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Word 2010 and Thunderbird 3

My major cli­ent uses mostly Microsoft products: Out­look + Exchange and Office. It turns out that the com­pat­ib­il­ity with Open­Of­fice is lim­ited when it comes to large doc­u­ments and defined styles, so I upgraded my old Office 2003 to Office 2010 on my Win­dows 7 PC desktop. And then ran into another prob­lem: file corruption […]

2011 02 14 Comments (1)

Blank Pages After WP Upgrades

I was upgrad­ing the Word­Press site for someone and had a few moments of panic when, after upgrad­ing, all I could see were blank pages. Vis­ions of hav­ing to go through the pain of rein­stalling the data­base from the backup, and upload­ing all the files from the backup, were dan­cing through my head, which would […]

2010 11 27 WordPress Comments (0)

Sender Settings

This took me a while to fig­ure out yes­ter­day, so in the hopes it helps someone else (or reminds me of the solu­tion when I need to solve the same prob­lem again). The symp­tom: Mail.app on my Mac laptop is send­ing email with the wrong “From” header, even though I’ve chosen the right account to send […]

2010 10 19 Comments (0)

Calendars and Sharing

The prob­lem du jour is one that I’m sure lots of people have run into, and one in which the stand­ard answer is for every­one to stand­ard­ize on one tool. Since I have this propensity for stand­ards that mean people can choose the tools they want, I don’t really like that atti­tude, even if I […]

2010 09 17 Comments (6)

Google Apps and Google Docs

For small com­pan­ies, like my one-person con­sult­ing shop and many of my cli­ents, using Google Apps is an obvi­ous solu­tion to the prob­lem of email and shar­ing doc­u­ments and cal­en­dars. The stand­ard edi­tion is usu­ally enough, which makes it free as well. So far email also seems to be delivered more quickly than through my […]

2010 04 05 Comments (4)

More mod_security

After I wrote my piece about mod_security, the people at Packt Pub­lish­ing offered me a copy of their book Mod­Se­cur­ity 2.5, with the pro­viso that I review it. This soun­ded like a reas­on­able idea to me. Over­all, I would recom­mend the book to people who are run­ning Apache and need to know more about rel­at­ively simple […]

2010 01 29 Comments (1)