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The A-listers. The are the people who just talk about themselves. The A-Listers on the Internet. The A-listers mostly talk to the just the A-listers. They all use every new service that has come out and claim it is the next big thing. Yes, some services are good, some not so good. They seem to [...]

I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 this evening. Worked like a charm. Seems like everything is working fine. I really like the “automatic” plugin upgrades!!

Technorati Tags: WordPress,2.5,Upgrade,Blogging

OK so I lied. Everything wasn’t working after I set up my WordPress blog on IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003. Two things were broke: SMTP (email from the blog) and URL Rewrites/Permalinks.
SMTP worked through IIS just fine, I could telnet and send email out, but from WordPress, it was getting a 501 error. From what [...]

Trying to get a Madison Blogger Meetup going. There is a Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17843681384
Hopefully next week (Thursday  Feb 21st, at Mickey’s Tavern)
Everything is subject to change at this point :)
On an unrelated note, Obama is in Madison tonight, at [...]

After I updated to WordPress 2.3.3, I was seeing some pages in my admin screens getting errors like this:
Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted
WTF? So, pages still worked though. I cleaned out everything I wasn’t using (themes, plugins, etc) in my WordPress directories, still getting it. [...]

There have been a few security related fixes for WordPress released. The are currently on 2.2.3
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/
I use HostMySite.com for my hosting and they won’t upgrade your WordPress installation for you, so you need to do it yourself. Pretty simple, just follow the directions here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
I backed up my WordPress instance, then disabled my plugins, then uploaded [...]

Well, end of the year, here are some stats on my blog..
around 63,000 page loads, and 46,000 uniques up from 35,000 page loads and 22,000 uniques in 2006, almost doubled!
posts per month:
# December 2007 (17)# November 2007 (16)# October 2007 (13)# September 2007 (21)# August 2007 (24)# July 2007 (31)# June 2007 (40)# May 2007 [...]

Wow, just logged into my blog admin, and noticed I have 600 posts, with 600 comments, weird!

Technorati tags: Blogging, Wordpress

After traveling this week, it has become really more apparent that technology plays a major role in the whole traveling process, as well as family interaction. Now I know there are the old schooler’s out there that will be like, phhh, you don’t need technology to do anything. I am not saying that, I am [...]

Tonight I walked on down the block to the Portland Blogger Dinner at Jive Software. Pretty cool. Jive is nice, Wii, 360, beer on tap in the break room… the work on a product called ClearSpace - collaboration software written in Java.
It was a good get together, met some cool people. I added some [...]