The Ultra-simple WordPress Upgrade Guide for Tech Uber-dummies

This is a post devoted to WordPress bloggers for whom CSS and PHP might as well be insecticides or government department acronyms. If you’re ‘uninformed’, wilfully ignorant, error-prone or phobic about technical aspects of blogging software, I’m lookin’ at you, kid. Me? I’m a technical Inspector Clouseau. Can I be rude and for the sake of simplicity lump us all into the basic category of tech uber-dummies?

If you can face the ignominy of classifying yourself thus, you will also be able to admit to an aversion to apparently simple tasks like upgrading to the newest version of WordPress – the very idea will probably fill you with terror. Well, this post might be your path to redemption, or at least, the simplest, most over-explained uber-dummies’ guide to upgrading WordPress on the web… Continue reading The Ultra-simple WordPress Upgrade Guide for Tech Uber-dummies

On Rudd’s Speech Of Apology – A Parting Word To The Naysayers

I address this post to the following:

  • To weak pretenders like Brendan Nelson who was forced through overwhelming political pressure to take a bipartisan stand on apologising to aboriginal people for the wrongs of the past perpetrated by past parliaments of this land and its non-indigenous majority
  • To fuckwits like Wilson Tuckey, who absented himself from Parliament for today’s speech of apology
  • To fossils like John Howard who held up cultural and social progress in this country for the long, wasted years of opportunity of his time in office
  • To the mean-spirited, simplistic and emotionally retarded minority who are blind to the symbolic importance of a formal apology to the indigenous peoples of this country and who protest indignantly that they weren’t responsible for the actions of previous generations (talk about missing the point!)
  • To the writer of the bitter, skewed and ignorant statement entitled Australian Apology To The Aboriginal Population and all the sheep who circulated this piece of shit in email form or whose thinking is trapped within its parameters
  • To anyone else not covered above who did not support Rudd’s formal apology

The reaction of the indigenous people to the Apology justifies every word.

If you do not understand why saying sorry was vital both to the aboriginal people and our society and Rudd’s speech a political and social landmark in Australian history, it doesn’t matter. Your views on this issue are irrelevant.

To the future.

Ben Cousins: Child of the Nanny State

So, Ben Cousins finally faces the press…and firmly establishes himself as a true child of the nanny state.

“Deep down I don’t think I really had a choice,” bleated Cuz. “From a medical point of view, drug addiction is an illness. It is a very hard thing for people who have not experienced it to get their head around.”

VERY hard, Benny – cos it’s utter bullshit. Continue reading Ben Cousins: Child of the Nanny State

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