Very small update to the TTLB Ecosystem Cache plugin, just an update to trap for if the server you’re on turns off allow_url_fopen without you noticing. Before the update if the fopen function is disallowed the script will just hang. Major design flaw there, mea culpa!

Updates available from Wordpress Plugins or though the 1-click-install/update function in the plugin manager.

Oh, and I just noticed I’ve been upgraded to a Slithering Reptile. Oh the joy!

In following up their massive work in separating out the audio for individual verses, the good people who publish the ESV bible have added enclosures to the RSS feeds they provide, including the verse of the day feed. With some gracious help from Stephen, the webmaster over there, I’ve updated the Wordpress Verse of the Day Plugin. You can download the new version from here or from here for Wordpress 1.2, but if you’re using the Wordpress Plugin Manager, there is a 1-click upgrade available.

If the feed you subscribe to has enclosures added, the plugin will add a (Listen) link next to the verse reference, which you can click on to listen to the verse.

If you install this plugin & have any problems with it, please read through the comments here first, and then, if that doesn’t answer your question, please leave any question as a comment on that post rather than here. It makes it easier for me to answer questions if they’re all in one place. Thanks.

Interesting little bit of information I discovered yesterday about how IE manages memory usage. I was testing a site in IE & I needed another window open to view a different section on the site, so for some reason I clicked the icon rather than pressing ctrl-n. Later on I opened up Task Manager to kill a stalled program & I noticed that there were two instances of IEXPLORE.EXE listed. This, I thought, was odd. I’d always assumed IE spawned new windows off the same process instance, but it appeared not.

So then I go back into IE, press ctrl-n and check back on task manager and low & behold, there’s no new instance, just a memory use increase in one of the current ones. So it would seem that how you open IE changes how it manages the processes it uses. Here’s a shot of task manager with IE & Firefox both having the same four sites open, the 1^st with the IE windows opened using ctrl-n and the other with them opened by clicking on the IE icon.

Each successive IE processes has less memory usage, so it would seem that it’s either caching or sharing some of the resources, but none the less, to open the same four pages, the memory usage difference is huge - 74,236KB! So the lesson for today is, use ctrl-n. (Well, actually, the lesson is use Firefox. Even with all the windows opened on the single process, Firefox still used less memory)