Category: Weblogs

  • 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…

  • Creative Commons version 3 launched

    Creative Commons, the non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share, has launched version 3.0 of their copyright licenses. This updated version introduces a number of changes including spinning…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • A year of great conversations

    Today marks the first anniversary of this blog when I switched to WordPress after being with TypePad since 2004. Over 660 posts with more than 2,670 comments and trackbacks during the past twelve months. Phew! That’s a lot of chat and…