use prettypress if you’re running a wordpress blog

Like my list of used Chrome Extensions, I’m building a list of recommended {{WordPress}} plugins. But until I get it done, I have to give some pretty big props to PrettyPress. It’s a plugin that lets you edit in Visual, Text, and {{Markdown}} – the markup format of sites like reddit, {{GitHub}},, {{GitLab}}, and the …
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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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organizational knowledge capture, retention, and dissemination

Knowledge capture, retention, and dissemination has been an interest of mine for a long time. I have written about various aspects of it before. The most vital commodity any organization has is the knowledge of its members – it does not matter if it is a historical society, company, church, or school: the organizational knowledge …
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