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Sat 6 Sep 2008

Upgraded to WordPress 2.6 — more news

Posted by Happy under Tools
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Turns out the upgrade is far from smooth. They did something to the database to support a better structure for categories and tags. The result is that the conversion and database upgrade deleted the names of all my categories. It also did some rather strange name mangling.

That took a bit of database editing and some guesswork to fix. Thanks for nothing! I wonder what the next upgrade has in store…

 

Thu 24 Apr 2008

My GPS

Posted by Happy under General, Tools
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A friend asked recommendations for a no frills handheld GPS, for rural use rather than nivigation.

I have a Garmin GPS60. It’s simple, rugged and very accurate. It has a USB computer connection, so you can easily upload and download data to the computer.

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