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Since running this blog on Media Temple’s grid-server, I was spoiled by the minimal effort required to backup my web stuff online thanks to the Data Backup utility available through the grid-server admin panel. Unfortunately, this utility was pulled over a month ago and I always want a backup to revert to in case an upgrade of WordPress or some other installation goes wrong. In this post I outline how to automate backups using rsync and cron.

I’ve gotten a couple of emails from some readers asking how I went about displaying some of my latest flickr photos on my sidebar. So for any Wordpress bloggers out there looking to customize your current Wordpress theme to include your flickr thumbnails, read on!

Before I knew plug-ins existed that allowed you to implement RSS feeds into Wordpress, I found a solution for this by putting my C++ programming knowledge to use and hardcoded php into my themes. I still use it and have not resorted to using a plug-in since my solution still works great…