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May 20, 2013
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Category Archives: Site Changes
June 17, 2012
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Recent changes
I’ve made a few changes to the site, and thought I’d share them with you. WordPress 3.4 It’s probably of little surprise that I upgraded to WordPress 3.4 upon its release last week. Not that there are really any useful … Continue reading
April 4, 2012
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Re-building traffic
Back in October last year this site experienced a sudden drop in page views, and as yet I’m still not certain what caused it. Since then, traffic has remained around the 400 views per day mark, and although I had … Continue reading
March 5, 2012
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Less trackable sharing
There’s been a bit of a h00-hah on that there internets about the use of JavaScript beacons and third-party cookies on web pages which can be used to track users across sites. Theoretically this means that sites like Facebook, Twitter, … Continue reading
February 14, 2012
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Server upgrade
Up until now, I’ve been running Debian Lenny on this server. Lenny is now being retired, so I’ve upgraded it to Debian Squeeze. This also means that Apache, PHP, MySQL and other packages are all running on newer versions than … Continue reading
June 10, 2011
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Summary of changes this week
Rather than post about each change I’ve made to the site this week, I’ve rolled them all up for this one entry. First of all, I’ve enabled gzip compression on all pages using Apache’s mod_deflate (which was installed on the … Continue reading
June 19, 2010
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Closing comments on old entries
In the hope that it will reduce the current waves of comment spam that I’m receiving, I’ve turned off comments for all entries published prior to January 2009, plus a few published in 2009 that seem to be particular targets.
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April 9, 2010
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Changing the theme
I’ve had the plain red default MT4 theme for a couple of years now. So I’ve switched to the light blue variant of it. What do you think?
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March 23, 2010
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New toys!
I’ve made a few more changes to the site, the most obvious being the ‘Sign-in with Twitter’ link on the comments.
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February 28, 2010
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Sideblog working again
One of the things that had stopped working for some reason on my old host was the sideblog, which essentially lists my activity on other web sites such as Twitter. It’s now updating automatically again.
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