Cor Blimey Guv
Would you Adam and Eve it, we’re at number 2 in the BritBlog top 50. Cor blimey! Love a duck!
WordPress 2.0
It’s a windy night in Portsmouth and I can’t sleep, so I’ll be updating the blog to WordPress 2.0 during the next few hours. If the theme changes, or if things break, that’s expected during the upgrade process.
WordPress.com Blog Hosting Opens
After a long period of growth by invitation only WordPress.com has today thrown open the doors for public consumption. WordPress.com (naturally) runs on the popular WordPress personal publishing system (that this website uses), so I can heartily recommend it. Get your free, hosted WordPress ‘blog today.
AutoMeta: Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for WordPress
This plugin will automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post.
Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress
This is the first beta release of a WordPress plugin that can add Google Analytics to your website without you needing to code one single set of <>’s.
MostWanted 0.1.8
I’ve spoken with two new users of my MostWanted plugin during the last week, both of whom were keen on using the fixstats feature, which I’d written, but which I’d never actually linked-in to he code. So here’s a new version of MostWanted the at includes the capability to fix the stats which StatTraq doesn’t …
Akismet – Comment Spam Killer
This website – like any website that allows readers to submit comments – receives comment-spam, usually advertising medicines, gambling, or other vices. I’ve been trialling a new anti-comment-spam plugin since mid September. It’s called Kismet, it’s from Automattic, (hence Akismet for short) and it’s working very well.
MostWanted 0.1.6
Two small updates to the MostWanted plugin, rolled into one release.
WordPress Haiku
Like a chosen few before me, I have become the posessor of a WordPress.com golden ticket; a rather rare invitation to join wordpress.com and start a free ‘blog, on what is one of the most sought-after domains on the net. It appears that I am at liberty to pass this ticket on to one lucky …
Ta Murky
A special trans-global thanks to Murky who pinged me from NZ a few moments ago after noticing that this site was spitting out SQL errors (instead of gracefully presenting pages full of useful content). The outage was caused by a large file that was taking up the temporary space that our content management database needs …
Spammed by MyNiceMailAt .com
Hopefully I just spoiled a spammer’s whole week. How? I bought the domain that he’s trying to promote (MyNiceMailAt.com) before he did.
WordPress Multiple Authors Plugin
Yesterday I began to realize that WordPress (the software that manages the content you are reading now) might not be able to do something we need on this site: the capability to record and communicate that several people have authored an article.
MostWanted 0.1.4
I’ve just made a small update to the MostWanted plugin that solves an output validity issue.
Latest Referral Spam Domains
Referral and Comment spam continues unabated, with several new domains this week, and several new machines doing the spamming. Here I present two regularly updated URl’s that list the domains and ip addresses of the machines that are hitting me, and the two scripts that generate them.
WordPress with Page Cacheing
A small improvement to this site – page cacheing using WP-Cache-2.
Better Comments
I’m just trying out Brian’s Threaded Comments plugin which will make articles that generate a lot of response more like a forum than a guge list. Apologies if I’ve broken enything until it’s properly inserted .
Turbocharging StatTraq
If you use StatTraq and WordPress, or if you use any kind of open-source statistics package on your website, you may benefit from this. Whilst reading around the intricacies of MySQL yesterday I discovered something so blindingly obvious that I think there must be a conspiracy to not talk about it.
Impending Server Repair
The server that runs this site has endured a minor injury to it’s long term storage (one of the disks, or the RAID card that the disks connect to, are kaput) – fortunately we have backups and a fairly resilient machine, so it’s serving the pages from it’s RAM cache at the moment. The bottom …
Extending StatTraq and Spam Control
I spent a while chatting with StatTraq author Randy Peterman over the last few days, we’re both interested in how to remove (or hide) referral spam from site usage statistics in order that they may be a realistic and meaningful reflection of actual human visitors.
Under ReConstruction
Following a disk failure last night in the DSG, I’ve lost approximately 48 hours of blog entries; so the entry titled “Wedding”, where I thanked lots of people for all their lovelyness during our wedding last week has gone the way of the Dodo.