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I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5, the latest version of the content management system released yesterday.
For me, upgrading was simplicity itself as I used the 1-click install procedure provided by my hosting service, DreamHost.
Literally one click and, fifteen minutes later, the blog is upgraded.
Of course, you do need to do some advance preparations [...]

Making it easy for readers of your content to share that content with others is one of the ways that you can make your blog or RSS feed ever more useful to those readers.
Plus it benefits you, the content creator, as your content gets wider visibility.
For quite a while, I’ve been using FeedBurner’s FeedFlare [...]

I’d planned to do a bit of blog admin this morning including upgrading all my WordPress blogs to the latest version 2.3.3, released earlier this week.
Plans scuppered, though, by a long service outage at DreamHost, the company I use for hosting.
Looks like either a continuation of yesterday’s outage (which is what I thought) or, [...]

I started a new blog this weekend, called Next.
It’s a place where I’ll write about tech - hardware, software, social media, the net, mobile, Web 2.0, gadgets, and more - as I continue my own journey of discovery and satisfying my curiosity about technology, what it means to people and how we communicate.
It doesn’t [...]

This last day of 2007 has been a hefty workday so far. But now getting close to winding down and focusing on celebrating the passing of the year tonight.
One thing still to do later today - record FIR #306 with Shel. I expect we’ll do that over a glass of champagne. Well, I will as [...]

The moment will soon be here to log off, disconnect, turn off equipment and focus on family and friends as we prepare to celebrate Christmas day tomorrow.
Other than fulfilling work obligations during today, plus try and complete a bit of last-minute shopping, the only thing left that I have to do is to record [...]

A sad start to the week as I read the news that Marc Orchant died yesterday.
Marc was a writer at Blognation US. A week ago, he suffered a massive heart attack and has lain in hospital in a coma since then.
I’d never met Marc but I knew him, as one does with so many [...]

I really am nonplussed about Virgin Media.
In October, I jumped over hurdles and through hoops in getting online after my broadband net connectivity disappeared for almost four days.
Most of the hurdles and hoops were to do with dealing with Virgin Media’s premium-cost telephone tech support. Truly, an absolute nightmare, and expensive to boot.
First thing this [...]

From The Friendly Ghost aka Brendan Cooper. Top ten shown in the screenshot out of 100 blogs listed.
This list is quite a project that Brendan has been doing more or less monthly since June.
I don’t pretend to understand the depth of how he works out the ranks in the listing - just as I [...]

The iPhone came to Europe last night. If you’re in Germany or the UK, you can now get hold of one over here.
If you do have an iPhone, no doubt you’ll be spending a lot of time this weekend playing with it and discovering it’s features.
You might be going online with it, and your [...]