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Just to prove I’m still alive mainly, I made a little favicon for my site because I was sick of seeing it in my bookmarks toolbar with the boring default Firefox icon!
And here it is:
A ctrl+f5 clear cache refresh should get it for you if you can’t see it already..
The red circle indicates when I really got on top of my 68 RSS feeds in Google Reader. I’ve already dropped back to the usual levels of hardly reading anything.. It might be time for an RSS feed spring clean, instead of adding new content all the time.
So, if reading a bunch of RSS feeds is difficult to do, it’s even harder to post to my own blog – let alone upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 which was released quite some time ago now..
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In other news, I passed my driving test on Wednesday 11th February 2009. Just after 1:30pm, I started the test by correctly answering the ’show me / tell me’ questions. I drove with the examiner and it was less than 5 minutes before I bumped the kerb going round a corner and thought I’d failed the whole thing. Carried on regardless, what else was there to do?! And came out of it at the end with only 4 minor faults. One of those being the bump on the kerb and 3 others for trivial mistakes. So I am very pleased and have been out driving in my car pretty much every day since.
There is much in store for this site, including better integration with all the other sites I tend to spend most of my time on. Facebook, Flickr, Twitter etc.. But all in good time.
For now, good night. And check back soon to read about my first encounter with the police…
I know, how out of date is this post… LUGRadio finished ages ago, much to the dismay of fans. I have obviously neglected the blog as of late and meant to post something about this ages ago. But as a homage to the most brilliant of podcasts, I give you:
Jono Bacon drinking an Ubuntu beer...!
Before: what a mess…
It’s nowhere near as fun as you’d think. My back still aches from being under my desk for ages sorting out cables.. Still not amazingly tidy but it’s definitely an improvement. And the worst thing is, I’ve run out of power sockets. So I’ll have to start daisy chaining which isn’t a great idea. Hope the electrics in this house can cope… Probably better than my last house when I had all that and more running from just the one power socket there was in the room which must have been built when all people had to power was their bedside lamp.
After: oh look, some carpet!
Today I…
woke up,
went back to sleep,
woke up again,
got up,
had a shower,
made lunch,
walked to work,
worked,
walked home,
watched a bit of tv and…
Well, the latest K2 nightly build works nicely with WordPress 2.5 and the upgrade went smoothly! Don’t worry, I had plenty of backups just in case it all went Pete Tong. (speaking of Superstar DJs, I’m going to see Armin Van Buuren in Nottingham at the end of May! Get in!)
Must admit to loving the new WordPress, a lot. So much has changed and it’s all for the better.
I’ve only lost my “Asides” post list from the right-hand column there. Nevermind about that for now though, I didn’t use it all that much.
A new version of WordPress is available! Please update now.
And it looks very appealing too!
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!!
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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