Result!
VeriSign to Shut Down Site Finder. Common sense prevails for a change. At least for now.
Category Archives: Geek Stuff
WordPress Release Candidate
Cool! The next version of WordPress is almost here! 0.72 Release Candidate 1 is now available from the usual place.
Speed Up
With any luck, I have just managed to speed up the time it takes to generate my blog page. It should now be almost three times faster than before. I managed to narrow it down to the ‘posts_nav_link()’ function which gave the ‘older posts’/’newer posts’ links at the top and bottom of the page. These were taking as long to execute as the main blog loop (in fact they run almost the same database query). So for now they have been removed, which means you must use the archives, calendar, or categories links to navigate to the older posts.
Network Down
I couldn’t post here last night, as my NTL broadband connection stopped working around 10:30 in the evening, and still hadn’t come back on this morning. 🙁
Upgraded At Last
Well, I finally did it. Journalized is now running on WordPress! I took a long time about it. Mainly because of my b2 specific hacks I didn’t wish to lose. I have them all in WordPress now. Yes, all of them. And no, they are not all in the official code yet.
I feel like perhaps I can move on now. Start catching up with things which have lagged behind (like about 10 book reviews!).
Wowee!
I have to brag about this! If you do a google search for mike this site comes out at number 14 of about 33 million. That’s pretty good ego surfing 🙂
Of course matt at number 7 would know all about that!
Update: I’m number one now!
Spreading a Little Cheer
A while ago I joined a blogshares spin off called shareblogs. In which Discovering new sites, networking with other bloggers, and having a little fun giving and receiving gifts are also part of the enjoyment.
. So, after regularly receiving gifts of shares from various members and after I finally realised that I should be giving gifts of shares to people, I decided to do just that. I started with all my fellow shareblogs members, and then chose the then ten newest players to give to. I have had some nice emails back from people, in cluding one from Tanya Parker who mentions me at the end of this post.
Awesome Mods!
I like some of these case mods in this story over at Wired.
“PCs are a marvel of engineering on the inside. The shell of a garden-variety desktop machine, on the other hand, is as dull as a command prompt. Users longing for a box whose beauty is more than CPU-deep have invented a new form of self-expression: casemodding – altering a PC’s exterior to make it as distinctive as its owner.”
