Jun
26
One Million Visitors
June 26, 2007 | Comments Off
Wow, I pay so little attention to this blog at the moment, that I didn’t notice my visitor count rolling over 1 million. It must have done so at least a couple of weeks ago. Update I checked and it was May 30th at approximately 15:47 GMT and it looks like it was a visitor […]
Jun
25
Happy Birthday Sue
June 25, 2007 | Comments Off
Happy Birthday Sue!
Lots of love,
Jan, Mike, and Jamie
xoxoxox
Jun
21
WordPress 2.2.1 Released
June 21, 2007 | Comments Off
WordPress 2.2.1 is now available. Most of the changes are minor bug fixes, however there are some security fixes as well. We can’t stress enough how important it is to upgrade your sites and keep them current so that you aren’t open to attacks. […]
Jun
21
Perl geekery: building hashes
June 21, 2007 | Comments Off
Say we’re writing a program in Perl, and we need to pass a lot of data back and forth between subroutines. Using global variables is bad practice, and we often use the slightly-less-bad method of passing around a big hash variable. But it’s a pain to always use the values in the hash, so a lot of our code uses individual scalar variables, and stick them into (and pull them out of) the hash as needed. […]
Jun
20
Commercial Jingles
June 20, 2007 | Comments Off
My wife was a Communications major in college. So she often makes observations about how organizations try to get their message out to their audience. One thing she remarked on recently was the decline in the use of musical jingles, as opposed to non-musical slogans, in advertising. […]
Jun
19
WP-Cache fix for Content-Type in feeds
June 19, 2007 | Comments Off
If you run a busy WordPress site, or even if your site just has a lot of processor-intensive plugins, then you probably already run the WP-Cache plugin (plugin directory, original announcment, recent security update info). […]
Jun
13
Another new start
June 13, 2007 | Comments Off
About two weeks ago, I started a new job (which explains at least part of my blogging lull, you see). I’m working on Free IQ, which is a streaming media site for entrepreneurs. […]
Jun
11
native works both ways… or does it?
June 11, 2007 | Comments Off
So, in the young years of OS X, thousands were complaining that Office and other mac ports of Windows software didn’t look native enough. There is even a vocal group advocating native Aqua controls for Firefox on OS X.
Now, Apple just released Safari for Windows, complete with Aqua scrollbars and widgets. I’m waiting to read […]