I really love the Opera browser, and would hate to give it up. But stuff is starting to not work – Airset’s CSS doesn’t render properly, and hides vast quantities of information. Fastmail has redesigned some of its pages, and…
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It was time to update the place a little. My webhost, DreamHost, provides a spiffy install/upgrade utility for WordPress, but it’s no good if you installed WordPress yourself back in the Dark Ages. I had been upgrading manually, but was…
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I use WordPress to manage several non-blog sites, and I tend to make heavy use of categories in order to organize posts properly. If it’s important that every post have a category, it’s helpful to rename the default category something…
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There are a couple of things in the request queue: Derrick Parkhurst of Iowa State University is looking to publicize his IPRIZE initiative “to create better tools for disabled users to interact with computers. In particular eye movements have been…
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I read somewhere that an unprotected Windows machine on the internet takes about 20 minutes to get infected. Last week my hard drive died. I got a new hard drive and ran IBM’s Rescue and Recovery on it, which basically…
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I am feeling like the email Meisterin! One of my domains has a lot of email aliases. Naturally, they attract a lot of spam. I was kind of lackadaisical about it because my email provider has such terrific spam filtering…
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