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 [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Site News category.
Married Life. Coming Soon.
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 [...]
WordPress 2.6.2
Another quick heads up peeps. WordPress 2.6.2 is out and you should update ASAP – especially if you allow registrations on your blog. See the WordPress Dev Blog for details, but in short the new update fixes the SQL Column Truncation vulnerability and the weakness of mt_rand(). Apparently other PHP apps are vulnerable too – [...]
WordPress.org 2.6.1
Quick Note: WordPress 2.6.1 is out. If you are running an older version, especially if you haven’t even 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. Things to remember when upgrading: deactivate your plugins first, not all [...]
WordPress 2.6 & Spam Karma 2
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 [...]
New Plugin – IntenseDebate
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 [...]