TABS as the field separator, otherwise it will use any whitespace character. For functions such as cut and paste, this can be done like […] (Read more)

The building where I have my server which runs this blog lost power on Wednesday, June 4th, and it finally got restored this morning. Fortunately, I am pretty religious about making backups on an external hard drive, so I had a day-old backup, and was able to upload most stuff to my dreamhost account, and set up failover service with my DNS host, zoneedit, so traffic to robfelty was redirected to robfelty.com. For those of you that noticed, I had […] (Read more)

There has been many news stories about the latest release of ubuntu, so it is not a surprise that their site seems very unresponsive. I like kubuntu, so I started downloading a kubuntu torrent. If you have trouble with the main site, I am making the torrent available on mine as well. For KDE3 kubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent For KDE4 kubuntu-kde4-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent Have fun trying them out! (Read more)