Monthly Archives: February 2008

Self-Hosted WordPress to Hosted WordPress.com

My Spam Chronicles site has been dormant since August. There’s a minor WordPress upgrade out now and a major one looming. I don’t want to spend the time needed to upgrade and I don’t want to run old, possibly vulnerable, software. Rather than kill the site I decided to move it to WordPress.com. WordPress.com [...]

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OS X 10.5.2 Part II

I’d been having some minor problems on my MacBook since I upgrade it to OS X 10.5.2 that seemed related to .Mac syncing with my OS X 10.5.1 iMac. So rather than waiting for the weekend to upgrade my primary machine I decided to do it tonight.
The problems I was having were minor [...]

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Yojimbo 1.5.1 Released

Last week Bare Bones software released a minor update to Yojimbo. Yojimbo 1.5.1 is a minor update that contains 7 bug fixes. Click the thumbnail to see a list of fixes. I installed Yojimbo 1.5.1 on my MacBook first and ran it for about a week. I didn’t have any problem syncing with the slightly [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletins for February 2008

Microsoft released 11 security bulletins for February 2008, six are rated critical and five are important.  My Windows XP Pro SP2 installation received the following updates through Windows Update:
MS08-010 - Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer (critical)
MS08-007 - Vulnerability in WebDAV Mini-Redirector Could Allow Remote Code Execution (critical)
MS08-008 -  Vulnerability in OLE Automation Could Allow [...]

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Self-Hosted WordPress to WordPress.com

My Spam Chronicles site has been dormant since August. There’s a minor WordPress upgrade out now and a major one looming. I don’t want to spend the time needed to upgrade and I don’t want to run old, possibly vulnerable, software. Rather than kill the site I decided to move it to WordPress.com. WordPress.com [...]

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Apple TV Take 2

Among the other updates Apple has also released Apple TV Take 2 and it’s available for update through your Apple TV settings menu (or you can wait for it to happen automatically). I installed the update today. I took about two minutes to download and another five to do the actual installation.
There’s a new [...]

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