Monthly Archives: January 2006

Internet Explorer 7 Impressions

Today Microsoft released the new public Internet Explorer 7 beta. Since I’m a web designer, I thought I would give this new version a try. Internet Explorer 7 is suppose to fix some minor web annoyances such as PNG transparency, so I thought I should check that out and see how it effects my websites. [...]

WordPress 2.0.1

The WordPress developers have been hard at work this past month getting WordPress 2.0.1 ready for public consumption, and it’s finally ready. WordPress 2.0.1 is a bug fix release for WordPress 2.0 and is a necessity if you’ve installed WordPress 2.0.
I’ve been testing 2.0.1 since the nightly builds have gone back online, and this release [...]

My Site Design Was Stolen

I don’t know how to even begin this. I’m quite furious. Tonight, during my almost hourly check of my Mint stats I noticed a new unique referrer coming from brendajerryshows.tripod.com. Now when seeing this I immediately thought of Brenda and Jerry’s, a local venue. A few months back I saw a show there played by [...]

Trends 2.0 is Out

After a month of development, Brett DeWoody and myself are finally releasing Trends 2.0. Trends 2.0 is what we both envisioned Trends as from the start; tracking all aspect of your site, not just pages. New features in Trends 2.0 include:

Now two panes; the Internal Pane and the External Pane.
Added watched pages, referrers, and searches [...]

Rootkits Galore

What could be worse then a virus? A rootkit! Yes, those nasty little pieces of arbitrary code which get weave themselves so deep into the operating system the only way to remove them is to completely reinstall Windows.
This past week my dad has been complaining of slowdowns on his laptop. I initially thought it was [...]