The Life and Times of Michael Shadle

Rave: Fellowes

I recently called Fellowes to see what my options were for fixing my nearly broken shredder. There's a one year limited warranty, and a lifetime warranty on the blades. For some…

MySQLi support for WordPress 2.0.6

WordPress 2.0.6 was released earlier today. Shortly after I made the 2.0.5 patch. Oh well. Simple enough to make one for 2.0.6. Patch file: wordpress-2.0.6-mysqli.patch.txt Apply…

Quick hack: MySQLi support for WordPress 2.0.5

I wrote this quick hack to enable mysqli calls on WordPress. I prefer using mysqli on all my projects, and typically look change the packages I use to use it as well. I was…

The quest for the end-all backup solution

So I've been looking around for the perfect solution for backups - both my home machines and my server farm (including my customers' data) - I think I've figured out the final…