Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
WordPress 2.3.1 is now available. 2.3.1 is a bug-fix and security release for the 2.3 series.
2.3.1 fixes over twenty bugs. Some of the notable fixes are:
Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than
their WordPress Address
Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
Link importer fixes
Get [...]
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Tags: Upgrades,Wordpress 
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
For a few years i have had an Early , V1, Pace 3000 sky plus box with a big disk MOD.Over the past few months this has become increasingly unreliable, locking up, not coming back after a cold starts etc etc.
Enter Ebay, 40 quid for a used pace 3100 box.
Now the fun starts, I then [...]
Posted in Satelite TV, Technology | No Comments »
Tags: SKy,software,storage 
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I had a lovley surprise this morning, 1600 bounced spam emails in my “selective catch all” mail box
I use the term selective, as it has a huge (3000+) blacklist, that and the RDNS connection filtering I run, keeps my normal spam, in the mail box, down to less than 10 a day, with some 3000 [...]
Posted in Computers, Geekdom, General, Rant, Technology | 1 Comment »
Tags: email,spam 
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Well that time has come to go an visit secondary prospective schools for my son to attend next year. Last night was the turn of my old school Crypt School, Gloucester. I left there in FEB 1986, having completely screwed my A-Level mocks. and I was surprised (and shocked) by what i found
some parts of [...]
Posted in General, Unbelievable | No Comments »
Tags: Crypt school,education,nostalgia,school 
Monday, October 8th, 2007
My wife let it slip she regularly reads my blog..
I Got into some serious trouble over this post, which i made from a PDA, in my hotel room, on the morning of our wedding
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Tags: blog 
Friday, October 5th, 2007
Currently sat on a first great?? (debatable) ??western train from paddington to swindon
Some of the carriages have been through a re-fit, and now have Laptop power, one socket for every two seats, well cool
so Add Laptop and 3G mobile phone, and we have 100+ Mph Blogging
Posted in Cars, Geekdom, Technology | 2 Comments »
Tags: 3G,Mobile,Trains 
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
At 0715 this morning, I crawl out of bed, drag my self to the bathroom and start sth shower (tank feed, via pump mixer tap job). After waking up the kids i retuen to the bathroom to a COLD shower ! DOH !!!!!!
On futher investigation, the HOT water was warm , to turn off the [...]
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Tags: ,busted,DIY,Water 
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Based on the information i found, and linked to here
I have Succesfully integrated TAGS and a TAGS cloud into my Themes
Pat myself on the back
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Tags: Tags,Upgrades,Wordpress 
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Following on the shocking revelation as to how much my toys were costing me to run
I spent satuday morning, moving data, re-writing backup scripts, and have managed to SQEEZE all my data onto the disks in the server, which has enabled me to shut down the extreemly power hungry FC storage array.
This has also left [...]
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Tags: computer,Power,storage