A bit of a ‘meta post’ this one. I’ve been doing some tweaking and fiddling to the website over the last few days. Primarily this means there are some new ‘Chicklets’ and items in the sidebar that may be worth a browse. I wanted to just put a short post together explaining what they are, [...]
As a systems administrator, I really should have known better. Yesterday, the machine (”dexter”) that hosts leyton.org, and a number of other sites and domains, died a painful death. It’s power supply (PSU) blew. Not content with simply taking itself out, it actually knocked out the entire power strip to which it was connected, taking [...]
A few tweaks, courtesy of the ever-more-impressive wordpress, which powers all that you see. I’ve had a few server related problems this last couple of weeks. MySQL backing up, load rising, apache processes growing, and load rising as a consequence. Combine that with MailScanner going a little AWOL at times (Spamassassin is chewing up a lot [...]
Well I’ve decided that, as my day job is a Systems Administrator, and that my various domains are costing a fair bit to host, I’m as well to secure a dedicated server in a managed data centre, and set things up ideally for my purposes. Not least for leyton.org, but also for places such as [...]
How to integrate Wordpress and an e-mail list, such that posts to the e-mail list get posted as weblog articles (for wider reading of the discussions), but that responses get attached as comments to reflect the discussion and debate? Below is an early-preview of a tweak I’ve made to Postie, the excellent Wordpress plugin to integrate [...]
I’m not a fan of Desperate Housewives, so I generally crank up the computer and do some weblog fiddling when it’s on. Last week, I took the plunge and upgraded Labtastic to Wordpress 2.0, as it was badly broken anyway, and it seemed like a good starting point to explore this new release. This week, as [...]
Updated to Wordpress 1.5.2 this evening (so far, so good), and during writing, browsing and thinking I thought “I wish I could do delayed posts”… I suffer from restrictive-internet-usage-policy at work (typical and quite understandable in many finance organisations), and also found I had a few things written in just the one evening, but [...]
One of the perks of wrenching Techie Musings over to wordpress was that the spammers suddenly found themselves firing blanks. I watch the access_log as they fruitlessly POST to the old MovableType installation, which I’ve replaced in all the key places with a simple file which returns a 200 success status and little else. Unfortunately though [...]
I’ve just Upgraded the site to Wordpress 1.5.1.3, which appeared earlier this morning. It’s easy enough to apply the upgrade, so long as I remember to keep the themes I’ve tweaked from the default. Certainly no problems so far, so looking good.
Updating to Wordpress 1.5.1 and a few problems are persisting… Mainly feeds and templates… Ok, all done. Seems I had some difficulties with .htaccess (sorted now), a lack of recent updates to the website added a bit more confusion, plus some CSS and PHP to retrofit to the templates in use. Anyway, everywhere is on [...]
