Dec
08
2008
I’ve helped several clients pick out new computers recently and I found that many of the same questions pop up from person to person. Since there are great bargains on new computers right now, this will be the first in a series of posts explaining what to look for when you buy a computer. Let’s [...]
Dec
07
2008
When you sell on the internet, you can be tarred by association. Even if you never associate with anyone, you are in danger. Many people see the internet as an open sewer, rotten with schemers and scammers and bandits, plotting to steal your money with every mouse click. Whether this is only occasionally true or [...]
Tags: respect
Dec
07
2008
I went to WordPress.com this morning to help a friend diagnose a problem with her blog – and discovered that WordPress.com blogs have been upgraded to WordPress 2.7 (No – WP 2.7 wasn’t what caused the problem. It was just some misplaced text.) WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 appeared on Dec. 1. The final version, [...]
Tags: wordpress
Dec
05
2008
WordPress is a very powerful, highly customizable tool. The folks behind the scenes and the thousands of active developers are very responsive to the needs and requests of ordinary users. But WordPress suffers from one weakness endemic to the Open Source community: there are no easy to understand instructions. Very little about PHP is intuitive. [...]
Tags: home page, wordpress