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Version 2.5 of the WordPress blog platform was released a few hours ago.
I’m about to upgrade this blog to that latest version via the 1-click install functionality provided by my hosting service, DreamHost.They are exceedingly quick off the mark in making this upgrade available, so avoiding the manual upgrade process.
If the upgrade is successful with [...]

A definite ‘OMG moment’ with a computer is when you boot it up and see an error message indicating a problem with your hard drive.
My OMG moment this evening looked like this:

Doubly alarming as it happened after both hard drives in the system - a brand new Dell XPS 420 I received less than [...]

The Event Viewer tool in recent versions of Windows is a useful means to understand some of the things that happen on your computer, especially when you’re looking for why an error of some kind occurred.
In its simplest sense, Event Viewer records details of every single thing going on in your computer. What the operating [...]

Because I’m a podcaster, I use the Podpress plugin for WordPress on my main blog.
It makes it easy for visitors to listen to a podcast here and now - all you have to do is click on the ‘play’ image you see on a post that has a podcast available (see this FIR post for [...]