FeedIn a social networking site that is truly extensible and robust we wouldn’t feel the urge to move on. Restarting on a shiny new site or culling or pruning your “friends” on an existing site wouldn’t be necessary. But we have been misled. Social networking doesn’t have to be all or nothing. We shouldn’t feel [...]
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Ran into a problem with Exchange. I created a server-side rule to place spam messages in a folder that didn’t exist. All spam was instead going to the root folder, the folder above my inbox. Well if you use Entourage to access Exchange you will not be able to access this folder. If you go [...]
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 apply because some [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been reading about webclips but was having a problem finding a real use for them. Webclips, you know, just right click in Safari and “Open in Dashboard”? I thought RSS met my needs. I just added some dynamic content to my sidebar, which may or may not still be there when you are reading [...]
I decided to try come out of my cocoon and try all the social networking sites. Of course there are quite a few and the attempts to unify all of these sites haven’t been successful. So for your enjoyment, as I know you all are very interested in my life, I have started using these [...]
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. It had [...]