The auto-upgrade feature of Wordpress can stall on Cloud hosting. Here’s how to quickly and easily fix it to save time and effort.

It’s been an interesting few months. After trying out a number of multi-computer synchronisation tools (like SugarSync, DropBox, etc) and settling on the Live Mesh beta, it’s time to rethink the approach because there still appear to be basic bugs with even Live Mesh that lead to uncertainty in the consistency of the synchronised files.

I was talking to a friend yesterday about this very topic – he asked me what it was – and then I read a post on ZDnet that I thought was going to tell me the answer. Here’s the post: What’s Cloud Computing and What’s Not? However, the post just told me there was a lot of debate about the issue and that a task force was working towards a definitive definition. Not much use, so I thought I would add to the corpus of articles and definitions by publishing my (Emissary’s) definition of Cloud Computing.

This is a quick “how to” post if you experience the above error when installing Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007.

Everything was going well until Syncplicity told me that I had exceeded my storage quota. This was strange because I only had 1.6Gb of files to sync and I had a 2Gb account. The problem lay in the way Syncplicity handled conflicts, and here’s how I dealt with it.