Spybot Evalutation
Here’s an evaluation of Spybot Search and Destroy. I’ve also found the tool useful, but not as one’s sole protection.
You Get What You Pay For
Check out this story. Of course your mileage may vary. I’ve heard good and bad stories about almost every vendor. Caveat Emptor!
Starting Miniposts
This is the place for links, and the first one, quite properly, is to the Miniposts plugin itself.
New Tag Cloud
Since I started working with tags I’ve been looking for a good tag cloud that works well with my sidebars. I’ve found that with New Tag Cloud. It’s easy to install, works with the WordPress 2.3 tags, and is configurable. I’m using it along with Miniposts which will be good for me to provide quick…
Bad Interview Questions
I’ve been asked some weird questions in job interviews, and I know of many others. Here’s an article I thought might be of value to my clients: Steer clear of these 10 illegal job interview questions. Yes, they are rude, but they are also illegal.
Trying Blogrush
Not here, but on my Threads from Henry’s Web blog. If you want to do me the favor of using my referral, you can do so here. If you sign up I get credit. That is not the part I am testing, however. I am interested in two factors: Does the Blogrush window present links…
Setting Up Tags in WordPress 2.3
If you’re looking for instructions, the following two articles are the best I’ve found: How To Add WordPress 2.3 Tags To Your Current Theme How To Add WordPress 2.3 Tags To Your Current Theme, Part 2 The documentation is a bit brief on the WordPress.org site, and these articles help make it much clearer.
OO Basic | OO Writer | OpenOffice | Wordpress
Updating my HTML Export
In a previous post I provided code for a simple macro I wrote to export text from an Office Writer document that was suitable to paste in the non-visual WordPress editor. The reason I wrote this was to produce the minimal HTML necessary without cluttering the resulting document. Occasionally I write in Writer and then…
Installing Gutsy Gibbon
I upgraded by Feisty Fawn Ubuntu to Gutsy Gibbon yesterday and all went well. The only user note I have is that you do need to be there when the packages are installed to answer an occasional dialog or question in the terminal. I’m happy with the result. The current Ubuntu makes it extremely easy…
Opera Browser Recommendation
As a result of this post, I’ve installed the Opera browser on my Ubuntu Linux machine (Feisty Fawn). I’ll post more on it later, but for now I am impressed with speed and ease of use. If it’s good enough, you may see an Opera button appear on the left sidebar.