Why Disqus?

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,…

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You Know… OpenOffice 3 Does Docx

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.…

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Merge

WordPress: Importing Posts Into One Category

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…

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Who Covets Your Mailing List?

A few days ago, I found out (rather late) that Aweber had admitted to a security breach on their systems. Depending where you stand, the damage can be minor or major. While it is reported that their own customer’s data including credit cards, addresses etc were stolen, their customers’ mailing lists’ email addresses were. This…

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