WordPress › Support » No images in rss feed. I had this problem so this is the first post with the new settings. I wonder how many RSS readers I have who will care? Sometimes I think that WordPress is just another kind of vanity publishing. You really wonder if it is worth the effort or if there is a better way to help the world.
Part 1: Four Totally Bizarre Tourist Destinations – All That Is Interesting – StumbleUpon. Beautiful tourist destinations! You will want to give this page the once over.
It was a disaster. I don’t know where to start in explaining it.
The first day that VaultPress transferred my site over, they had problems with their database. Well that seems reasonable, since that is a big request and I’ll just wait a few days until the database is ok. I am sorry to report that I had database problems every few days.
The last straw was a few days ago when I went to my site in the morning to check on it, and it had a 500 error. The note on the webpage said to tell Fatcow if I did anything wrong. I hadn’t done anything unusual. No updates, or installing werid plugins. Fatcow responded later and said they had fixed the problem, but the damage was done. My numbers were the lowest they were since my 3rd month blogging. That meant lost revenue from showing the banner at the top, and that’s how I pay for the site.
I am using Inmotion Hosting now and I hope it will be better than the other WordPress hosts I have tried. Why is it so hard to have reliable hosting? I guess that starting with WordPress.com set a high expectation for me. That things would just work, and that the performance would be great. So far I haven’t had any problems with the new host. There might be a small problem with a third party plugin for Chrome/Firefox, but I will let you know if I get that resolved. I haven’t told them yet, so I will go do that now.
I don’t know about you, but I peak in remembering about 5 different passwords. After that they all seem to get fuzzy when and where I should use them.
So I spend some time at websites resetting my password to the newest password that I am using. In the decade of using passwords, I have about 50 different passwords that I have used. However I mostly use 5 passwords and that is sometimes due to the silly nature of website authentication.
Isn’t passwords on the Internet a mess? The bank that I use won’t allow punctuation or special symbols. Isn’t that silly? So I must have a unique password for them. Another website requires 12 digits, so I have an extra password for them. Most sites require 8 digits with a mix of upper/lower and punctuation. Those are normal. One site required a 16 digit password. I rarely visit them. I can’t remember the site because I always had to reset the password.
I have tried systems like OpenID and using Yahoo/Twitter/Facebook login. Those help but still are a terrible way to authenticate. Generally when you do that, you give those places rights to tweet or communicate in your name and give up some privacy. Not worth it to me, so I normally create an original account. What makes authentication worse is when sites have enforced usernames that are all upper case or lowercase. Why not give people the most flexibility instead of being so proprietary.
The older I get the less I am tolerant of proprietary formats and processes. I think the growth of open source has made people more sensitive to vendor lock in, and push against that. It is strange therefore, that we seem to embrace vendor lock-in with Apple. Clearly they have clever products, but is that enough to safeguard our choices and liberty? I do not think so.
So what do passwords protect us from? A cynic would say unemployment. By using them, we ensure we have a job. However the real truth seem to be that since passwords can be cracked, they are a poor security choice. Passwords would be great if people’s memories were better. However since most people use the same password for everything, it becomes more of a security risk than less of one.
Installing Flash on mbp (shipped with…: Apple Support Communities. I haven’t ever had a problem with Flash or Java being unsafe but I keep things constantly updated. I have had many mac virus that have used JavaScript to launch into my computer. Turning off JavaScript is a very helpful thing if you want to be safe. a brody suggests the following:
Flash is as safe as Adobe makes it. There are occasional security updates regarding it. Some animated websites require it, while others do not. Play around with websites and see if any really needs it that you really need access to. If you find some do, you should also recommend they consider switching their Flash to HTML5, which eats up less processor cycles, and because it is maintained by the open source community is more likely to be secure. Don’t click on animated advertisements and banners, unless you are absolutely certain they are legit. Don’t believe any popup saying you should install asking you to install anti-virus software. Just close those windows with the red button in the upper left corner and proceed going through websites. If they make a window you can’t close, bookmark any sites you are on, and quit the web browser.
Five Copywriting Errors That Can Ruin A Company’s Website – Smashing Magazine. This has some good marketing information and mistakes that I see many websites do. I sometimes wonder what the point of many websites are. Certainly there is something beyond just getting views and showing ads?
• Create a Free Website with our Website Builder – Jimdo. This seems like it could threaten WordPress current dominance in small business and personal CMS. The fact that it is very low-cost for the professional version and offers so much. I am going to try it out.
Feeling Blue? Why The Most Popular Websites Are Blue | Web Central Station – StumbleUpon. These reasons make sense. I choose blue on my website because it seemed the most color neutral. I have tried a variety of color schemes and it worked the best for me.
