I’ve slipped this last month.  Honestly, I’ve been extremely busy.

Next week, back work here!

Good morning everyone and welcome to a new month. With the start of a new month I thought I’d declare HP a winner in the server popularity poll, and start a new poll.

This month, what backup solution do you use?

Vote now!

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I just found out that the wordpress servers had a security breech recently. If you have downloaded Wordpress 2.1.1 over the last few days there is a major security hole in it. You need to upgrade to 2.1.2. I’ve had my version up and running for a while now, but upgraded just to be safe.

In an attempt to constantly improve my site (and google pagerank) I’ve recently installed 2 new plugins. 1 automatically generates a list of related posts, the other automatically generates a list of technorati tags. (Because I’m to lazy to add them myself.)

I’m going see what they produce over the next couple of weeks and decide if I want to keep them or not. In the meantime, I apologize if they return some “odd” results.

This is just hilarious! This guy is trying to use Vista’s Speech Recognition software to write a Perl Script with no luck.

Since I was migrating to a new host, in all my infinate wisdom I figured it was as good a time as any to upgrade from Wordpress 2.0.4 to 2.1.1.

Most of the process was seemless. I really have to give credit to the Wordpress team, installing and upgrading wordpress is a snap. However, due to my recent migration I had some issues.

Any page in the admin panel that related to adding or editing a post or link wouldn’t open. I found out this was due to an error in my database. The fields for “id” were not set to auto-increment. Once I corrected this everything started working.

The other thing was fixing my template. Some of the functions were changed for this new version.

However, I think that everything is FINALLY 100% working. Now, if I could just leave well enough alone…..

I just migrated to a new host and had some problems getting everything to work correctly. Please leave me a comment if you see any errors.

Thanks,

Alex

It looks like YouTube is down right now.

So if you see an empty place where a video should be, you know why.

I’ve been posting too many YouTube videos lately…. and in honor of this, I’m posting another video. This one my wife sent me.

This is a parody of tech support calls that all us geeks have had to go on, only this is slightly older technology.

CNN just posted a very interesting article about the Bush administration applying pressure to mislead the public about the effects of global warming.

“Among those scheduled to make comments were two presidential hopefuls — Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Barack Obama, D-Illinois. Both lawmakers favor mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, something opposed by President Bush, who argues such requirements would threaten economic growth.”

This just makes me mad! Too many politicians are afraid to take a stand. Take coal for example. Coal is extremely messy to burn, and yet 50% of the electricity generated in the Us is from coal burning plants. Any politician who would take a stand against burning coal would be faced with great opposition from the Coal industry. They would distort facts about global warming, scare those who work and live in coal mining regions, and attack the politician on a personal level. I know that you might not think of the Coal lobby as being very powerful, so let me repeat myself: 50% of the electricity generated in the US is from Coal burning plants. That’s a lot of coal being bought and sold.

The simple fact is, environmental science helps the economy. It’s been a fact of history, new technologies in general promote economic growth. One industry may die, but a new one (or more) takes it’s place.

Example: US car manufacturers can’t sell their products in many foreign countries because they are not “clean” enough. Better fuel efficiency would allow us to sell cars overseas, which in turn helps the economy.

You can read the article on CNN’s website here.