and I wish more people knew about it! I don’t know how many times I’ve been invited to those ridiculousgroups where some bumbling fool has lost or had their mobile stolen or dropped it down the toilet and so requires everyone’s phone numbers. If you ever want to have a drunken laugh prank calling people at 4am, go on Facebook search for “phone numbers” and narrow the search to Groups only. Displaying 1 - 10 out of over 500 group results for: phone numbers Yes, people actually post their supposedly private phone numbers on publicly available web pages?! Dial 141 followed by a random phone number and tell whoever picks up they’re an idiot for posting their number on Facebook.
Years ago, you’d need to purchase an odd looking gadget to backup the contents of your sim card. These days, phones are smart, they can connect to the Internet and back themselves up! But I appreciate not everyone is going to bother with backing up.
So if everyone used the built-in mobile phonebook feature of Facebook, put their mobile numbers on their profile and restricted that information to Friends Only (assuming, of course, people don’t actually friend randoms) then the world social network would be a much better place.
Wow. One of my favourite books, “Blood, Sweat And Tea” by one of my favourite bloggers, Paramedic Tom Reynolds has been adapted into a play for BBC Radio 4 starring one of my favourite actors, Martin Freeman /and/ Liz White (her off of Life on Mars if you didn’t know). I can’t wait! Tune in this Friday at 9pm or catch it on Listen Again.
p.s. I posted this from inside Flickr. There’s a “Blog this” button. Quite clever but I’ll have to add links and stuff afterwards, let’s see how it turns out.
If you’re using K2, as I am - don’t upgrade to WordPress 2.5 just yet. It breaks because K2 doesn’t use WordPress widgets, in favour of it’s own set of widgets. It’s a good thing I backed everything up this time!
The upgrade causes this error…
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget()
when you try to display the admin dashboard. I googled a bit and found a post which kind of fixed the problem but not quite. The altered code appeared at the top of every page. After jumping in the #wordpress IRC channel to see what was what, I was advised to restore the backup and wait. So that’s what I’ve done and what I will do.
UPDATE
Well I waited and got impatient because WordPress 2.5 just looks that good! And it is!! I upgraded my K2 to the latest nightly version and then upgraded WordPress, it worked fine. Read about it here.
In other news…
I’m packing my bags to head home for a week. My train is at 1pm (BST) Tuesday and if you like, you can track the progress of my journey via bliin.com - zoom to Norwich and look for the green circle moving south! It’ll be updated in real-time using the GPS in my phone. I have a draft post about bliin which I’ll finish off and publish sometime when I’m back home.
Source: WikipediaI am writing this entry to test Zemanta - it’s an extension for WordPress and other blogging platforms which automagically suggests images (from Flickr) and links to related articles on whatever you’re writing about. Seems like pretty clever stuff to me. It’s a very simple install, no messing about with WordPress plugin installs, it’s just a Firefox extension.. So after writing 300 characters it goes and looks for suggestions or you can force it to look for suggestions. At the bottom it comes up with suggested links and tags, when I click “Apply All” it added links to Zemanta and WordPress above all by itself. That’s pretty neat. It has found some related articles, such as the one on Techcrunch from which I found Zemanta in the first place. Clicking it makes that “Related articles” box down there appear. And now let’s add an image. There it is over on the right, simple! This post is officially Zemified!!
Been working full time these past couple of weeks, got a few posts in the pipeline though. This blog isn’t dead yet! For some reason the visual editor on my WordPress install decided to not work and I couldn’t be bothered with fixing it but it’s working again now.
In other news, Chris Moyles, (self-proclaimed) saviour of Radio 1, is off on holiday for two weeks. I’m not a huge fan of Scott Mills either, so does anyone have any morning radio suggestions?
Gotta love WordPress… With the K2 theme I’ve mentioned previously, you can have a category known as “Asides” for just posting random short entries which don’t require a whole post of their own - you can see mine over on the right of the page, I’ve renamed the category to “By The Way”.
However, what’s the point if these Asides still appear in the RSS feed? I figured the whole point is they’re out of the way, tucked over on the right there… Luckily, WordPress is very easy to customise and it was simply a case of popping some code in a file to remove Aside entries from the feed which I found after a quick bit of googling.
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