keep your wordpress installs up-to-date

I run several websites on my server – nothing heavy, just some various vhosts for {{Apache}}. Many (but not all) of them run {{WordPress}}. At some unknown point (and I haven’t kept the crap that was being used around), over 100,000 files were uploaded to the root directory of one of the websites (the only …
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evaluating “work from home” “opportunities”

It seems the number of advertised “work from home” “opportunities has gone ever higher since the advent of prolific social networking. A not insignificant portion of these opportunities really are legitimate – 31, Avon, Mary Kay … – but a lot of them at the very least feel scammy. The good ones tell you everything you …
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more irrational gun maneuvering – president obama living up to [my] expectations

I was harshly criticized a few years ago when I pointed-out Mr Obama’s anti-gun stances. While several good things for gun owners did happen in his first term, irrational exuberance over the recent shooting in Connecticut has led Vice President Biden to say the following: “The president is going go act,” said Biden, who is …
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why technical intricacies matter

I have been working on a upgrade for one of our customers for nearly a month. Last week we spent about two hours focused on one specific problem that had been rearing its ugly head on an exceedingly-frequent basis: one of the components of the application was routinely pitching OutOfMemory errors from the Java Virtual …
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staybridge suites – avoid like the plague

I rarely have good reason to complain about hotels, restaurants, etc. This is one of those rare occasions. And it was made worse because my wife had to go through it, too 🙁 The following is the message I sent to the general manager of the Fishers IN Staybridge Suites location on Tuesday 19 July 2011 …
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