Firefox 8: What the Blinking Cursor!?
Firefox 8 dropped a few days ago. Huzzah! But now I’m seeing a blinking cursor where ever I click: on buttons, in text… everywhere. So how to fix this annoyance?
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Updating WordPress Plugins Locally, Without FTP
It’s been the bane of my WordPress life: every time I get a notification of updates available on my local installation (on my MacBook Pro), either for the WordPress core, or one of my installed plugins, I get a request for FTP parameters. This, I’ve learned, is due to WordPress trying to write a small…
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Sandbox: Running WordPress on Your Local Machine
This weekend was the fourth Toronto WordCamp (WordPress conference), the second I’ve attended, and the first where I’ve presented.
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Importing a Distribution List in Outlook
So I had to send out a notice to about 700 users. I had the list in the users table of my app’s database. I wanted to create a distribution list in Outlook. It’s not as straightfoward as it may sound. The first step is to generate the csv file. Small complication: although I had…
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Ammyy Scam
Yesterday afternoon (October 1, 2011) I got a call from a fellow with a heavy Indian accent, telling me he was from the Windows Centre, and that they’d noticed my computer was running slower and slower every day. But not to fear: within 10 minutes, if I followed his directions, we would be able to…
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When WordPress Goes Wrong
This past weekend I finally sat down to upgrade my WordPress installation. I was at 2.8.4 and heading for 3.1.2. The automatic upgrader wasn’t working (it would start downloading the zip, and freeze), so I had to upgrade manually. (Using the upgrade instructions here.) But when the dust settled, my admin dashboard was FUBAR. A…
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Hover Hubris
How Tucows feels they can unilaterally take your domains.
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Alfred’s OS X Notes – Screenshots and Screen Captures
Every once in a while I need to take a screenshot or screen capture in OS X. (So what’s the difference between a screenshot and a screen capture? None really, as far as I know. But you have to include both so people searching for either will find these nuggets of wisdom.) Invariably I have…
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How Do You Spell AT&T?
Hey Jim. Jim! Hold a minute y’all. I gots a question for you Jim. I want to aks you, how you spell AT&T, Jim? I-N, C-O-M, P-E-T, E-N-T. That’s how you spell AT&T, Jim. How you spell Comcast, Jim? Same fucking thing.
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Shafted In Florida: How AT&T Ruined My Vacation
Currently taking a short break from the winter cold, in Florida. Usually, my parents would be down here, and we would join them; but they had to remain in Toronto due to medical treatments. So we ended up opening the house. My mother called AT&T ahead of our trip, and asked them to have the…
