lugins are a fundamental and fairly obvious software-engineering idea (going way back), which though formerly ‘just’ a utilitarian tool, have become a popular-computing & Internet sensation. They’re all the rage now. A plugin is a relatively small & limited-scope piece of special-purpose software that can be optionally added to another more general-purpose & full-featured software …
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WordPress, website platform almost a quarter of the Web runs on it
ordPress is a web program, software that runs a blog or website. Originally a nice, simple little blog-script, it encountered success early, and was soon no longer simple, or little. Still, it retains a degree of restrain in it’s design & implementation that establish & maintain a watershed of sorts between it & other programs. …
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WordPress plugin repository
pluginn repositor blog & website software hosts on their own site, a large collection of 3rd-party titles for the program. As of late 2010, there are over 15,000. They call the page for this repository, WordPress Extend-Plugins. WordPress does some vetting of these plugins; provides a standardized format for organizing information about plugins, and creates …
Short Syntax Highlighter, WordPress plugin a WordPress plugin
hort Syntax Highlighter is a for the website software. It is intended for nicely-displaying examples of computer-code, within your posts & pages. There are more than a few such ‘highlighters’ around (they typically color the different ‘syntax’ elements differently, thus ‘highlighting’ them). Why do we see ‘yet another one’? How might this one be of …
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Benchmark Rock, Elwha River Trail, Olympic Nat’l Park an early treat on Elwha River Trail
enchmark Rock is an informal spot about 3/4 mile up the from its beginning at the . The author , in his book , refers to the location as Benchmark Rock, in his Elwha Trail section (pg 40). (Note that historically & culturally, the name of this trail is sometimes seen as Elwha Trail, and …
Elwha River Road – not to the Elwha always broken; can't fix
he is sometimes seen referred to as the Elwha River Road. Locals are not affected … even though they also practice & perpetuate the ambiguous usage. The road that visitors to the and the facilities & recreation along the will be looking for is the Olympic Hot Springs Road. Not the Elwha River Road.
Olympic Hot Springs Road, Elwha River, Olympic Nat’l Park the Elwha River in Olympic National Park
lympic Hot Springs Road leaves at its bridge over the and goes up the valley (south), soon entering the . The junction is about 10 minutes west of . This is the road that leads to popular recreational areas on & around the river, to the , and provides access to various river-valley campgrounds and …
Goblins Gate, Elwha River, Olympic Nat’l Park
[G]oblins Gate is a dramatic entrance to the of the in . It’s at the lower end of and the area. The river is suddenly pinched into a narrow canyon between vertical rock walls (like a gate). It is an easy day-hike to Goblins Gate, via . A broad, low ridge of resistant rock, a …
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Patent 2,673,793 – Model Engine Fuel
by John W. Brodhacker application Feb. 3 1950 This invention relates to fuels for internal combustion engine of the high speed type such as model engines for midget racing cars, model airplanes, etc., and more particularly it relates to ignition promoters added to such fuels in order to improve the ignition performance.
Lake Aldwell, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, NW USA everyone drives right past; worth the stop
Update: ake Aldwell is now gone, with the removal of its dam, but other features remain as described here. The former lake-bed is growing back in a jungle of saplings & brush. One visitor in 10,000 might stop for the easy-quick check. Lake Aldwell is the impoundment of the Elwha River above the lower …