http://www.sholsinger.com Stephen Holsinger's blog about the web, Linux, CSS, PHP, and more Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:58:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are a professional web developer and you haven't yet taken the 2008 ALA Survey you may want to consider doing so. It provides some interesting insight on the career landscape for people of our expertise and trade. I for one like to see what the world marketplace is ... http://www.sholsinger.com/archive/2008/08/a-list-apart-survey-2008/ I upgraded WordPress from 2.2 to 2.6. It told me it needed to upgrade the database. OK, sure. So when I get things working again, I noticed that there were many corrupted characters and stuff. I call upon the WP team to do a bit more testing in the future. Hell ... http://www.sholsinger.com/archive/2008/08/upgraded-to-wordpress-26/ For quite some time I have been thinking about how I don't play games anymore. I often drift back to my 10 day trial period of World of Warcraft®. I really do want to play it. I know I would enjoy it. Unfortunately for my inner gamer, I am a ... http://www.sholsinger.com/archive/2008/08/no-time-for-games/ It has been a long time since Blizzard has released a title in their Diablo® line of computer video games. I have watched both the cinematic and gameplay trailers and I admit that I am very excited. I'm almost excited enough to pull out my old Diablo® II discs ... http://www.sholsinger.com/archive/2008/06/diablo-iii-is-coming/ In March of 2007 I built a file server for ELK Lighting, Inc. The server was built from a bare bone kit purchased from Global Computer Supplies, a subsidiary of Systemax, Inc., and it seemed like it was going to be the right system for the job. The job was ... http://www.sholsinger.com/archive/2008/02/intel%c2%ae-pentium-d%c2%ae-space-heater-840/