Archive for June, 2009

Twitter usage FAIL

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Last night, my wife had one of the most hilarious conversations on twitter I have ever seen. A friend of hers had signed up for a twitter account earlier in the day and just followed her.  He also chose to turn on the option to receive tweets as text messages.
I have included the timeline unedited [...]

Website finally fixed!

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Well,I finally bit the bullet and did a complete from the ground rebuild of the site.  This involved exporting the database, wiping all the databases (I’ve acquired several after all the incarnations of this site) wiping all the files after a backup and then reinstalling and importing the database into a fresh database install.  All [...]

Wordpress 2.8 Upgrade problems

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Just a quick note. Today I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.8 . As usual I used the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin, but after the upgrade was finished I started getting weird gzinflate / guncompress errors.
The site worked fine but I would see the errors when I tried to upgrade a plugin. Searching the [...]

The Web’s Riskiest Search Terms

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

MacAfee has published a interesting look into the most dangerous search terms on the web. Most people know that searching for porn or cracked programs will inevitably lead you to sites that will try to steal your information via phishing or some sort of malware. The interesting thing about this report is that those [...]