Always remember to take the occasional look in your rearview mirror.
How the JournalSpace operator plans to recover: here, and here. Or not.
Google Cache to the rescue — but only if…
this method only works for people who did not have their blogs/journals set to be viewable only by other JournalSpace members, or set to Friends &/or [...]
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computers,
stupidity
I had a new implementation of WordPress installed on a motorcycle site, which was previously written in html. I wasn’t aware of any problems with the WordPress visual editor until I encountered it on the new site. I did a search and was able to come up with quite a few solutions, but none of [...]
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WordPress
I have had some good fortune.
A site was skimming my feeds and had successfully posted a feed article without attribution.
I complained to the host.
Site and posting have disappeared from the internets.
Good job * pats self on the back * but it wasn’t really all my doing.
Thank you, Digital Fingerprint plugin.
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stupidity,
trolling
Here’s an addendum to my original post on internet trolls.
The New York Times online has a seven page discourse on modern-day trolls and their absurdities. From that article you’ll find that trolls have graduated to an ever more mean and hateful presence, even making fun of and encouraging suicide.
Even if you only get as far [...]
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people,
stupidity,
trolling
Oh look — someone is slagging WordPress because of security problems. He goes so far as to recommend a competitor, in this case, Moveable Type, which he promotes on his web site.
Should one take the time to read down to the last paragraph, one will discover that in order to have a secure Moveable Type [...]
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Once more, thanks to the Instant Upgrade plugin, version 0.2 from Zirona. I’ve used it for the last two upgrades, and it has worked quickly and flawlessly. Of course, I also do my daily backups of the database and program modules in the event of any kind of failure. Call me astute paranoid one more [...]
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Updated below
I was having trouble with Beast-Blog.com’s contact form on my site, so I scrapped it entirely in favor of another I found here at The Marketing Technology Blog. He calls it the WordPress Contact Form with Spam Protection.
It’s configurable, it fits nicely on a page, and by the look of it, it [...]
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all five of you:
Fair warning: you might wish to turn off the feed readers for a bit.
I’ve been investigating search engine querys that have hit my blog pages. Consequently, I’m going to be updating some of my posts with metas and tags over the next several days. The reason for this is that while some [...]
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It never ends. Just when I think I’ve found all the blog software and more that I’ll ever need, I learn of another useful little ditty that I can’t resist downloading and trying. That goes for this, too: Post2Blog 3.00 from ByteScout, which is now free for all.
Probably the sweetest surprise is that the software [...]
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