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Entries from August 2008

Wordpress Upgrade Script

February 22nd, 2007 · 14 Comments

For those of you who run your own blogs, and take care of the updates yourselves, I’ve created a Wordpress Upgrade script. Note: This is a Linux/Unix/Mac OS X shell script, not a Windows batch file.
The script is very simple:

Download the latest Wordpress archive from the website
Uncompress it to a temporary location
Migrate all [...]

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Tags: Admin Tools · Blogging · Downloads · Utilities

GMail-based File Storage

February 18th, 2007 · No Comments

With the advent of Google’s GMail a few years ago, and their explosive increase to 1GB (and subsequently 2GB) of storage in 2005 it was only a matter of time until they opened up the API to allow people to take advantage of GMail’s features.
Enter a series of add-ons for various operating [...]

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Tags: Google · Open Source · Utilities

Timezoneism

February 17th, 2007 · No Comments

OK, I know the term is unlikely to catch on, but the fact remains that people in less populous time zones are often shafted by those who live in larger population centres. In North America, that typically means those on the east coast ignore us westerners (see Western Alienation).
Members of the media are notorious [...]

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Tags: MacBook · Soapbox · Utilities

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

This is a simple, and very effective summary of how Web 2.0 is changing the way we manage knowledge in the 21st century.
Video on YouTube
Though it doesn’t get into great detail about the specifics of Web 2.0, it provides some points for thought around how we interact with the web today, and how it has [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Futurism · Podcasting · Technology · Web 2.0

Sedins Star in NHL Commercial

February 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The new myNHL advertising campaign has a couple of new spokesmen: the Sedins! Starting next week a new commercial for the NHL will debut on national TV. It was shown for the first time tonight on Hockey Night in Canada.
Check out the “Swedish Twins” spot right now on Canucks.com!
This ad is quite amusing. [...]

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Tags: Canucks · Hockey · Miscellany · Movies

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