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Archives: March, 2007

Stuff I Like: Bamboo Cutting Board

25th March 2007

My friends Acacia and Ray gave me a bamboo cutting board for my birthday or Christmas a couple of years ago. Since then, my other cutting boards have sat lonely and neglected. The bamboo board has several advantages. First, it’s very hard, so even rough chopping doesn’t cut into it much. There are a lot [...]

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Upgrading WordPress using rsync

6th March 2007

After the recent flurry of WordPress upgrades I started looking for an easier way to upgrade. This post at techites.com was a good start, but this comment on the post, using rsync, sounded much easier. Here’s the workflow I figured out:

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip (download the latest version)
unzip wordpress-XXX.zip (extract it)
mv wordpress [your-site's-folder-name] (rename the wordpress folder [...]

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