Tag Archives: itjustworks

Time Machine (The Mac OS X one)

Computers fail; often.
And if they don’t fail, they get stolen.
And if they don’t get stolen, they get lost.
And even if you backup, how often does that backup work.
I use a Mac, and every so often I’m reminded why I use a Mac. It gets out of my way and just works, so I don’t worry [...]

WordPress – It just works!

It’s not the Trini.  Sorry mate, I had to hijack your column for a post.
We just upgraded The Cheap Scottish Bastard back-end (that certainly sounds strange doesn’t it?) to the latest version of WordPress (2.8.4) from an older 2.7 version.  Unfortunately the automatic 2.7->2.8 upgrade process didn’t work.  The manual upgrade, while a bit labor [...]

“P”repaid Stamps

‘P’repaid stamps – 150 years in the making.