Posted in Blog, workfriendly on Oct 1st, 2008 Comments
Last night I switched to using the Disqus service for comments on this blog and I must say I’m pretty impressed so far.
The reason for the switch is that I’m just not staying on top of wordpress upgrades and tweaks and so ideally I’d like to replace my current setup with something much simpler, […]
Posted in General, Blog, workfriendly on Dec 21st, 2006 Comments
Apologies to anybody that got a 404-not-found on my last post. It seems that sticking the word ‘blog’ in the subject causes the post permalink to fail on my wordpress setup. No idea why (and no time to investigate at the moment!) - I’ve fixed the previous post by hacking the permalink directly.
(maybe it’s the […]
Posted in General, Blog, workfriendly, blogging on Nov 9th, 2006 Comments
At last! Now you can use your own domain name with the excellent wordpress.com service.
Actually this is pretty old news now - I almost missed this because I was on holiday and only just noticed it because Scoble has started using ’scobleizer.com’ in his permalinks.
Personally I think this is huge; recently a few people have […]
Posted in General, Blog, workfriendly, rss on Feb 1st, 2006 Comments
For the purpose of future discussions, I’d like to distinguish between stateful and stateless rss aggregation.
A stateless aggregator is one which just consumes and represents the current information in an rss feed (or set of rss feeds). It doesn’t remember items that were previously on an RSS feed, and so is effectively just rendering the […]
Posted in General, Semantic Web, Blog on Jul 22nd, 2005 Comments
Wrote this comment to somebody else’s blog post at work. Thought I’d cut-n-paste it here:
Tagging is tres-cool, however I’m not sure about this microformat - there are a couple of warts IMO:
Not a biggie, but at first glance the format looks like you’re tagging the target of the link (at least to me). Reading the […]
Doh! Logged in to find that a load of files in my wordpress installation had been deleted. Luckily I’ve re-installed wordpress before so it was a simple process.
Not exactly sure how the files were deleted this time - last time I did the install I made sure that they were all only user-writable. hmmm…
