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Monthly Archives: June 2009
WordPress upgrade successful
Just upgraded WordPress on my blogs to the latest version. It’s really nice to see how their upgrade process has gone from a confusing “unzip all these files, try not to overwrite your config, and then insert this SQL” to a simple “press the upgrade button and wait a bit”.
I did have a problem with this good old irritating error
Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.zip
Download failed.: Operation timed out after 30 seconds with 351500 bytes received
Installation Failed
To fix this I found the WordPress/Plugin Upgrade Timeout Plugin (catchy name 
) which lets me alter the timeout for downloading files. Setting it to 120 seconds seems to have fixed everything. Upgrading WordPress is once again a one-click thing.
Worse captcha ever…
Really, try and solve this one… There’s supposedly three ‘nature’ images in here. Supposedly…
A really bad implementation of captcha
I hate this crap, it makes me not want to bother registering on people’s websites.
links for 2009-06-13
Kinescopes and old TV
Following on from my earlier post about vacuum tubes I’ve found this YouTube video. It’s a 1949 NBC program comparing their first attempts at TV with the ‘current’ (in 1949) technology. It’s amusing that this video contains some of the first TV recorded, rebroadcast using a slightly better technology, then presumably rebroadcast again on modern TV, and now it’s on YouTube.