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The fishing hole in Homer

It’s a lagoon on the spit in Homer, where little salmon are released to go out and get big, then return to get caught. A couple of years ago, while hopping around on some rocks at the mouth of the lagoon I fell and broke my clavicle.

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Calla lilies

Found these in Golden Gate Park on a trip to San Francisco. We met up with my parents and toured the city, walking way too much because the streetcars were too crowded.

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Fritillaries on milkweed

I found these butterflies while hiking at Little Bennett Regional Park. A tick bit me on the same trip and I ended up having to get treated for Lyme disease.

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Filez 0.9

Like Photopress, Filez isn’t all that useful now that the built-in uploader works so well. If you’ve been using Filez tags though, you’ve needed to keep Filez active so your old links would continue working. This version of Filez adds a migration tool to pull files into the Media Library, replacing all tags with links to the migrated files.

The migration tool is included as a separate plugin – to use it you’ll need to activate it, then go to Tools:Filez Migrate and click the button. Once it’s done you should be able to deactivate and delete both Filez and Filez Migrate.

Note that if you’re using W3 Total Cache with a CDN you’ll likely need to re-export your Media Library after using the migration tool – some of my files appeared to make it but not all of them.

Get Filez 0.9: filez.0.9.zip

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S3 doesn’t like plus in filenames

Exporting my media library files to S3 with W3 Total Cache has gone mostly smoothly, with one exception – S3 replaces plus signs in filenames with the urlencoded equivalent, breaking links on the blog that still expect the plus sign in the filename.

I know what you’re thinking – “Who puts a plus in a filename??” Well, over on the family blog anything is possible! I was surprised that WP’s sanitize_file_name even allows plus signs, but it does have a convenient filter to add to the list of characters to sanitize – sanitize_file_name_chars. So, I wrote a quick plugin to add a plus sign to the list: sanitizeplus.0.1.zip