Monthly Archives June 2008

Get your <html> out of my email

In case it wasn’t already delightfully obvious, I prefer plain text. Html has a place. It can be wonderfully crafted into well laid out and cleverly designed websites thanks to web standards. The web abounds with examples of this. It does not however increase the efficiency or clarity of our business communication. E-mail is not [...]

WordPress update

About time I finished that. I had been testing wordpress 2.5 since it came out on a different system and I finally updated. The administration is so much better now, and it’s worth it for the automatic plugin upgrading alone.

Fun with linux and ascii

I don’t know what it is about simple characters in a terminal that keeps me so enthralled, but it always has. Just recently I was setting up several new machines and doing alot of administrative type duties, checking log files, testing cronjobs for remote backups,  etc… One of my favorite thigns to do right away [...]