Do you remember the Twitter outage in December of 2009? Well, Twitter has had many outages so you may not even have noticed it, but this was quite apparent because it actually replaced Twitter’s home page. What if I told you that their servers (the computers that actually hosted the site) did not get hacked even to all outside appearances, it did?

It is true. What really happened is a case of DNS hijacking. Now, I

Some of you noticed that the blog has started using Disqus to manage our comments a few months ago and have written to ask why. Good question!

There is no one particular reason. I did it more to test things out and installed it on several blogs. Some blogs, it went through without any problem, but this one for reasons not made known to me the import didn’t go through in the beginning and I had

Well duh! Can’t believe I wasn’t aware of this for such a long time. Reason being, I was using OO2 line and none of the updates offered me a version 3. But that’s not all, all my searches looking this up on OO site and forums have yielded no solution or that it isn’t supported.

This is my wishlist for OO. That ‘check updates’ include the latest branches as well not just the versions inline with

Some of us don’t set up blogs very often and when we do we realize we miss a few things. Even if you do set up blogs everyday you may have a nagging feeling you’ve missed something.

I call checklists my 2nd brain (ok, maybe 3rd or 4th) because my motto is, Stop hogging those RAMs in the brain for information you don’t need to store. Put it in a checklist and let it remind you.

I’ve had to merge a couple of WordPress blogs before – even merged Blogger into WordPress a couple of times. One of the sticky issues about importing is if you already have two established blogs. How do you merge things and keep things straight? One way is to import the posts from the old blog into one specific category in the new blog.

WordPress by default allows you to select which authors to assign the imports