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There are many ways in which you can connect now-a-days. But one way, is via blog networks. Basically I registered this blog with Facebook, and it allows you with a click of the button to add yourself a fan (reader) of this blog. NetworkedBlogs Blog: Living in the Whine Country Topics: society, news, entertainment [...]
Actually I should of expected it. I got a note mentioning they where going to transition my Feedburner account over to Google, and I should of expected they wouldn’t actually be smart and use redirects. Plus the Feedburner WordPress plugin must be hard coded for the Feedburner URL (instead of feedburner.google.com) because with it activated [...]
For the past three (or is four days?) this sites SQL server was down. And it wasn’t just, “damn I need to give that a kick and a reboot” down. It wasn’t there. I found a post where they noted that they where having problems Thursday (started Wed) so I just put in a ticket, [...]
Well today’s supposed to be a lucky day. The Chinese thought the day lucky enough to have the Olympics start this morning at 8:08 on 8-8-8, which means by now they are recovering (don’t forget the time difference) from the opening ceremony now. If you want to catch up on what’s going on you can [...]
I don’t know. I still haven’t been getting an extreme amount of traffic. But in an attempt to single out things I put it in Maintenance mode for a while and check the usage (it didn’t change drastically) and then I decided to go forward with a new theme. I’m still tweaking things, so let [...]
For those visiting the site and getting 503′s, I’m sorry. I seriously don’t know what is up. Checking logs I’m not getting a lot fo traffic, Dreamhost Status isn’t showing anything, but the load on the server has surged like crazy. It went from running a nice 128 MB to currently over 400MB quickly (at [...]
Well since it seemed there was a dead period and the site was acting wacky I figured I’d give you all an update. Went and tried a site-wide chat “add-on” called firefly but though it ran pretty good, I got some minor complaints about speed hits and minor errors. So its temp removed sitewide and [...]
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Mind these shell commands are more for those who have shell access to their domains and are having to deal with upgrading many WordPress installs or are just wanting to be lazy. If you look at it, you’ll see its very simplistic, and I didn’t do “garbage collection.” In otherwords I left the install files [...]
WordPress version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, [...]
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WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs. If you are [...]
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