Hey, this is a great tool for bloggers and now it’s improved! I was using w.bloggar last year. When I tried the original Beta of Windows Live Writer I immediately saw that it had the same Microsoft Look-and-Feel I was familiar with. It is not Microsoft Word but it had most of the features I [...]
Entries from May 2007
Writer Zone: Windows Live Writer Beta 2 Now Available
May 31st, 2007 · No Comments · General
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WordPress Plugins | alexking.org | Share This
May 28th, 2007 · No Comments · WordPress
This plugin will allow your visitors to share your content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend.
Source: WordPress Plugins | alexking.org
I decided to add another plugin to the mix. To get it to work the way I wanted it to:
I edited the plugin itself to turn off the automatic placement of [...]
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My theme does not validate anymore?
May 17th, 2007 · No Comments · WordPress
After installing WP 2.2 I found out that my HTML would not validate any more. It was generating annoying errors about using ID=”links” more than once on a web page. All of these errors were occurring courtesy of the built-in links widget. It took me some time but I finally found the problem. I noticed [...]
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WP 2.2 Installed
May 16th, 2007 · No Comments · WordPress
I just got finished installing WordPress 2.2. Everything went well except that I got nailed by the wp-cache plugin. I had disabled it before I started the upgrade per the upgrade instructions. When I tried to run the upgrade.php file in the last step of the upgrade procedure, I got a blank screen. After a [...]
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WordPress 2.2
May 16th, 2007 · No Comments · WordPress
On behalf of the entire WordPress team, I’m proud and excited to announce the immediate availability of version 2.2 “Getz” for download. This version includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. It’s named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.
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I typically try to update [...]
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Comic for 16 May 2007
May 16th, 2007 · No Comments · General
Link to Comic for 16 May 2007
I do not know how Scott does it. I am a fan of dashboards but I do realize that you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make them drink. Good decision-making is an art. Politics is just one of those key pieces of information we use [...]
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Need to archive?
May 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Security
From Susan Bradley’s blog(aka SBS Diva) comes…
I have rec’d an email from one of my clients saying that he needs to recover email from 2005 in regards to a lawsuit. There is barely a backup plan in place. It holds backups of everything for a few days only, written only to an external hard drive. [...]
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Don’t Panic, But New Discovery Of Electronically Stored Information In Litigation Rules Now Apply :: WRAL.com
May 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Security
Link to Don’t Panic, But New Discovery Of Electronically Stored Information In Litigation Rules Now Apply :: WRAL.com
Today I read a post over on Susan Bradley’s blog about the need to archive and I remembered this article. This article is a couple of months old and was written by lawyers practicing in the ESI area. [...]
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RE:25 Killer Code Snippets every Good Designer Should See
May 12th, 2007 · No Comments · CSS/WebDesign
I found that this collection of CSS, scripts, html, and widgets caused me to rethink some of the stuff I am doing. I haven’t changed anything but I am getting some ideas of how I could use this stuff.
Round up 25 of the Best CSS, scripts, html and widgets that you can use on on [...]
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More Fixups on the Reworked Reset.css
May 12th, 2007 · No Comments · CSS/WebDesign
This is embarrassing! I have been using a version of Eric’s Reworked Reset in conjunction with my main css for a couple of weeks now and I did not notice that the strong/bold feature was not working in the content of the blog. Putting it back in was easy but it reminded of all of [...]
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The Best Free Software - Features by PC Magazine
May 11th, 2007 · No Comments · OpenSource
I recently reread an article at PC Mag, The Best Free Software, and decided to update my list of favorites. Here are my favorites:
SecurityAlthough I do not have any complaints about their favorites I do not use them. I have used AVG in the past and it was good and stable. I prefer the commercial [...]
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SYDI and System Documentation
May 6th, 2007 · No Comments · OpenSource, SBS2K-SBS2K3
SYDI is a program to document your system. There are a lot of programs you can use to document your systems. Some programs are very sophisticated and provides lots of detail. Although these programs do not cost much, they inevitably have licensing issues and they provide a lot more detail than I care about. SYDI [...]
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WSUS 3.0 problem partially fixed…Hmm
May 4th, 2007 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
To make sure an upgrade works I install it first at home. I remain a little suspicious until I see that everything is working. As a test I release an unimportant patch to make sure WSUS still works. After a day I noticed that the patch had not been applied. A little checking showed me [...]
WSUS 3.0 and ISA 2004 SP3 Updates
May 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
Windows Server Update Services(WSUS)
I was feeling a little adventurous yesterday and decided to update the Windows Server Update Services(WSUS). This package is a great tool for managing and tracking the updates to windows computers in a small business server environment. There are other products that may do a little better job but you cannot beat [...]
More ideas on freeing up space on a windows server boot partition
May 1st, 2007 · No Comments · OpenSource, SBS2K-SBS2K3
Recently I have been plagued with low disk space on the boot partition of my SBS2K3 server. I was confused why this was occurring since I thought I had this under control. When I found some spare time I started to re-examine the typical culprits(e.g. log files and temp files). I found some files but [...]
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