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  • Unintended Consequences

    I’m always fascinated by unintended consequences, especially when they are an artifact of trying to do something right. In moving to Salt Lake City from California, I’ve been reminded that good intentions and planning do not a perfect world make. I live close to downtown, so I’ve started walking to work. It’s a nice walk,…

  • Chrome: Awww Snap!

    Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of the annoying message about pages dying on Chrome. For the most part it’s just annoying, and clicking “wait” lets the page load. Until this morning, when for some reason Chrome just stopped letting me get to any of my hosted web sites. Whenever I would go to http://www.accuweaver.com,…

  • Hacking a Theme

    Hacking a Theme

    I was setting up a temporary WordPress site for a client as a placeholder for their business. All they wanted was their logo, a link to an existing product page, and a message about the site being under construction. Since they were going to have some design ready shortly, I set them up with a…

  • Recover a broken WordPress

    I was helping out http://www.pmi-sfbac.org whose web site was down. The server was being unresponsive, and Larry Van Cantfort (the Director of Operations for PMI SFBAC) sent me this clue: It appears that httpd has a lot of running processes and when I try to kill them I am unable to. THis is causing the server…

  • Quick fix for Plesk problems …

    Recently after an upgrade of my Plesk panel, my web site was down. In fact ALL of the domains I host on that particular cloud server were not working. A quick call to 1and1’s server guys and it appeared that there was some step in the upgrade process that failed. They had it fixed in…