Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I saw in my WordPress Dashboard “News” feed that another WordPress update is in the works. Good God, when will this madness end? It seems like just yesterday that we released WordPress 3.1 Dudes, it WAS just yesterday….. *sigh* Little do they realize that many of us hesitate after a new release, preferring to wait [...]

Oh my word. LOL. There’s another update!!! WordPress users, you’ve probably seen the little notification in your blog dashboard. WordPress 3.0.1 is out. Looks like it’s a maintenance upgrade, taking care of a bunch of issues missed in the last upgrade. I love WP, I really do. It is GREAT. But the updates keep me [...]

Well, I took the plunge. To WordPress 3.0. For you WordPress newbies out there, I remember the olden days, back… Ohhhh… TWO years ago before WP incorporated the automatic upgrade feature. Back then, we used to have to update our blogs manually. As in SAVE everything first. As in upload (via FTP) all the new [...]

I was never a great fan of those mega-monster, dialup-choking service packs from Microsoft anyway, but I guess they were necessary from time to time. Windows XP is just over seven years old now, and Windows is getting eager to dump XP for their Vista and latest OS, Windows 7. I still have quite a [...]

Like the sands of the hourglass, like the political tweaking of the Medicare supplement plan, software updates are ever with us. Two biggies hit the scene this month. Here’s what’s up… Firstly, if you use the Firefox browser, it is advisable that you update to the latest version, 3.5. The update fixes some serious security [...]

Another major WordPress update is on the way! This looks really good, although I am personally tired of updating WordPress every month or so, across five blogs. I hope this is the last update for a while. I’m really gratified that the WordPress geeks are so attuned to changes and improvements, but wow… I’ve been [...]