January 15, 2010 – 9:38 pm
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 any of them until I received the dreaded Database Connection Error message multiple times [...]
January 5, 2010 – 8:25 pm
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 metric, or maybe two. The first is $DAYJOB TDS1, and the second would be $DAYJOB [...]
December 19, 2009 – 2:51 pm
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 seeing this in WP settings for timezone:
Unfortunately, you have to manually update this for Daylight [...]
December 19, 2009 – 2:44 pm
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, but then nothing happens. Perhaps I’m either impatient, do not understand the process, or both.
So, [...]
October 22, 2009 – 7:21 pm
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, and /etc/redhat-release now reveals:
Fedora release 11.92 (Rawhide)
Thus far, Constantine has performed well. A few sound [...]
August 12, 2009 – 7:32 pm
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 user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the [...]
Last Monday, tbbsLand went to WordPress 2.8.2, and I sadly neglected to document that event.
Tonight, in another painless upgrade, this old blog went to WP 2.8.3. Both were security-related updates.
If they want an upgrade a day, I’ll do that, too.
Thanks, WordPress!
-k-
My blogging output is sagging a bit, partially because of the required filing of a daily status report at $DAYJOB. The requirements were to submit it via either:
Microsoft Word1
email2
Instead, I submit mine via TicklerWiki, outfitted with a snapshot plugin. I take the daily report, export it from the wiki to HTML, and forward that [...]
I’ll be able to devote my full attention to the Big Screen Kindle, still on target to arrive tomorrow. I just completed the tbbs-land upgrade to WordPress 2.8, with no major problems.
My “Related Posts” plugin wasn’t compatible, and has been dispatched to the bit bucket. Other than that, the old blog looks like [...]
I liked the header graphic that has graced this old blog for a couple of months now. The average lifetime of a header around here has been in the 2-3 month range, so it’s time for new header livery.
The current header is a picture of the flag towers atop Fraser Hall, on the University of [...]
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