Well, that was fun.
We've been offline for a long, long time. I don't know exactly when the problem started. Last month, St. Louis got rocked by a huge storm and we were without power for five days. When it came back, my...
View ArticleIn case anyone\’s wondering why I don\’t run an open forum anymore…
I think David Pogue sums up what's wrong with online etiquette pretty well.
View ArticleAnd we have safely arrived in the 21st century.
It wasn’t the smoothest of transitions, but it went a whole lot better than it could have. I’ve moved the venerable Silicon Underground, with its nearly 1,800 posts spanning a little over a decade, to...
View ArticleIf Google sent you here instead of to what you were looking for…
Please type whatever you were looking for into the search bar in the upper right. I’ve just upgraded to new software, and Google hasn’t re-indexed the site, so my old links are broken. Thanks for...
View ArticleTagged!
I’ve only wanted tags for about 10 years. Tags are little keywords you can use to help categorize blog posts. And the first blog I ever saw use them used them liberally. You’d read a post, and at the...
View ArticleSorry about earlier
This site was down most of the day. The storms that hit the midwest today didn’t do a lot of damage in my neighborhood, but they did cause some power hiccups after I left for work, and my network...
View ArticleFixing my b0rken WordPress installation
A little over a week ago, WordPress started acting weird. First, it just got dog slow. Then my site stats page started freezing until I scrolled down and then back up again. Then I started seeing a...
View ArticleTop posts of 2010: A retrospective
I don’t normally do this, but then again, I’ve never had these kinds of statistics at my disposal either. So I’m going to take a minute to look back at the most popular posts of 2010, and pontificate a...
View ArticleIntegrating WordPress 3.2 with Twitter
Rich P. tells me all the cool kids use Twitter now. And that some people, instead of using RSS feeds, want to get blog updates from a Twitter feed. I’m about four years late to that party, but I’m not...
View ArticleDROP DATABASE wordpress;
This week, I doubled back down in earnest to get my webserver running on the hardware I bought a year ago. After getting Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on the box and playing together nice, I...
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