June 29, 2012
by Neil T
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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was trying out the new official Facebook plugin for WordPress, although at the time I couldn’t get it to work. Facebook have since issued an update to the plugin which now … Continue reading
June 17, 2012
by Neil T
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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 30, 2012
by Neil T
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Earlier this month I posted about my attempts at boosting traffic to this blog using various technical interventions, and so far, when combined with a couple of popular posts (my guide to improving iPhone battery life and cloud storage service … Continue reading
April 4, 2012
by Neil T
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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
October 12, 2011
by Neil T
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Almost exactly two years ago, I uninstalled RealPlayer as an experiment to see if I still actually needed it. About 6 months later, I found that I didn’t – I didn’t encounter any problems with content not playing. Now comes … Continue reading
June 21, 2011
by Neil T
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When you’ve been blogging for almost 10 years, you end up linking to a lot of things; apparently, my blog posts and your comments add up to over 10,000 links. I know this because I installed the Broken Link Checker … Continue reading
January 29, 2008
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I’ve fixed a long-standing template bug on the home page that came about as a result of me updating the OnThisDay plugin in the summer.
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July 1, 2007
by Neil T
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It looks like some of the spam bots out there are now taking the Comment Challenge plugin into account, as I’ve had some automated spam where the extra question has been answered correctly.
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July 22, 2006
by Neil T
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Along with the upgrade to MT 3.31, I also installed Jay Allen’s Comment Challenge plugin. It’s a very simple, and at least for the time being, very effective anti-spam plugin for Movable Type, that adds an extra compulsory field to the comment form.
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February 17, 2006
by Neil T
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Recently Microsoft launched Windows Genuine Advantage, a tool that prevented the installation of various Windows add-ons on non-genuine copies of Windows. A plugin for Firefox has been released, but it doesn’t always work.
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