Monthly Archives: January 2007

WordPress 2.1 Plunge

By C.G. | Published: January 31, 2007

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.1 on my own. In the past, I’ve upgraded the blog using the ‘One-Click Install’ feature of my host. And although they are usually quick to update their installer scripts, I thought they were takig their sweet time and decided to do it myself. For the most part, things work [...]

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AIM’ing For Simplicity

By C.G. | Published: January 28, 2007

I have been using instant messaging for a long time. In fact, I think I was one of the early adopters of ICQ – the company that recieved a patent for instant messaging in 2002. I downloaded ICQ when it was still Mirabilis well before it was aquired by AOL. My UIN number is a [...]

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Thinking of Upgrading

By C.G. | Published: January 27, 2007

I’m thinking of upgrading the blog to WordPress 2.1. I did it to my development site and didn’t have a single problem. But just because I didn’t have any issues there won’t mean that things will go off without a hitch here. Here, I’ve got a lot more plugins and a non-standard theme that might [...]

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Snow Day

By C.G. | Published: January 16, 2007

Even though it was barely cold enough to wear a sweater today, I had a snow day. I’m not sure what the graduates of New York City schools have done when it snowed a lot but in the suburbs of my home town, they closed the schools. It was too risky to have kids shuttled [...]

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Taking a Safari

By C.G. | Published: January 15, 2007

I’ve had some problems with Firefox of late and I’ve decided to give Safari a chance. So far, I miss the expandability of Firefox (extensions) and the spellcheck features of the latest release but otherwise, I’m coping with the change. I can’t wait to see what Safari 3.0 is like.