Yesterday when I was updating one of my WordPress blogs the automatic update failed and was stuck in maintenance mode. What to do when this happens? First of all, don’t panic! Your blog is not lost for ever, or anything … Continue reading
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” — Rich Cook “A system admin’s life is … Continue reading
It seems that nowadays most people don’t care about privacy on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. The new location service rolled out by Twitter and a similar one under development on Facebook, are another source of potential security … Continue reading
The 10 billionth tweet was sent on March 4 at 1am GMT, according to the GigaTweet site which counts tweets live. The daily number of tweets grows at a staggering exponential rate. In 2007 there were only about 5,000 tweets … Continue reading