So you want to move from Blogger to a WordPress blog February 29, 2008
Posted by Dale in : How To, Wisefaq, WordPress , CommentsThere’s plenty of advice out there on how to automatically move from Blogger to your own site.
The general steps you need to take are:
- Setup your own site with a hosting provider.
- Backup your blog site.
- Import blog posts, the WordPress blog has an import function which works well.
- Setup Blogger to redirect.
This was the most difficult thing to find out about. You want to setup your blogger blog to redirect automatically. - Done!
These two sites are the best references I found:
How to redirect Blogger Beta to Wordpress.com - October 2007
Moving from Blogger to WordPress: Best Practices - May 2006
Some random WORK-related YouTube videos. February 29, 2008
Posted by Dale in : Customer Relations, Humour, YouTube , CommentsWhenever I feel like cursing our sales people, I have a look at this video.
Inconsiderate office people, the pain train is coming.
"What do I want a sock for", said an English co-worker. All is revealed by Barry Sheene.
How to use VLOOKUP on Microsoft Excel February 26, 2008
Posted by Dale in : Excel, How To , CommentsVLookup allows you to check to see if cell A exists in a range of cells. This might be useful if you want to compare two lists of names, or DVD’s for example.
Just like the example pictured here:
(click on the picture to see all of it)
The formula used above is: =VLOOKUP(A6,DVDsIown!A:A,1,FALSE)
It’s simple once you get the hang of it. You can download the Excel spreadsheet I used above, here.
References:
Microsoft Excel Online Help: VLookup reference
Tech on the net: Excel VLookup Function
Things from the City Weekly February 26, 2008
Posted by Dale in : In The News , CommentsThe City Weekly is a free magazine which seems mainly supported by real estate & classified ads.
Things I learnt:
- ASIS are looking for Intelligence Officers.
Hotel guests, get ready for a visit - Kristen Schaal, American Comedienne, auditioned for the role of Sharon, a handful of times.
might be worth a listen - Rebecca Post runs the vintage clothing website DorothyandEvelyn.com
this photo is from her site.
- Who is this Petey Green character?
an ex-con who turned his life around. - Andromeda Hutchins is an architect for Plus Architecture
inspiration: My experiences, interaction with light, doctor’s waiting rooms, temperature, colour and definitely texture! - Factories in Brunswick East are now being redeveloped into apartments.
residents will shortly afterwards complain of other factories making too much noise.
nPing - Diagnosing Lotus Notes network problems February 25, 2008
Posted by Dale in : Freeware, Networking, Travel, Utilities, eMail , CommentsLotus Notes client didn’t work at the Frensham Pond Hotel, when I stayed there.
Long story short
- Ports 80/443 worked, so I was able to “surf” the web.
- Port 1352 blocked
How did I know?
- I used nPing.exe, and this is what a failure looks like
- A successful nPing looks like this:
(and your Lotus Notes client should work)
The fix?
- None, unfortunately. The Hotel’s ISP blocked everything except ports 80 & 443.
nPing is part of the NotesConnect toolset and can be found via this weblink:
Testing TCP/IP connections with NotesCONNECT
Windows Server 2008 SP1? - WTF??? February 24, 2008
Posted by Dale in : Vista, W2K8 , Comments
Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing, and it’s already at SP1!
WTF!?!
Yeah. At first glance you may think it strange that a first version of a product would already be at SP1 level. So I thought I would throw out a couple of reasons why Windows Server 2008 is at SP1 already. NOTE: Only ONE of the following reasons is correct:
A. We call it Service Pack 1 because we want to have something to say to the customer who is always “waiting for SP1″. “Here you go!”
B. We call it Service Pack 1 because it sounds like it’s of a higher quality.
C. We call it Service Pack 1 because it IS of a higher quality.
The correct answer is C. Windows Server 2008 is indeed of a higher quality,
Microsoft (Kevin Remde) claims C. To my mind, it’s marketing BS. Listening to my cynical heart, the REAL answer is A.
I’m sure the market will decide whether to wait until SP2 before adopting. I’d be tempted to adopt it now for WDS Multicasting.
And it works under Vista! February 22, 2008
Posted by Dale in : Application Testing, Vista , CommentsMicrosoft really have done a good job with application compatibility:
That’s right folks, it’s an application written in 1992. 15 years ago. And it still works.
And here’s the irony, I downloaded SLMR21a.zip from Simtel, and the Simtel Downloader was twice the size of the SLMR21a.zip file.
“Ohne mich!” (Without Me) - Some resignation etiquette February 20, 2008
Posted by Dale in : Business Etiquette , CommentsSubmitted my resignation yesterday, so now I’m at T minus 4 weeks and counting.
Having only having resigned from one other job in 15 years, I needed to brush up on the etiquette.
These two sites were useful:
“What’s with all those spam ping-bots?”, says Raymond February 19, 2008
Posted by Dale in : SEO, Web links , CommentsLast December, some people started to get annoyed by the pingback-bots, and others were confused by them. What’s the deal with those pingback-bots?
It’s all about fooling the search engines in order to make money, taking advantage of friendly policies at domain registrars to make it less costly an undertaking.
Step one: Register a bunch of domains with a domain registrar that includes a money-back guarantee.
Step two: Set up fake blogs on each of those sites, with different keywords.
Step three: Use a script to search the blogosphere for articles that contain keywords that match your site. (There appears to be a single script that 90% of the spam blogs use, since they all look exactly the same, and have the same bugs!)
… (continues here)
writes Raymond. Wouldn’t have thought there would have been enough of a dollar in it. I guess if you can automate the process, you might get economies of scale. Is there THAT much money in Google’s AdWords advertising?
It’s a pity Google doesn’t seem to take in the original source, as part of PageRank ranking.
Microsoft’s Defense in Depth series. February 17, 2008
Posted by Dale in : Podcast, Security , CommentsThis series is well worth your time to sit down and listen to, the subjects covered:
(Part 1 of 8): Why Does Security Matter?
(Part 2 of 8): All Bark and No Bite
(Part 3 of 8): Gates, Guards, and Guns
(Part 4 of 8): Living on the Edge
(Part 5 of 8): Keeping Your House in Order
(Part 6 of 8): Save the Box, Save the Network
(Part 7 of 8): If You Build It (Securely), They Won’t Come
(Part 8 of 8): If a Terabyte Falls in the Middle of the (Active Directory) Forest
presented by Kai Axford, who’s latest role in Microsoft is as a Senior Security Strategist with Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group.
His blog post has more details about these webcasts.