Seth.Larson

So to at least make an effort at testing the wordpress upgrade to make sure no one’s blog theme/widgets ended up completely broken I made a beta site. Since wordpress stores the URL of its blogs in the database this was initially problematic. sed and mysqldump made it a quite easy transition though.

Dump your database:
mysqldump wordpress -p | mydatabase
sed ’s/blogs\.dootdoot\.com/new\.domain\.here/g’ mydatabase > mynewdatabase

Then import back into mysql, change your wp-config.php domain and things should be cricket. This probably could be filed under “stupid simple” as far as location changing goes.  Although I should add that if you were trying to move to a www.blog.com type domain, wordpress ignores the www

Yeah, its late and I’m going to sleep so instead of typing out a story I put a few pictures up on picasa and you can guess the story.  My ambition is to edit this into something all linky and picture-y, but my ambition was also to become an astronaut.

http://picasaweb.google.com/seth.larson/20090516#

Enjoy

Just saving a link for myself and putting another way to find it via google for something I found useful this weekend.  Canon makes a driver so that you can easily add thumbnail support for their file format in windows xp and windows vista.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=183&modelid=15206#DownloadDetailAct

Here is a fairly good read on something that most business executives and especially consultants seem to have forgotten about.  Actually providing a good service.  So much money is wasted on meaningless trips for executives and executive bonuses and so little on making sure the people talking to the customer know whats up.

I’ve ordered from bhphotovideo.com in the past, now I definitely want to check out their NYC store next time I go anywhere near that far east.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090501/why-circuit-city-failed-and-why-bh-thrives.html

Sidenote: thats the only place I’ve found online that consistently beats Amazon and Adorama.