Just a note that I have added the excellent Yet Another Related Posts Plugin to this blog.
This means that on each page, if there are any related posts you should get a nice list of links underneath. (In addition to the “On This Day” info).
If you find this really annoying, please let me know and I will turn it off. (Or I could just turn the “On This Day” plugin off, instead of having them both on). But I just thought it would be an interesting addition to the blog!
Just a bit of site news: I have removed the “DJ Stuff” section of this website, because it was basically useless and hadn’t been updated in ages. I don’t really do DJing any more, so it was a bit useless to have the section up on the website.
In other news, I’ve been having a few problems since upgrading to Ubuntu 8. I think it might be to do with the Flash plugin, but I don’t seem to be able to view YouTube videos anymore. Not only that, but I seem to be having problems accessing certain pages on Facebook (i.e., the Inbox and Compose Message). This might be a problem with Firefox Beta 4 – I had more success with Opera, but it wasn’t 100%.
Still, the Flash plugin on Linux has always been the source of problems – I’ll look into it soon and I’m sure it will be a matter of installing the “official” Adobe Flash plugin for Linux.
I’ve added caching to this blog using the excellent WP-Super-Cache plugin for WordPress, after reading yesterday’s blog post by Jeff Atwood.
I don’t know whether it will make much difference in terms of what you actually notice, but it will at least help out in the extremely unlikely event that this site gets a large number of hits. Anyway, as usual – any problems, let me know!
I’ve also added a stats plugin for WordPress, so I’ll be able to see how people are reaching this blog and what they’re reading. Admittedly I could have known that already by looking at the awstats output provided by my web server, but that’s just too much effort! :p
I’ve decided that the time has come for me to stop pretending that I’m any good at web design, and actually bite the bullet and use somebody else’s design skills for once.
Fortunately for me, using WordPress there are literally hundreds of available templates you can use for free.
I’ve chosen one which I like, I think it looks good, but I may change it from time to time!
Let me know if you have any problems.
I’ve just upgraded to WordPress version 2.3. Unfortunately this has meant the site being down for a short while (an hour or so) — for some reason, my FTP server was timing out certain connections, meaning that not all of the files uploaded correctly.
I’ve resolved the issue now, and everything appears to be working correctly!
WordPress 2.3 looks pretty good – you can view the release notes here. If you’re running a WordPress blog, upgrading is recommended :-)
I’ve used Yahoo! Photos to store pictures for a while now. Any photos taken on our camera would get uploaded there. Unfortunately, Yahoo! Photos is closing. Which means that I haven’t uploaded any pictures there recently… I have been uploading photos to Facebook, but the problem with Facebook is that you can’t download the original images (I don’t think you can get at the originals even if you uploaded the images in the first place). Also, I want to give people access to the albums who aren’t on Facebook.
Anyway, Yahoo! also runs Flickr, another photo-sharing website, and they’ve also provided a photo migration service from Yahoo! Photos. So, I’ve decided to migrate all my albums in Yahoo! over to Flickr, and I will let you know once that’s all complete, and give the URL to access my photos.
One good thing about Flickr is that I believe there’s a Facebook application which integrates it with Flickr… that would be useful :-)
I’ve decided to start up a new blog. Well, technically it’s an old blog, but it’s not really been used much up until now: Phill’s J2EE Blog. Because I do J2EE for a living, and I do occasionally want to make posts about it, I thought it would be a good idea to start up a new blog about it rather than posting the stuff here.
So, if you’re interested in any of that, head on over there and have a look. Otherwise, don’t… it’s not my lookout!
The observant among you may notice that my site now has a new design (well, you will have if you’re not looking at this site through some kind of blog feed reader).
I don’t really know whether it’s an improvement on the old one, I just did it for two reasons: (1) fixed-width layouts are really annoying when you’re looking at the site on a widescreen monitor (all that wasted screen real estate), and (2) I just got bored of the old one.
One thing you might notice is that I now have an advertising link at the bottom of the menu bar on the right. It’s probably so unobtrusive as to have no effect, but I might experiment a bit with positioning. The reason I stuck it there was because this site ain’t paying for itself, and it would be nice to recoup some of the money if possible. It probably isn’t, but still. The adverts are supposed to be context sensitive… the one there when I last looked was for UK Demolition Contractors. I thought perhaps that was picking up on my previous references to Torchwood (Torchwood Scripts, remember?) – all they do is pretty much destroy things, right? Relationships, property, Chris Chibnall’s writing…
Aaaaanyway. That’s all for now folks. Except the usual “The Weekend” update sometime tomorrow. Or whenever I feel like it…
There’s been an exploit going round recently (well, actually, for quite a while) which involves websites running cPanel (I think). A couple of weeks ago, someone managed to hack into this site and append some <SCRIPT> tags to the bottom of each index.php, the purpose of which was to download a virus to the unsuspecting victim’s computer.
In other words, if you’ve visited this site using an unpatched version of Internet Explorer during the past couple of weeks you may be infected with a virus. I recommend obtaining a good anti-virus scanner and doing a full scan.
The reason I haven’t noticed is because I don’t use Internet Explorer – I think most other browsers / operating systems are not vulnerable to this exploit.
Apologies to the inconvenience this may have caused you… it’s not my fault, but still. If you notice anything like this happening again please let me know straight away!
I’ve just found a rather nifty plugin for WordPress. It basically inserts an “on this day…” item at the bottom of my posts (on each post page, not on the main page – if you’re looking at the main page, you’ll need to click on the title of the post before you can see it). Incidentally, I found it through Simon’s Blog – I saw it there, thought “that looks cool!” and downloaded it :-)
Oh, the fun… anyway, that’s all from me for today. Three posts in one day, it must be some kind of record in recent times!
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