Never use the Lifestream and wp-twitter plugins at the same time on WordPress 3, or you’ll end up in a feedback loop you’ll never believe.

Lifestream was fetching twitter feeds and putting them on my WordPress blog, and then WP-twitter was posting those posts back to Twitter which Lifestream fetched again and posted, etc. etc.

Found it, fixed it, now I hope my 100 (yes, I AM popular) followers will forgive me.

If you are currently using an 8 character (or less) password than you really have no security at all. With today’s cheap and fast computing power, a skilled hacker can crack an 8 character password in under two hours. And it doesn’t matter if your password is “H%gd1f4&” or “password”. Today’s fast computers will iterate through all possibilities, from AAAAAAAA to zzzzzzzz (or for you computer geeks: from !!!!!!!! to ~~~~~~~~) and everything in between, in under two hours.

For now, it is best to switch to a 12 character password. Using current computer power would take about 17,000 years to crack. However, computer speed continuously increases, so that number is shrinking by the day.

So what to do? Experts say that thinking of read more

Yes, I finally did it. I installed a new theme for my blog. Functionally it is working, although there’s still a lot of tweaking to do. But I figured three days is enough to be down…

The Photo and Pages sections are being worked on the coming weeks, so keep checking back to see the final result. All other sections will be worked on as well.

Anyway, don’t hesitate to let me know what you think. (be kind).

Discuss.

The next time you grab your digital camera, phone or PDA to browse the ‘Net or talk to your friends, or control your fridge, or whatever you do with your phone, I want you to think of the two people who made it possible: Professor Steve Furber, and Sophie Wilson (formerly Roger Wilson). Back in the early eighties, these two people, with no team or money, developed the original ARM1 microprocessor chip, the predecessor of the StrongARM chip, which core is now used in over 90% of the world’s hand-held devices. Without their work, there would not have been such an explosion in hand held devices as we have seen in the past ten years. While Intel and IBM just wanted to make bigger read more

I will be working this weekend (weather permitting: wireless is no fun in a thunder storm) to upgrade my webpage to WP 2.8.1 and install a new theme. This Blue Zinfandel theme has served me well, but is beginning to show its age…

So over the course of this weekend, widgets may stop working, disappear, reappear, and screw up the layout–no worries: I’m on the case!

See you all on the other side!

Neo from hallsofmacadamia requested this bit of code which will allow you to put your (ever growing!) Blogging Tories Blogroll list into a scrollable “window” to reduce its screen size:

Just wrap your <script></script> code from BT with a <div> like so:

The <script> code you already have, it comes from the BT site when you sign up.
The sizes specified in the style tag of the div are the width (22opx)  (make it the width of your sidebar minus 1 or 2) and the height (300px) of the scrollable box. You can put it to any size you want by changing these two numbers. A scrollbar will be automatically added by your browser if your list is longer than your height (by specifying read more

This is our fifth anniversary at shopWebSpace.com and while it has been a good five years, we are implementing a shift from basic web hosting to ready-to-go packages for the technology challenged (while keeping some hosting packages for our current customers).

I have noticed in recent years how everybody wants to get on the web, and many people have the know-how, but there are a lot of people out there who want to start a blog or a community website or even a social network, but have no knowledge of servers, gigabytes, terabytes, databases, DNS records, email forwarding and what have you, and so are “stuck” having to use Google Blogs, or Blogspot (no offence) for their basic needs. Even though those are free read more

Microsoft announced a new system called Windows Azure. It is joining Amazon.com Inc. and other rivals in selling information storage space and computing power “in the cloud,” distributed across massive data centers worldwide. That will let companies build web-based programs without having to manage their own data centers.

Leaves this question: do you think it is wise to put all your data in Microsoft’s hands?