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Merry Christmas 2011

It is that time of year again. When too many people are spending too much money, buying toys for “Santa” to “deliver”, and overeating to “celebrate” the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the offspring of the Creator of the universe and all that is in it. For at least the few seconds it takes to . . . → Read More: Merry Christmas 2011

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Site Changes – Cache Installed to Speed Things Up

I am posting this as a public notice so those of you who are interested in such things can know.

I had noticed the site was getting “slower” as we got more visitors over the last couple of years. One problem with slow page loading is people are generally impatient and will go away if . . . → Read More: Site Changes – Cache Installed to Speed Things Up

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ERACC Web Log User Accounts – Many Deleted

This is just a short article to let you know that I have deleted most of the user accounts here. The reason is, somehow WordPress settings were being reset at random. Since WordPress does not reset itself I suspected “cracking” via a user account since that has been known to happen with WordPress . . . → Read More: ERACC Web Log User Accounts – Many Deleted

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Site Changes – New Plugin CKEditor Added

Within the past few weeks I have migrated our on-line web shop to Drupal 6.x with the CKEditor module added for page editing. I have decided I like the ease of use brought by CKEditor for creating and editing web site pages under CMS. CKEditor is a powerful and feature-rich CMS editor that works very . . . → Read More: Site Changes – New Plugin CKEditor Added

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WordPress Upgrade – Please Bear with Us

Some of you who have followed us for a while may have noticed a dearth of articles here over the past several weeks. This was intentional. We had a planned upgrade and wanted access to our blog to settle down prior to that. Now we can get back to writing articles.

As you can see . . . → Read More: WordPress Upgrade – Please Bear with Us

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Upgrading WordPress Today (NOT!)

Dear Readers,

We are upgrading to the latest release of WordPress today. Hopefully nothing will explode but if it does we will get things working again as soon as possible. Usually there is no problem and we expect this upgrade to be similar.

Gene

Edit: If any of you visited in the three hours we . . . → Read More: Upgrading WordPress Today (NOT!)

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Plugin “Add to Any” Installed

In the interest of self promotion and increasing user friendliness for our web log I installed the “Add to Any” plugin this morning. If one is using Firefox with NoScript then allow addtoany.com in NoScript for the plugin to work for you. Look for the Share/Save button at the bottom of pages and posts to . . . → Read More: Plugin “Add to Any” Installed

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WordPress Update Done

We just completed our WordPress update and everything appears to be working. However, the theme we are using no longer appears to render correctly with the updated WordPress. So, we will be changing themes. We are currently in the process of evaluating WordPress themes and should have a new one that does render correctly with . . . → Read More: WordPress Update Done

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WordPress Update Again

Another WordPress update is out and we are going to be applying it soon. If this “borks” the site we will get it fixed as soon as possible. We may have to change themes (again!) with this update so please bear with us while we do.

For all of you that read what is written . . . → Read More: WordPress Update Again

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1

I just upgraded our web log to WordPress 2.5.1 today. Everything appears “OK” to me but there may be problems that I did not see. If anyone notices a problem with the site please e-mail our web support desk using this Web Site Feedback form (opens in a new window or tab). Thank you!

. . . → Read More: Upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1

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