Just finished updating WordPress to 2.5 from 2.3.3. Ran into a few problems. Normally I diff the old version of WP to the new version and just apply the generated patch to my “custom” install. Somewhere along the line I must have deleted extraneous files like license.txt because the patch failed to [...]

It’s been three years since we upgraded the hardware that hosts our various sites. I contacted my provider (Crucial Paradigm) and got some competitive offers. Stefan, my friend in Berlin that I split the server with, and I agreed on the following specs:

Athlon 64 x2 4000 (2 cores @ 2.1GHz, 512K L2 each)
4GB RAM, [...]

I recently decided that the tried and trusted [1] personal information management tool I had been using, a G5 pen and a Levenger Circa, wasn’t doing much to manage the information on my computer. In actuality I had the paper notebook, Entourage, iPhoto, folder structures, del.icio.us, etc to manage all my information. For [...]

I just finished moving the last of my content into WordPress pages. I got tired of my old theme and decided to give up on integrating WordPress into my existing site. I was spending a significant amount of time just merging in the changes from WordPress releases without clobbering all of my customizations. [...]