Equipment Superior To User
DaleI had to change an email account password in CPanel, and I could not get my email client to connect to the mail server. In the end, I proved that…
Make it go faster – Enabling GZip Compression
Things were getting slow around here, as you can see with the results from ismyblogworking.com. Now WordPress, in versions before WordPress 2.5, had a GZip compression option. It was removed…
Checking that the weblinks are working.
I use a small program called Xenu’s Link Sleuth. Which looks at all blog posts, grabs the links I’ve mentioned, and then check that they still exist. Or to put…
Lists O’ IT Goodness
Is something I refer to every other day. The list has articles which has lists of things like Print Screen utilities, File Recovery tools, and the item I referred to,…
“If you can fly a Sopwith Camel, you can fly anything”
… programmer’s equivalent. 6502 assembler. Not that I could easily do that these days. But it’s been a good thing to know, as I can debug most languages. Except Erlang. …
Wisefaq Word Cloud
Just tapped my blog url into Wordle, and it generated this Word Cloud. Interesting.
How do I measure thee? … or site stats for dummies
This has proven difficult, as I only have two web statistics packages available to me. Webalizer and AWStats. I first had a look at Webalizer, and I was impressed with…
So you want to move from Blogger to a WordPress blog
There'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…
“Give me a light that I may go forth into the unknown.”
As we come up to the end of the year thought I'd start off with a favorite quotation: I said to the man at the gate of the year, "Give…