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Sysadmin day

Today is the annual Sysadmin Day, so take the time and honour your hard working local sysadmins that keep things running.
http://www.sysadminday.com/
Update: My boss bought me lunch as a present.  Hooray!

The Wordpress Google Analytics plugin screwed me

I just noticed that after upgrading the Google Analytics plugin for Wordpress, my settings weren’t carried over, and that Google Analytics hasn’t been able to track my pageloads.

I guess it should have squawked someplace that it wasn’t configured… that’d of been nice.  It’s not like the tracking data is critical, but I was [...]

A Wordpress Gripe

I updated to Wordpress 2.6 today, and again, I’m amazed at the tediousness of it. I’m suprised that they haven’t mastered a good way of doing this. For example, the guys at SMF have a system in place that either remembers or you type in your FTP password, and it updates your SMF [...]

Blog revamp

I finally took a good peek at my blog, and wiped my existing install / db, and I’ll add my posts back in manually. The entire thing felt ugly, so with the help of my friend Chris Olstrom I did a reinstall of Wordpress, and he helped me setup FeedBurner plugins and some other [...]