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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-18

@jtimothyking You can write quickly or well. Choose one. in reply to jtimothyking #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-18

Theater is still used to fight against censorship and oppression: http://planetmike.com/x/38 (The Belarus Free Theatre) # @eFax Why was my free account terminated without a word to me about it? And how do you find the free service? It's not visible on your site. in reply to eFax # DCist: Signature's Salute to Kander & […]

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-16

Why in the world is someone at the Pentagon using IE 6.0 to surf the web, with tons of MS discussion toolbars activated? Doesn't seem secure # @perishable No, most people think Facebook is the internet. Walled gardens suck. in reply to perishable #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-15

eFax did away with their free fax services earlier this year. Thanks for letting me know. Now that I need to get a fax, I can't. grumble. # I just used zamzar.com to convert a MS Works file to something useful. (It's been years, and then I get two .wps files this week) # Just […]

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-14

I really dislike Ticketmaster's web site. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-13

How many tweets per day is too many? I'm thinking the threshold is around 10, if you're actually reading tweets, not just amassing followers # @twitter Suggestion: In a person's RSS feed, could you make any links actually clickable, so we can click them in our feedreader? Thx. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-12

Just learned about the fdisk and ethtool commands for linux. Thanks ServerBeach tech guy! #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-11

@biz from new TOS "If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates" giving links to relevant interests areas is bad? # Where was I on 9/11: http://planetmike.com/x/911 # It seems strange to have to track down my sales guy at my webhost so I can buy a new server. Emails haven't been […]

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-10

The Last Will and Testament of Silverdene Emblem O'Neil http://planetmike.com/x/1o # Apple has done something sneaky in the new iTunes: http://planetmike.com/x/2d #

Two Ideas for Mitigating Future WordPress Vulnerabilities

This weekend there has been a plethora of news stories about pre-2.8.4 versions of WordPress being hacked (Lorelle, Matt or the Guardian). The official way to protect yourself is to install an upgraded version of the system. My first suggestion: The administrators of a WordPress blog should be sent an email once a new release […]