I try to give credit to my sources in this blog, when I can remember where I found something. In the last day of the new year In the post on IT Conversations I made a slip, I wrote Kay Johansen where it should have been Kay Pentecost. Sorry Kays...

Luckily, blogs are made from bytes, not concrete. I use rublog to publish my blog. It is very basic, and publishes everything from text files. So I can easily correct slip-ups like this, by correcting the blog entry and after saving the text file, change the date back to the original date. Charles Vermeulen recently told me he had bought a program for this purpose. You don't have to buy software to get this feature. Unix has the

touch

command which allows you to change dates. Linux distributions have it, and Mac OS/X probably as well. Under the other desktop operating system, it is included in cygwin, which provides the familiar and powerful unix command line for the OS that hasn't improved its' command line since DOS 1.0 .

touch works like this:

touch -d 20041231 ITConversations.html

Use -d for changing the date, and then the year, month and day and the filename after the space. Quite simple.

To prevent slip-ups with links, I have made a small program that automatically inserts hyperlinks to people I quote regularly. That way, I only have to correct mistakes once...