geek ramblingsRandom musings of a Southern geekWhither Spam- November 30, 1999 When I switched to my new Slicehost server, I spent a while trying to decide what I wanted to do about email for my domains. I contemplated using Google's domain email service, or some other third-party email hosting. But I just hated giving up that much control of my email ...http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/06/14/whither-spam Weathering the storms- November 30, 1999 We had a batch of bad weather come through here yesterday. I had seen a severe thunderstorm warning earlier in the day, but didn't think much about it. But early in the evening, as we were preparing dinner, the warning sirens started going off, so we turned on the local ...http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/05/21/weathering-the-storms Update on WordPress blog APIs- November 30, 1999 I mentioned previously that the XML-RPC and Atom blog APIs would be disabled by default when WordPress 2.6 is released. This was a matter of some debate within the community, and there has been some clarification: The APIs will not be automatically disabled for sites upgrading from older versions. Since the ...http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/06/30/update-on-wordpress-blog-apis Download Firefox 3- November 30, 1999 If you didn't know already, today is Download Firefox 3 Day. They're trying to set a World Record for the most downloads in a single day. I read somewhere that the fun begins around 10:00 a.m. PST. I've been runing the pre-release versions for a while, and I can confirm that ...http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/06/17/download-firefox-3 WordPress 2.6 Beta 1- November 30, 1999 Last night Ryan Boren announced the release of WordPress 2.6 Beta 1. At first glance, you probably wouldn't notice much difference between versions 2.5 and 2.6. The two biggest new features are Post Revisions, which saves a history of edits made to each post, and support for Gears, which greatly ...http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/06/24/wordpress-26-beta-1 |