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Insight – to McAfee?

Those who know and read know that it is an inside joke with some folks I know from McAfee that you just do not offer poor customer service to someone from the little spot in the road I did most of my growing up called McAfee or they will just take their business elsewhere. I am left in a icky place after my dealings with Insight, over the last week but especially yesterday. But to really get the full picture I have to make up to Friday a week ago, on the 3rd of February…

Rehoming – Two Cats

Long story short… we have two cats, that I like just fine and the wife absolutely loves. Actually there are three total, two of which showed up as strays and have been taken care of us for several months. We are getting ready to move and the location does not suit one cats inside life and outside potty style and we feel like, with it lacking a garage that it would be best to get to just the one cat. Much regret, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do. That is all some background, as my real gripe is with the people who can NOT read the rules that are for the site Craiglist.org and some of it is not without complaint toward Craig himself mind you…

IntenseDebate vs. Disqus

Realize that a few months ago I gave Disqus a trial run based on something I had read about it pulling in comments from other sources. However, that particular function seemed to work sporadically at best and so after a few days of testing I rolled it back. However, without much brain power having been spent, it is clear the comments increased during that short-lived attempt. So, now I come back asking if I were to consider a return to such a community/comment building system – which is the better option – Disqus or the very popular IntenseDebate?

Getting Auto Update to Work on WordPress

The last few days I have been working on moving my blogs (and a few other sites) over to a different hosting platform, of sorts at least. Specifically, what I have been moving too is actually semi dedicated virtual server over at Linode. So, basically what you get over there is a blank virtual sever that you can put whatever flavor of operating system you desire and build everything from the ground up. Setting up a LAMP based server on an Ubuntu flavored server was my plan and the way I went forward…

BigDump: Staggered MySQL Importer

All I can really say about this awesome little PHP tool is just how much I wish I had a known you sooner. I recall the last time I moved WordPress sites around in mass from one server to another. Fortunately at that time I was only really working with two sites that had really large databases and in the end at that time I just did some cutting up myself in smaller sections of SQL stuff in order to get them to run in both a time and memory space that the server would allow. As I am preparing to that again with some of my stuff and even more importantly on a large-scale with some sites at work I needed to find something else. Enter stage left, BigDump.