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Category Archives: Tech Tidbits

Feeds, revisited

Earlier this week I was helping a client out with some blog-related questions, and the topic of feeds came up. “I hear it all the time, but I must admit, I don’t really know what a feed is,” she told me. I started to explain, and suggested she read a post about feeds I had [...]

IE6? Really? Still?

Last week WordPress officially dropped support for IE6. I am shocked! Not that they abandoned the dinosaur, but that it took them this long! We stopped testing for it two years ago. But then I went to this site: The Internet Explorer Countdown, subtitled: Moving the world off of Internet Explorer 6. And I wonder [...]

Genius Bar Appointment Etiquette, a Plea

I spent some quality time at the Apple store recently. Our Airport was acting bratty then just quit. So I dropped in on Thursday and was directed to the semi-Genius Bar (my name for it — that table almost in the back where you can see the Geniuses, but you can’t get any face time [...]

Tuesday Tech: Keep it clean and pristine

I recently got an SOS email from a client who was swimming in spam. She calculated that she wasted at least ten minutes a day, if not more, weeding through the junk, some of it seriously offensive, just to find the legitimate mail. “I’m really considering changing my email address, but how can I keep [...]

WordCampSF 2010: State of the Word and SEO News

Earlier this month, Misono and I attended WordCampSF 2010 at the Mission Bay Conference Center on May 1st. It was incredibly informative, with lots of information for upcoming features for WordPress 3.0! (Very exciting for us WP nerds. First, What the Heck is WordCamp? It’s an annual conference organized by our techie community in SF [...]