By Nic | January 17, 2006
It may not look any different on the surface, and that’s the beauty of it. This site has been upgraded to Wordpress 2.0. Yes, I know I took my damn time, but now I’m loving it, dearly.
It’s neat, clean, slick, full of AJAX goodness, modern, but not lacking excellent support for the old (all my [...]
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By Nic | November 18, 2005
I have introduced some sort of ‘image gallery’ management to this site - it’s powered by Gallery 2 and tied into wordpress with the help of Wordpress Gallery2. I’ve replaced some of the images on the site with the exact same pictures, except managed under Gallery 2. See the Geography Field Trip, for example - [...]
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By Nic | October 10, 2005
So, two bloggers have been jailed under charges from the ‘Sedition Act’, as widely reported by the media. Of course, this is great blog fodder and I’m definitely going to write something about it.
I’m not going to write a commentary on who is right or wrong here, or if the charged are actually innocent. It’s [...]
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By Nic | September 30, 2005
Well, I know I’m busy studying for exams (next week!) and all, but what the heck. I’m too happy.
I got my wordpress.com invite! w00t!
So, now, the dilemma: should i use it for our new humour site, or for something else?
Well, for one, it’s everything I’ll ever need for the new site, except the lack of [...]
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By Nic | September 9, 2005
Aye, I’m cheap, and I want an iPod Nano so bad I’ve decided to take a break from thinking about starting my revision for the exams to write this. What for? Well, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) is having a contest that lets someone win a 2GB Nano. Of course I’d prefer a 4GB one, [...]
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Since everyone had been complaining so much about the ShoutBox screwing up, I succumbed and sent the author of the Wordspew ShoutBox plugin an e-mail, asking him for help.
I was pleasantly surprised when I received a reply detailing the solution so quickly - it was sent under 24 hours. He diagnosed the problem as a [...]
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I was looking through my site’s logs, and I came across one search bot I’ve never seen before. The user-agent string identified it as a bot originating from ‘topicblogs.com’.
Naturally, I did some research on this mysterious new blog-crawler. I’ll summarise what little bits I’ve found below.
Topicblogs.com has a spartan minimalist design which carries text notifying [...]
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