I seem to be having trouble with my installation of Wordpress sending out pings to other sites, and also using the Ping-o-matic and Technorati RPC service.
This is becoming a nuisance, as every time I post (which has been becoming gradually more frequent lately), I have to manually ping Technorati.
I have refrained from using other blog [...]

Just as I finish updating my version of Wordpress – another one comes along!
Although a bit of a nuisance, I security on your blog is never a bad thing!

I’ve just ‘played’ Sky One’s viral marketing campagin promoting the new series of 24 through the www.ctuagent.com website.
A mildly entertaining diversion which has you looking at YouTube and other sites that present themselves as authentic.
It’s the first time that I’ve actually participated in one of these marketing campaigns – but I quite enjoyed the anonymous [...]

Knowing at what temperature a CPU is running at is quite a handy thing. Especially if you are concerned that a processor is running too hot.
Here’s a guide from the chaps at The Heatsink Guide to let you know the maximum temperature of a processor.
Quite useful if you want to check that a heatsink is [...]

I was running a system upgrade for Junior Librarian today, and came across a couple of computers that refused to run the update provided by MLS.
After clicking the ‘Update’ button, you could receive the following dialog boxes:
Update: here err=53

and
Software Update: File not found: vb6stkit.dll (53)

To resolve this to install the update, you need to visit [...]

With IE7 on the prowl, I’m having to look at self-signing certificates again to make them work properly.
I found a nice straight-forward how-to on Eric Longman’s blog, which keeps it simple using a Linux box and Windows Server IIS.
Check it out

Although I’ve fixed my certificates, there is still the problem with IE7 showing a big, [...]