Author Archives: paulschreiber
WordPress batch upgrade
If you run a web server and have multiple installations of WordPress, upgrading them all is a pain. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could update a dozen WP installs at once? Wouldn’t it be even better if you could update the Akismet plugin at the same time? (WordPress releases independently of Akimset, and their …
Helen Mirren and Sheryl Sandberg on gender
I’ll take obscure error messages for $400, Alex
GenerationX updated for Snow Leopard
When you work on your family tree — or genealogy project — you’ll work with GEDCOM files. Sites like Geni and ancestry.com can export (and sometimes) import these files. There are a few Mac programs for editing GEDCOM files: Reunion ($100), Heredis ($70), MacFamilyTree ($50) and GEDitCOM II ($65). These are varying degrees of nice, …
Amazon Associates has a sense of humor
Why are you signing up for Amazon Associates?
In which a plan comes together
Math is hard, Mint edition
Huawei / Wind Mobile Connect Manager’s fuzzy math
HP’s Epic DFS fail
In hardware engineering lingo, DFS is “design for serviceability.”