Eric Florack on December 5th, 2010

Some interesting thoughts on Sarah Palin’s new book…. which I happen to have started reading myself just the other day. I’ll leave Melissa’s thoughts on the book itself to her article. But she, in the process of laying the groundwork

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2010

Core code upgraded to 3.02. Seems to work OK.

Upgraded a few plugins.

The cache routines I installed a few weeks back are running well; average page load time is down to about 2.5 seconds.

Backups ran on automatic.

Upgraded

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2010

An interesting problem showed up after last week’s update.  I started running out of memory while manipulating plug ins.  Turns out that the stock memory allocation settings wordpress had werelow for some of the plug ins I’ve been running.  I’ve

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2010

We’ve had a spot of bother with the plug-ins normally used here.  One of them updated, and crashed the entire system , probably on Friday.  While you were able to see everything that we’ve written to that point, some of

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Eric Florack on October 31st, 2010

Some notes to those who need to know this stuff:

I’ve added a Quick Cache routine to the plugin list.  Seems to work OK.

File backups have been completed as have the DB backups. A few plugin updates have been

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davidl on September 17th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Note to senior blogger, Yes Eric you are still reading your blog.  Sometimes men do bite dogs and sometimes I do both bash Karl Rove and laud Chrissy Matthews in the same post.  These are strong times in which we

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Eric Florack on September 4th, 2010

A bit of programming and presto!   BitsBlog is now available on FaceBook.

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Eric Florack on August 22nd, 2010

As regular readers will know, I’ve had a new job for a few months now which has prevented me from doing much blogging.

That’s changing, with the addition of an HP/Compaq NC6000 nI picked up used for $100. Everything’s there,

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davidl on June 7th, 2010

Just say no to the mosque.  Thanks to Fausta,  video:

It is the Bitsblog Snark of the Day.   And you thought the only videos Fausta posted were tangos.

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Eric Florack on May 23rd, 2010

I’m starting a new category of posts here at BitsBlog, which I hope will be of at least passing interest to you.  I’m going to call the category “The Truck Collection”. It’ll be pics of trucks that really catch my

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Eric Florack on May 20th, 2010

Welcome one and alter the most intense nightly read anywhere on the web ; the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

  • A LIE BY ANY OTHER NAME I notice Ed Driscoll who is filling in for Glenn Reynolds  has an extended post up

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Eric Florack on May 19th, 2010

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere in Blogdom: The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2010

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly raid anywhere on the web… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

It’s a somewhat shorter version this evening because I am out on the road.

  • MISS, USA: Why is it that beauty pageants

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Eric Florack on May 17th, 2010

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the web: The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

  • YEP, IT’S OBAMA’S KATRINA, ALL RIGHT: Not that there was EVER any doubt at all. We now have a month between now

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Eric Florack on May 11th, 2010

Welcome, one and all, to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the web ; the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

  • ELENA KAGEN: Nobody should be surprised at the Obama White House nominating the current Solicitor General Elena Kagan  to the  next

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