Ok everyone loves to bash Vista. It’s the in thing. I get it. I run vista with the User Access Control (UAC) turned off. Once that is done, it is modern version of Windows XP with some nice features built in....
WordPress 2.6 has been been trouble. There’s been confusion about whether it would be out in July or August. There was one date in the road map, and one in Trac. On Sunday night, Charles Stricklin and I recorded episode 43...
I found this in a friend’s 404.html file: < !-- - Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new - "feature" to Internet Explorer. If the text of - an error's message is "too small", specifically - less than 512 bytes, Internet...
When working with graphics files on your blog, it is always smart to optimize their size for their targetted use. A simple corner picture does not need an original size of 8.1 mega pixels. On a windows machine, MS Paint can...
If you are at WordCamp 2007, one of the best sessions was Google’s own Matt Cutts discussion on optimizing your WordPress blog. You can see the whole presentation over on John Pozadzides site’s One Man’s Blog. Here is the link. You...
I was just over at the PHPMyAdmin site and saw this quote: Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.11, which will probably be the last series supporting PHP 4. Notice the “probably” stuck in there. They are testing the waters. If phpMyAdmin is dropping the whole PHP 4 line, it just might push the...
OK this is a MAJOR shout out to Daniel Wischnewski for teaching me some new keyboard shortcut. Did you know that the first ten (upper) programs in the Quick Launch area are accessible with the [Win]+[1] through [Win]+[0] key combos? For example in my setup [Win]+[1] is ZTreeWin. [Win]+[4] is the Vista Snipping Tool (C:\Windows\System32\SnippingTool.exe Try it!!!). [Win]+[0] is the DOS prompt....
Hi all! Remember me? I’m the guy that pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth back in May! I have been THOROUGHLY enjoying my new job at b5media. And there’s been soooooo much to do at b5 that I’ve...
I was providing some of my user agent strings to Aaron for some of our internal development. I thought I’d log them here. Here are the browsers I’m running on my laptop, as websites see them: Opera/9.22 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;...
In working with websites, the only major browser I’ve not been able to test under was Safari. I’ve got IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera and Mozilla installed and even Konqueror on dual boot on my desktop. But I never could test for Safari....