Posts Tagged ‘ Technical stuff ’

So, here is the tube map showing progress to date, you may have to zoom out to catch the extremes, depending on the size of your screen: **UPDATE** I’ve removed the image as it seems to be slowing the blog down and crashing folks computers, you can still view The Full Screen Map over...
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You should see the floor of my flat – tis littered with no end of exciting possibilities. I could of course take a snap and show you but then you’d see the truth, which involves an awful lot of boxes, wrapping and all those other things that I haven’t quite got round to putting...
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This post is surely asking for trouble but here goes. A recent plugin – Firestats – has opened my eyes to the wonders of google searches and more specifically the search terms that lead visitors to this site. Some are quite painful: Iliac crest pain in back and hip but others are darn right...
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So my new site has launched and I have to say I am seriously impressed with wordpress. Movable type used to leave me on the verge of a nervous breakdown every time I attempted a significant update or even a minor design tweak. With wordpress I have been able to do a complete server...
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I am slightly concerned about two new obsessions that seem to be gaining a foothold. Firstly you may have noticed that a whole load of ultrarunners have suddenly gatecrashed my blogroll and therefore my regular reading list. Yesterday my new book arrived, Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes, and I stayed up til 3am to...
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What’s happened to Technorati lately? I use it to keep track of recent posts in all my favourite blogs but it is just not playing fair anymore. It’s telling me that a lot of my fellow bloggers haven’t been active in over 100 days when I know for a fact that they’ve been at...
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At last I have found a plugin to deal with the mountains of spam winging its way to this blog. The latest update of Movable Type helped but spammers like TramadoL1234 kept getting through the spam filter. Repeatedly. Thankfully I was alerted to the cure all by That Canadian Girl. The panacea comes in...
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It’s great knowing that folk are actually interested in reading the random scribblings that make up your blog but I find that it comes with a worrying sense of responsibility. All of a sudden I feel like I am writing for an audience and have to consider what it is “they” want to read....
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I couldn’t wait any longer, I had to find out what all the hype surrounding YouTube is about. That canadian girl started me off with a link to a haunting film about a giant little girl puppet. While I was there I came across my fave advert – the Tango/Bravia spoof: MQBQb5KaZyU I only...
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I knew I should not have attempted this upgrade. I made the same mistake last year and it resulted in approximately 27 hours of high anxiety while I desperately scrabbled around every user forum trying to find an answer to “how the hell am I going to get my blog back?!”. Well at least...
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