I’ve got the PHP Markdown plugin installed, which is helpful in formatting code. I haven’t used it too much yet; it may interact with my otherwise preferred formatting options.
The general reference to the syntax of markdown can be found at daringfireball.
I’ve added the following custom code that I found on Zeo’s blog. It gets added to the functions.php section of the theme being used for the blog. Which obviously will require it to be updated each time I change the appearance of the blog. But it’s simple. I found a relatively complicated plugin which didn’t work and still required manual editing of the file. If you’re aware of a functional plugin to do the same thing (preferably with a list of check boxes) I’d appreciate the pointer.
My goal here is to be able to maintain all my blog entries in one place, but allow me to write some technical entries that would otherwise bore my lay person reader (all three of them).
I also want to find a way to make a custom page to show all of the tech entries. Off to search for that.
function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home || $query->is_home ) {
$query->set('cat', '-54');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');
“Not only should Texans be able to buy Texas beer, but our beer-buying money should, whenever possible, stay in the communities where the beer is produced.” So says J.R. Labbe at the Star-Telegram.
Contact your state senator and representative and tell them to support HB 754 and SB 1062. Heck, tell them to co-sponsor it.
It should be a no-brainer. Get it done, and get on with the hard work!
Did you contact your Representative yesterday? Excellent! Today, we are contacting our state Senator…
The Texas State Legislature has once again convened (for the 81st time), and there is another attempt to pass a minor, simple, and obvious bill that will set right the current inability of small brewers to sell their product from their breweries – a right that was restored to the craft vintners of the state in 2005.
Whenever this bill arises, it is usually killed in committee, thanks to big money distributors (Eagle among them). See I Love Beer for more information on what you can do, and please contact your state senator! The more light that shines on an issue, the harder it is for a legislative committee to keep it from seeing the house floor.
Open Letter:
Representative Gallego,
The Texas State Legislature has once again convened (for the 81st time), and there is another attempt to pass a minor, simple, and obvious bill that will set right the current inability of small brewers to sell their product from their breweries – a right restored to craft vintners of the state in 2005.
Whenever this bill arises, it is usually killed in committee, thanks to big money distributors (Eagle among them). See I Love Beer for more information, and please contact your state representative! The more light that shines on an issue, the harder it is for a legislative committee to keep it from seeing the house floor.
Open Letter:
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Center Point Energy’s web site is stupid for not providing me the ability to schedule a payment. They send me the bill two weeks in advance and I can either “pay now” or try to remember to pay closer to the date, forget about it, pay late, get reported for late payments, get dinged on my credit score …
One thing they do have is this nifty histogram of my natural gas usage. I lost my water heater in June, and that was the only thing using gas. I didn’t much notice it at the time, but I was paying something for a small leak that bloomed into a massive leak one friday night in August.
My very leaky house peaks at heater usage in December and January obviously.
Gas Usage Histogram
And if you’d like to see what that costs me, here in Houston, here’s that data… Continue reading