iPhone, iPost

Posted on July 20th, 2007 in WordPress, Technology by Craig

Well, I did it. Went and got me one of them iPhones. The WordPress admin pages aren’t terribly well-suited to the device, but I think I’ve figured out how to post an entry from the phone.

It’s the best phone/iPod/PDA I’ve owned, in spite of a few annoyances. One dissappointment is the poor interaction with the Bluetooth hands-free feature in my Audi A3. The phone and car make a connection when I start the car, but the connection is unstable and usually breaks in five or ten or fifteen minutes. I filed a bug report with Apple this morning, and hope they can and will produce a software fix for it. A BMW owner said he has seen this problem, and found that by disabling the phone’s WiFi while in the car, he could get a stable Bluetooth connection. I’ll give that a try the next time I’m out and about.

Now for full disclosure. I wrote most of this post from the iPhone, but had to finish it from my laptop. I can’t copy and paste on the iPhone, which makes adding a lengthy URL to the post a difficult chore. Some of the controls on the Web interface for WordPress administration are invisible on the iPhone, too. Just the price of being an early adopter, as they say.

Update Turning off WiFi while in the car didn’t fix the Bluetooth hands-free operation bug. A search of the web for iPhone bugs leads me to believe that Bluetooth support is one of the most unreliable of features on the phone.

Futzing with the Blog

Posted on June 4th, 2007 in WordPress, Weblogs by Craig

I’m probably the last WordPress blogger to do this, but I decided to change the permanent links on this blog to use what WordPressers call “pretty permalinks.” This requires web server mod_rewrite rules, as explained by Scott Yang and Ryan Boren.

I’ve also been playing around with the stylistic theme of this site, and am leaning towards this modification of Hemingway by Ninja Monkeys and this more traditional theme called Copyblogger.

If you don’t know what any of this means, just let me know if something’s broken, if you can, unless it’s broken really bad, in which case, I’ll see it too (I hope) and fix it.