A day or so ago I was saying the new ice skating site was ‘up’ but required a lot of work before it was really ‘ready’ for mass use. One of the things we needed really badly was a logo and ‘unified theme’ and my graphics skills are tragic to say the least. So in … More Charity is twice blessed.
Was considering making up yet another blog called something like ‘The Skater & her Dad’ and load stuff onto and into it that is related to figure skating… and *more* importantly the youngest daughters development as a skater (if any) and of course pictures of her!! 🙂 I’ll not be creating a link to it … More The Skater & her Dad?
I like the Askimet plugin for WordPress (and other) blogs. So far in the current incarnation of the Opinion Australia blog, it’s intercepted 13,537 spam posts since it was installed. Comment spam is a real problem for all blogs chewing up both bandwidth and time. Askimet is pretty good at doing its job.
Been mulling over whether to create a new ‘temporary’ site for some of us to visit to make comments… everyone except Vicky Pollard of course. I can do without another visit from her!! Ewww…. <snip> Edit: Changed my mind… what I’ll do is create a ‘private’ subdomain accessible from here via a link, for invited … More Considerations…
Slight snag. The PDA wireless modem is refusing to connect to the telco WAP… which makes it a bit of a bugger trying to do *anything* online. Since we’ve had a lot of thunderstorms lately I’m giving the telco the benefit of the doubt and accept the slight possibility there might just be a problem … More Problems?
Well I’ve told you I’m blogging using what is really a pretty good piece of kit, but it’s even more versatile than I’d realised with some *really* nice plug-ins that extend and enhance it’s versatility! Do I sound impressed?? I hope so because I still am! 🙂 Trouble is same as always, for all the … More So.. what's new?
Still using the new software… working fine… does as much as I need and more! In fact it’s far easier to use that the entry page for the software itself as the wordprocessing functions are far more extensive. Of course some of them may not work… so trying them out would be ‘a good thing’. … More End of an era?
I was reading an article on http://www.news.com today written by Bob Hart who is a staff writer for the Herald Sun. The article described his attempts to live without the accoutrement’s of the hi-tech world to which he’d become accustomed. I’ve never met Bob, nor am I ever likely to, we live in different worlds. … More Life without hi-tech?
Yet again the US server hosting the blog failed… and this time the Data Centre took *two days* to repair/replace it which is ridiculous in anyone’s terms!!! All these high end servers are constructed with a RAID array, i.e. multiple hard discs, to provide multiple ‘fail-safe’ redundancy so that if one should fail, or if … More We're back: Server Outage!!
The first decent camera I had was bought from Dixon’s in the UK some 20+ years ago. I forget the make, but it was a pretty good SLR that came with a great little lens. The pictures I took are still clear and bright… and obviously it used 35 mm film. It got damaged a … More A lens on the world.
The Eclectic Interweb 