When I started using Wordpress 2.5, I really liked some of the features. But I have been noticing little bits of weirdness here and there. The biggest one is that the Add/Edit Link button in the Visual Editor didn’t seem to work. I could put in whatever I wanted, but it would not create a link.

The workaround was easy enough, since you could just add the links within the HTML Editor and they worked fine, but switching editors felt like a pain. While I did not find a fix to the problem, I’ve found a workaround. Wordpress’s built in post editor is called TinyMCE. There is a Plugin that will add extra functionality to TinyMCE called TinyMCE Advanced.

I just installed this plugin and links seem to work fine. It also looks like it adds a bunch of features to the editor, but I have not had time to play with all of them yet.

So if you are having trouble with links in Wordpress 2.5, try installing the TinyMCE plugin. It seemed to work for me. Just make to clear your browser cache so you do not see the old editor.

Plugin available here

As a proud Irish-American (and Polish-American, and Slovak-American, and Croatian-American) I’d like to wish everyone a happy St Patrick’s Day.

• David Plotz over at Slate has a neat piece about the meaning of St Patrick and a bit of his history.
• John Scalzi has a big list of the A to Z’s of Irish culture on Whatever
• Here’s Wikipedia’s entry on St Patick as well as Ireland
• Here’s a link to Corned Beef from Epicurious which I will be having for dinner tonight
• And of course, How To Make Green Beer courtesy of SlashFood

slàinte!

I’ve been sick and having wireless problems this week. Both of which have sapped my resolve to stay on top of the blog. I think the wireless card is crapping out in my desktop since I placed the AP in the same room as the computer and still got a 0% signal. Who knows…

Here are the links:

The One Day Sabbatical - David at LifeClever has a great idea on taking a one day sabbatical. Just taking a day to get out of your routine and spend some time looking over the big picture. Step back from the projects and normal daily grind of your life. It seems like an interesting idea and I am going to to give it a try here in the next couple of weeks.

17 Tips for Getting Bloggers to Write About You - Cory (who runs BoingBoing.net) at Information Week has a good column about common sense steps to make your blog as link friendly as possible. Most of these things are common sense, but I have seen then too many times to count.

How an Information System Helped Nail Eliot Spitzer and a Prostitution Ring - Larry at ZDNet has a great aricle that uses the Spitzer case to show how banks and the government work to find illegal transactions and money laundering. This is a really clear description of some very complicated stuff. An interesting read.

NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows as Agency Sweeps Up Data - Siobhan Gorman at the Wall Street Journal has an article on the rebirth of Total Information Awareness, a NSA spying program that was scrapped several years ago do to privacy concerns and general outrage. It appears that it is attempting to be resurrecting int the new government surveillance bill.

Links for the week of interesting stuff I’ve come across.

The Answer To The Toughest Interview Question - Penelope Trunk over at the Brazen Careerist talks about how to handle salary questions in a job interview. This is great advice and one of the questions that always worries me. Her basic answer? Never give a number.

Ultimate Guide To Packing Light - Go Green Travel Green has rounded up 45 tips for packing light when traveling. This is something I am working on. I’ve gotten down to a travel backpack for a week in India and a week in Puerto Rico, but I still find I pack lots of extraneous stuff.

How To Get A Great Deal on a New Car - A three part series over at Gather Little By Little with some great tips on who to get the your new car for the least possible money. My car is going on 7 years old, and I will probably buy used next time, but these are good tips.

2 big idea posts from my cooking hero Mark Bittman(PBUH):

• 101 Simple Appetizers in 20 Minutes or Less
• Summer Express:101 Simple Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but have always been destracted. There is so much good information ou there that it is impossible to find all the good stuff. Every Saturday or Sunday I will try to share the best stuff I have seen the previous week. So without further ado, here are the weekly links for week ending 2/16/2007:

Unasked for Advice to New Writers About Money - John Scalzi over at Whatever stirred up the hornet’s nest with this post. Regardless, it really contains some good advice for anyone (not just writers) for dealing with money. Check out the followup posts here and here.

What People Eat Around the World - Photos and food costs for a week of food from around the world. It’s great (and in the case of Darfur, incredibly depressing) to see it laid out like this.

Lori Nix’s Art - Lori Nix build beautiful surreal models and then photographs them. They are really fantastic.

1975: And The Changes To Come - What the future of 1975 holds! I love these. People of the 60s looking ahead to the wild world of the mid 70s. I’m pretty sure all our predictions will look as ridiculous to future generations.