Monthly Archives: January 2007
WordPress Database Backup Re-release: Version 2.0
January 22, 2007 – 3:28 am
With WordPress version 2.1 scheduled to appear later today, I’m releasing a new version of the popular WordPress Database Backup plugin. Originally developed by Skippy who’s now working on projects other than WordPress, this plugin has been bundled with WordPress installations for about a year. But today users downloading version 2.1 of WordPress will discover [...]
Installing Wine on Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) 64-bit
January 12, 2007 – 1:36 am
Using a 64-bit operating system is somewhat like being left-handed: you feel with some justification that you’re orbiting among the elite, but the world is designed against you. Installing Wine on 32-bit Ubuntu was a breeze: just a couple lines of APT. However, for 64-bit systems you have to compile Wine yourself. Even following the [...]
The MBTA’s Grand Social Experiment
January 5, 2007 – 10:53 pm
Returning to Boston this week from Christmas travels, we discovered the MBTA, Massachusetts’ public transportation authority, had made two surprise changes. Breaking “a tradition that has been around so long that current T officials do not know exactly how [it] started,” the MBTA has stopped offering free outbound service on its Green T trolleys. Simultaneously–and [...]