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For the last few months, I haven’t been able to use MSN Messenger with Adium. I’d log in, but it would just hang endlessly. Searching the bug reports was frustrating, and didn’t provide any insights. Today I found this obscure post which gives the solution. Apparently M$N changed the default connection settings without Adium making the change on their end to your account automatically. To resolve this, open the Preferences panel and Edit the account in question. Choose the Options tab (I didn’t even know this existed) and set Login Server to messenger.live.com, Port to 80 and turn on (check) the Connect via HTTP box. Once you turn back on your account, everything should be working fine.

I’ve just created a new Wordpress plugin to unstyle comment replies, which fixes an issues with zebra striping of comments in the newer versions (2.7.x). You can find out more about it on the plugin page.

I’ve been having trouble with a Scriptaculous sortable object that wasn’t catching the onUpdate function I’d assigned. In this case, I was using an UL for the parent with LIs inside. After digging into the code, I discovered that there are several criteria that must be for the actual items that are going to be sortable, or else the event won’t fire. These are: (more…)