hackbash

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.6.2 – think everything’s fine but please let me know if you spot anything broken. Also added plugin that can email you when someone adds a comment after yours – hope it’s useful.

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Hmmm. I’ve just updated our software to WordPress 2.5. Despite my recent form and the terrifying detailed upgrade instructions, it appears to have worked. At least, I’d written that before trying to upload this screenshot which, predictably, broke. There’s a fix, but I seem to be channelling Alannis Morisette at the moment. Yesterday, someone sent [...]

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I’m hurt. I’ve been trying very hard not to just slag off the BBC lately, and a friend pointed out this evening that he kind of missed it. Well, if you think I’m going to say something sarcastic about under-bonnet forecourt-proximity-detecting depreciation devices you’ll be sorely disappointed. Instead, a mini rant about Microsoft. Regular readers [...]

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Right. Regular visitors will notice that Hackbash has been in varying states of disrepair since Monday. It’s my fault – sorry and all – but don’t say I didn’t warn you. Anyway, we’re now situated at new web hosts, who have answered and solved all my emails for help. They’re dirt-cheap and I’m very grateful, [...]

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Recent experience suggests that I’ve lost my IT mojo: that silicon and I are no longer on speaking terms. And yet, I persist in fooling around with forces more powerful than I can imagine. First it was the broadband upgrade, then a tedious episode over Christmas that started out as an attempt to breathe new [...]

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I’m not happy. I worked for too many years in IT, and if there’s one lesson that you’d think I would have learned from my time there it’s that faster is not always better. This would, on early evidence, seem to apply to my internet connection, which was upgraded about a week ago from a [...]

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