Just upgraded from WordPress 1.0.1 to 1.2 on Alex’s recommendation (mass comment editing, for deleting commnet spam), and the upgrade said it succeeded.
Now I can’t log in. WTF!!!
Turns out that the cookies in the browser were preventing me from logging in. Clearing the cookies for Wordpress on my site fixed the problem.
One other bug that I found was in requesting a new password. A new password was sent to me in email, for the user “”, but WordPress did NOT update the database. Anyhoo, I figured it out and everything worked out it the end.
Why can’t everything upgrade as smooth as tasks? 
This is NOT a rhetorical question.
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Just try to install SCPlugin, a Finder contextual menu for Subversion (svn). Works just as well as TortoiseSVN does on Windows, so I am a happy camper.
In case you try to build and install it yourself, the installation file misses one minor point. Once you have installed it, and restarted the Finder, you have to go to its preference pane and turn it on! I would have expected it to be on by default.
Jolly useful though, for those commandline disadvantaged.
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Checking my weblogs, it seems that bloglines has me syndicated for 3 subscribers. That is 3 more than I ever expected, an I thank the readership. BUT, there is an interesting aside: Bloglines is the number one hit to my pages, with 5.7% of all hits in August. That’s more than any searchbot!
bloglines is #8 on the list of consuming bandwidth. Out of the 20000 hits so far this month, bloglines has wacked me 1007 times. Maybe the benefit will come with the volume of subscribers
Perhaps I need to market myself better???
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I am totally befuddled every time I meet someone that thinks X technology is the next big thing, and it MUST be used for everything. I have seen it lately with JMX, EJBs, Web Services, XML, XSLT, etc.
This is a wake up call for those people: These technologies are just tools! They help you do your job faster, easier, better, etc. They are NOT a religion! Technologies are not Jesus (the alpha and omega, beginning and end, etc). They are just there to help you in some way such that someone gets more money by the fact that you are using them.
If you are sitting in a room of ‘true believers’ at some conference, and feel like your getting all hyped up about something, just think about the last thing you heard about that received this much hype. Did it pan out? Is it still around? Is it the be-all, end-all that was promised. The answers are typically kinda, yeah, and no!
History will prove me right every single time. And for that time that it doesn’t, well that is just an anomoly 
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I have been getting a lot of comment spam lately, and I was just wondering how people are dealing with it. I don’t get many valid comments, but I do NOT want to turn them off.
How do you deal with comment spam?
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I was first introduced to it at the codehaus, and now I am in love with it. The HTML colored diffs even go down to a word level, which is just awesome.
Check it out at: http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/cvsspam/
I was using the apache.org log_accum.pl to send the commit diff emails for my own repository, but you can bet I will be switching to CVSSpam for all my code. Nice job guys!
I had it installed and working in 15 minutes flat! And my abs are flat now!
Seriously, the only wish I have is that it worked for my subversion repositories as well, as the tool is head and shoulders above anything else out there.
MHO, of course
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Checking my latest webstats, it seems that the broswer wars have about evened out, at least for my audience. From a ‘finger-in-the-air’ normalization (excluding GoogleBot, MSNBot, YahooSlurp, etc), I am seeing that IE6 has a slight lead (10% more) over Mozilla (5% more) over Safari.
It seems that Safari is growing rapidly, Mozilla is growing moderately, and IE 6 is shrinking significantly. Of course, most of the user agents hitting this sight are RSS readers, so I threw those out of the stats as well
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Just testing out my source level Java to D converter, so I converted the Java Collections API to test it out. The result is dj. Check it out at here. Currently, only HashMap and its descendants are done at this point.
If you’ve never heard of D before, you might want to check out this. D is basically a native-compiled, garbage collected, C-compatible systems programming language. Something of a marriage of the best bits of C, C++, and Java. You may just like it.
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