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A cautionary tale for those who maintain Drupal websites and have big mouse-clicking fingers (like me).

Recently when applying a security release (6.19 to 6.20) to a production site, I came across a situation where replacing the core Drupal files at the root of the site and running update.php silently ‘failed’. Try as I might I could not get the site to accept that the core files had been overwritten and where now version 6.20. Google for once was of no use.  read more »

My little blue Aspire One has been in the menders - a battery problem cured by a Bios upgrade apparently - or so the nice people at John Lewis said. As I don't use a netbook that often, it was not too inconvenient to be without for two weeks. Or rather it would not have been had not my invite to the private alpha of Jolicloud OS not come through.  read more »