Tag: Blogging

Well, it seems that you really do get what you pay for, be it hard drives or domain hosting. Netfirms (which is generally decent over all) had it’s database crater this morning and it seemed to have taken out a number of posts (back to Wednesday). Thankfully, I was able to get them back from…

This morning, checking my email, I found that there were a number of spams from an IP that was previously blacklisted got through. Somehow, spammers have figured a way to get themselves whitelisted. While looking through all the logs, I noticed that my Akismet wasn’t up to date, so I’ve fixed that and hopefully I’ve…

This is a bit of tooting the old horn, but it’s my blog, so I can. I just finished cooking up YAPB (yet another best practice) document for instructors in the faculty. The thing that I noticed while putting this one together is that everyone is saying more or less the same thing, and the…

I’ve been curious about this for a while, so I decided to let my spam build and the two systems to indeed have differing abilities. So it does make sense to have them both running on the same blog. I have also found that it’s important to have different file names when uploading to WP…

I know everyone running WP already gets these updates, but in case you have got a different dashboard running – check it out – the update is really quick this time.