Category: Weblog Tools
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Painless WordPress upgrading
New versions of WordPress keep popping out of the woodwork, it seems. Two new bugfix/security updates were announced a few days ago – version 2.1.3 and version 2.0.10. If you’re running version 2.1.x, upgrade to 2.1.3. If you’re running 2.0.x,…
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WordPress 2.1.2 – Essential upgrade
If you use WordPress version 2.1.1, a dangerous security breach in that version has been discovered. The announcement came late yesterday: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was…
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Upgrading to latest WordPress
If you visit this site during the next few hours, you will encounter some odd things, both in appearance and functionality, as I upgrade the site to the latest WordPress version 2.1.1. At the same time, I’ll be upgrading the…
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DreamHost outage: Keeping the faith
If you tried to visit here during much of today, Sunday, you would have been out of luck. My hosting service, DreamHost, had a planned total power outage overnight Saturday/Sunday which resulted in every hosted website plus email being completely…
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RSS: The increasing influence of Google Reader
Earlier this month, I wrote about the increasing number of subscribers to this blog’s RSS feed with numbers exceeding 1,000 for the first time. Since that post, I’ve been reading quite a bit of commentary on the overall impact Google…