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As a fan of threaded comments, I decided to try out a new plugin - IntenseDebate.  This plugin allows for threaded comments, reply by email, commenter profiles and reputation points (though I may need to be sold on the value of this last one).  As with all WordPress plugins, the install is a matter of unzipping the file to your plugin folder and then activating it in the plugin section of the dashboard.

The plugin supports WordPress (duh!), Blogger, TypePad and Tmblr with more to come.

UPDATE - I have disabled the plugin.  Indexing the comments was taking too long, Commentluv and KeywordLuv were inactive and it was too much trouble.  This is not to say that there is anything wrong with the plugin - if I had started with IntenseDebate from the beginning, there would not have been any issues, but the wait was just too great.  Don’t let me put you off it - if I were to start a second blog, I would definitely install it.

You may have noticed that for the past 2 days this site has been parked.  Thankfully, no one took the name while it was down.  To avoid unnecessary panic, here’s what happened:

On the 14th, the domain registration expired and should have been renewed - I didn’t receive a mail notification and so it went unnoticed.  It went unnoticed because at the same time, two other things happened - there were routing problems at my host (Brinkster) and my laptop went kaput.  So I was entirely off the net.

Thanks to Dominic for alerting me via Facebook and thanks to Justin at Brinkster for sorting things out - while I signed up for another two years he spotted that for some reason the name servers had been removed from the account.
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Those of you who can see me on Facebook will be aware that I changed my status some time ago to “engaged”.  I have gone from saying “no way, not ever” to “let’s set a date”.  I am nothing, if not inconsistent.  So yeah, I’m getting married.

Because we are both practical people (and a variety of other reasons) this is going to be an extremely quick and simple wedding.  We have booked a local registrar’s office for next May, there will be space for us and 4 guests and the whole thing takes minutes apparently.  For anyone reading this and looking to get married and not wanting to go through the hassle of the full ceremony and wondering who will sit where can do what I did.

It really is very simple and pretty damn low cost.  In fact, I don’t think there is a cheaper option which still ends up with you being legally married.  Obviously, this comes with a massive caveat: make sure your intended is happy doing this.  Proudly saying you have organised a quick, simple and cheap wedding when s/he would like the full monty does not mean that you will be off to a good start….  Anyway, do this:
Continue reading ‘Married Life. Coming Soon.’ »

Another quick heads up peeps.  WordPress 2.6.2 is out and you should update ASAP - especially if you

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allow registrations on your blog.
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Quick Note: WordPress 2.6.1 is out.  If you are running an older version, especially if you haven’t even

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gone to 2.6.0 yet, you should upgrade - you’re missing out on new functionality and you may be at risk of having your site taken over.
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It’s been a while since I wrote anything here, but here are two important announcements for anyone running the .org version of Wordpress.

Firstly, WordPress 2.6 is now out.  There are, as usual, lots of new things in this release and they ae all listed here.  One thing I noticed is that I have had to add to my .htaccess file because all my previous URLs stopped working.  For example, the URL to this post is http://www.lostaddress.org/2008/07/17/wordpress-26-spam-karma-2/ and under the previous release of WP, the URL would have been http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2008/07/17/wordpress-26-spam-karma-2/ - spot the difference?  If you were using a similar method, make sure you check your links!  So download it, install it and check out the changes (and fix things where necessary).
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