Warning: What follows is even more trivial, banal, geeky and self-involved than my usual fare. Hard to imagine, I know. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Pronounce the dot.
Version 2.7.1 of WordPress, the software that powers this blog, was released a couple days ago. I’d been looking forward to this release, even though…
I upgraded this blog (and a few others) to WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” today; it’s a great package, but the built-in upgrade installation feature is simply…
I haven’t posted for a few days because of weird technical problems. I wasn’t able to login from home over the weekend, so I figured…
After a week of delays and two whole days wasted on tech support calls, I was finally online. I was ready to write a damning invective criticizing Apple and an encomium praising the Computer Shoppe. I pointed my browser to my blog, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a notice:
Your account has been suspended. Contact billing/support.
What? How could this be? Did we forget to pay the bill? I called my webhost immediately and learned that our account had been suspended because of a “massive amount” of activity on b.rox.com.
It appears that b.rox was under attack by spambots.
Without getting excessively technical, I’ll try to explain this in terms my grandma Mildred (may she rest in peace) could have understood, insofar as I even understand it myself.
The table in my database which stores comments on this weblog has become corrupt twice over the last week; I’ve repaired it (again) so here’s…
I’ve taken over webmaster duties for the Mid-City Neighborhood Organization. I’ve been a little skeptical of this organization in the past, but I decided that…
This information is about seven years old. I put it here just to experiment with the new WordPress “pages” feature. I hope to update it…
Today I discovered that WordPress version 1.5 had been released upon the world, and I upgraded the b.rox blog with nary a glitch. (Well, maybe…