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WordPress 3.0.1

Posted on July 31, 2010 by ken

tbbs-land now runs the latest, not-so-greatest WordPress. Version 3.0.1. The 3.X WordPress as been a disappointment to me. The automatic upgrade of plugins just fails to work,  a little spinner shows up, along with a message saying that this upgrade … Continue reading →

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Since When?

Posted on July 3, 2010 by ken

I typically use ScribeFire to update this old blog. At some point, I know not when1 ScribeFire no longer accepts tags on new posts. I can supply categories, Technorati links and the like via SF, but not a tbbs-local tag. … Continue reading →

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When an Upgrade alone does not Suffice

Posted on July 3, 2010 by ken

Well, then, you change themes, put up a new header, delete plugins that you’ve forgotten what-the-heck they do, rearrange widgets, and just have a blog gardening afternoon. The theme is the (now) default WordPress Theme, twentyten. Header graphics credit, as … Continue reading →

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Obligatory Post-Upgrade Test Post

Posted on July 2, 2010 by ken

Well, we’re running WordPress 3.0 here in tbbs-land. The upgrade itself was routine. I deleted the recalcitrant SimpleTags plugin post-upgrade. It is allegedly WP 3.0 compatible; the automatic upgrade ran and ran and ran, with no discernible progress, nor any … Continue reading →

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Back on the Air

Posted on January 15, 2010 by ken

The tbbs web provider, the excellent and highly recommended Delaware-based hosting.com, performed some database maintenance in the wee small dark hours earlier today. In spite of my receiving 5+ emails from them about the scheduled maintenance, I neglected to read … Continue reading →

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I Have Nothing to Say, Therefore I Upgrade

Posted on January 5, 2010 by ken

Happy New Year, y’all. Today was my first day back at $DAYJOB, and I’d frankly be hard pressed to say that we haven’t been stuck with a used year. This could be the year that I define a new $DAYJOB … Continue reading →

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I’ve inherited my Mom’s intolerance of clocks that aren’t right. I just now noticed that the timestamp on my last three posts is wrong; it’s the EDT, not EST, time. So, I made a little adjustment to the time-stamping, after … Continue reading →

Posted on December 19, 2009 by ken | Leave a comment

Snowbound and Upgraded

Posted on December 19, 2009 by ken

I spent part of Snow Day today upgrading this old blog to WordPress 2.9. I’ve never been able to get the automatic WP upgrade to work; it seems to download the upgrade, it says “Done” in the dashboard status bar, … Continue reading →

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Upgrade x2, 2 Days Late

Posted on October 22, 2009 by ken

Last Tuesday, Constantine, the Fedora 12 Beta, was released. I make it a point to upgrade sooner rather than later. And, thanks to Fedora’s preupgrade, followed by 1.1G of downloads, and what seemed to be interminable disk-thrashing, the upgrade finished, … Continue reading →

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Obligatory Post-Update Post

Posted on August 12, 2009 by ken

The WordPress upgrade of the week elevates tbbs-land to 2.8.4. More security-related items were fixed: Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a … Continue reading →

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