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I’ve been without Flash support in Liferea for my x86_64 Fedora for quite a while. Well, Adobe has a 64-bit alpha version of their sucktastic Flash Player available now, and it seems to work perfectly with both Firefox and Liferea – so now I can watch BB’s lame unicorn videos right in my favorite feed reader. I can’t decide whether this is good or bad.
Something to do with leftover cranberry sauce…
Ingredients:
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Smash up the bananas in a bowl first, leaving chunks if you like. Mix in everything but the cranberry sauce, adjusting the amount of nut flour to get a batter that’s a little thicker than usual – the cranberry sauce will thin the batter. Fold in the cranberry sauce carefully if you don’t want pink muffins. Spoon into muffin pans and bake about 35 minutes for smallish muffins, watching carefully for brownness – the nut flour burns easily.
One of my family blog authors just noticed that the author archive pages weren’t showing all of an author’s posts. It turns out that the sample author template in the WP Codex that I’d borrowed only shows the number of posts from WordPress’ Settings – in our case 5 posts – and the sample doesn’t include navigation links. Caveat emptor on the Codex examples of course, but even once I noticed the problem it wasn’t all that apparent how to fix it. I wanted to display more (actually all) of an author’s posts because it’d be pretty tedious to use nav links to go through hundreds of posts. After some Codex browsing I figured out that re-doing the query just before the Loop works:
<?php query_posts('author=' . $curauth->ID . '&showposts=-1'); ?>
This is probably running two post queries and highly inefficient, but it does work – I added a little counter to the Loop to double-check.
Summary: On the final leg of our trip, Mandi, her mom Bette, Bette’s mom Nancy, Nancy’s friend Cassie, and I made our way from Hahn airport to Breidel on the Mosel River to Beilstein, Burg Eltz, and a rendezvous with our friends in Aachen. Mandi and I headed back home via Frankfurt airport while the others stayed a couple more days.
25 October
Our Ryanair flight back to Germany didn’t suck too much – they did try to sell us lottery tickets and booze but they were roughly on time and didn’t hit any birds. A drunken guy got up while we were taxiing though, so someone was buying the booze.
Mandi went looking for our rental car while I sat on the luggage. We ended up with another sweet minivan, this time a VW Touran. Is that the same minivan as the Routan that Brooke Shields is trying to sell Americans? It was comfortable enough, black, and had a navigation thing. Unfortunately, the navigation thing only seemed to know German, so we got a bit lost before we managed to decode enough German to get headed towards Breidel. I never did figure out how to change the language, so by the time we got to Frankfurt we knew a smattering of navigation-related German words.
20 October
In retrospect, we probably should have just paid more to fly directly from Frankfurt to Helsinki, but flying out of Hahn did get us to Trier, Beilstein, and Burg Eltz so I guess that compensated for the hassle.
Thanks to the navigation thing in the rental minivan we made it to Hahn airport for our Ryanair flight to Tampere, Finland easily enough. The airport is pretty funny because it’s in the middle of the German countryside. We speculated that Ryanair has such good on-time and lost-baggage stats because they use tiny airports where they’ve got a lot of control. We paid extra for priority seating so we got to sit together even though the plane was completely full.
The baggage claim area in Tampere was pretty crazy – the conveyor just spewed bags out into where people were standing – but we managed to collect them all and get on the bus to town. We should have caught a cab or bus to our hotel, but we leaned into the wind and rain and marched from the train station to Omenahotelli.
