Well, it’s now a done deal. A little over a week ago last Saturday, Frances and I finally (after 8 years together) tied the knot, and got married. We were in a beautiful setting in the Trossachs, with (thankfully) wonderful weather, and surrounded by friends and family. We really couldn’t have asked for a better [...]
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, [...]
Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Why not go give them a hug, or at least a handshake and pat on the back. Who’re they, I can hear some people saying? Well, for a start it’s what I do for a living, and I like hugs. Well, ok, firm handshakes out of preference. We’re the folk most [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A useful mug at last!. Handy for both reference purposes AND caffeine containment purposes! (via boingboing)
BBC Backstage has launched, which enables people to make use of BBC content in innovative ways via their newly published API’s. There are some excellent ideas already. That the BBC is taking such a step is remarkable, and I’m sure it’ll result in even better uses for the already world-leading content they make available. (via [...]
It’s really a point of principle, rather than anything else. I have to fork out a chunk of money each year for hosting leyton.org, and part of that is to cover the bandwidth that is used. Whilst XCalibre are cheap for the UK, in the grand scheme of things I’m seeing better offers out there, [...]
Well, after battling away most of the day with various idiosyncrasies and not a few misunderstandings on my part, I’ve finally managed to complete my migration from movabletype to wordpress. I’ve setup two separate installations, one for my personal thoughts and opinions, and another for this technically oriented one. There are .htaccess rewrite rules in place [...]
I’m so fed up of battling spam, sitting waiting for rebuilds, and all sorts of other hassles that other MovableType users might recognise, that I’m finally giving up and moving over to WordPress. So big changes are afoot here at leyton.org. Watch this space, as the site is tweaked. There’s a lot of background work necessary [...]
