Reread: Print "A man walks into a bar and says ouch." REM: I had to read the title of this post
REM: several times even while knowing it's a joke.
If ("LAUGH") THEN Continue: ELSE Reread:
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Check Your WordPress Website’s Speed and Make It Faster
Google thinks the web should be fast, and that’s kinda the final word. Here’s some (older but still useful) info on site speed as a ranking factor.
I recently found a useful website for testing your website’s speed – it checks the website by accessing it from multiple locations (in multiple countries) and thus gives a better test than just checking the speed in your own browser.
Nifty On-Screen Ruler For Web Design
I was looking for some tool to measure distances in pixels on screen so that I’d know the width of various columns in the themes of some of my WordPress sites (so that I could size advertising to the proper dimensions). A quick search came up with PicPick as the best. It seems pretty powerful – you can measure horizontal or vertical distances as well as do screen captures and color picking. It seems to play nice and just sit as a little toolbar icon when not being used.
WordPress – Be Ready To Be Hacked Again
Ahh… the dreaded
3.0.4 Important Security Update
…a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.”
Yeah. What that says to me is, “A hacker has already looked at the vulnerabilities in 3.0.3 and written a script to exploit it and deployed it on the websites he/she has already hacked so that it can go out and get access to even more web servers by simply crawling the web looking for WordPress installations that haven’t been updated yet.”
How to Dress Up Your IKEA Furniture
Make your IKEA furniture more personal by adding artwork to it – your own photos or a pre-made design.
Enhance PayPal Security With A Security Key
I’ve been looking at WordPress shopping cart plugins and other ways to create an online shopping cart and I came across a link to a feature I didn’t even know PayPal has. Paypal can create random temporary security keys (an additional password for your account that is only good for a short time) to help ensure that only you can log into your account (since you’re the only one who can access this security key).
Merry Christmas Geeky Video
A very nerdy way to get your marshmallows.