Savannah W-ITS

Worth a look – note that the tool at gapminder.org is available using free data sets.  A few features (view the 2 minute demo):

view data over time
zoom
view details
each bubble is a country
each color is a region

There are a number of additional resources & videos on the site – worth some exploring.

So, what does [...]

VirtualBox Security Tools – testing or installing Live CD images as virtual machines
I noted that this seems to be a popular approach for VMWare images and decided to try a few tools out using VirtualBox.   As with any such ’security solution’ you should carefully evaluate the tools that you allow (or the OS builds that you [...]

Moving your Wordpress site to a new URI?  If so, you will need to update the database entries that are specific to your new URI.  Some solutions to making global data changes:
Solution A – pre-import data massage

export the SQL data from the current site
make changes via a ’stream editor’ like ’sed’ (replace all instances of [...]

I have not found a simple way to batch import  image files into Worpdress – I have a few thousand images myself so finding a ‘good solution’ would be welcome.  
The out-of-the box Wordpress image-import solution does allow for ‘batch’ import of images via the Flash uploader; there is a limit to the [...]