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Twitter Integration

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After nearly a year of no blog posting which has been mirrored by a year of tweeting i’ve decided to integrate stony’s blog with the twitter account. This is thanks to a couple of plugins twitter tools which downloads the tweets every 15 minutes or on demand and social which links twitter and facebook into the blog. All tweets will be tweeted under the category interweb, with tag twitter and title begins with “Tweet:”

I am still going to try and post to the blog directly but with twitter posting to facebook, and having to post manually to facebook from the blog, why not post direct to the blog from twitter.

Replies on twitter are automatically linked into the blog and can be viewed as a link

Next stage is to link facebook into the blog but i’ll leave that for another day

Plugins and Upgrades

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New Plugins and upgrades are going in left right and centre
Fed up with the spam and new users have introduced captcha across the board.
I may trial letting members post comments without having to enter it down the road, but for now i’m not easing up.
Also upgraded ip2nation again, and will be putting in more plugins to spruce the place up

WordPress 2.8.6

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Got round to doing the 2.8.5 update to wordpress last week and what do you know within days there’s a new update.
At least this time i’ve implemented it straight away.
Can’t remember if i’ve said before, but the automated updater within wordpress makes this an absolute doddle to do.
Much easier than when you had to download the files, delete the whole blog and upload it back again.
This method is done in 5 minutes and even walks you through a backup of the sql database.

As aleksandr might say “simples”:

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International Talk Like A Pirate Day

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talk like a pirate jack sparrow

Today is possibly one of the most stupid but funny international days of the year:-
Talk like a Pirate day
talk like a pirate day date

The Official Website offers advice and discussion on how to make the most of the event.

The UK version yarr.org.uk has similar offering catering specifically for the UK population.

Not sure if i’ll be doing anything specific but may try and slip the odd “yarr me hearty” at the end of sentences.

WordPress 2.8.4

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It’s been a few months since i last updated anything
Saw a few rogue users signing up – hope this deters them – and upgraded to the latest version of wordpress
I must say it’s so much easier than it used to be – the plugins do it all for you without a hitch

Fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com

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I’ll keep it short. Read it in the paper and it looks like a hilariously funny blog with the talk about John “Bhooka Naan” Buchanan coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders among others.
Nobody seems to know who the source of the stories is but all will be revealed sooner or later. In the meantime here’s the link:

fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com
and here is a link to the guardian’s article on the blog

WordPress 2.7.1

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As usual i’m being slapdash with upgrading my blog’s software
But hopefully from now on you won’t see these posts because i’ve installed new plugin at the same time as doing the update which is called WordPress automatic upgrade. With this plugin whenever there’s an upgrade it will do the backup and installation through the wordpress admin pane for me without having to download files, backup and ftp myself which should keep me up to date.

Anyways, am currently with the latest release, haven’t seen anything too radically different other than it’s fixed a bug i had in the admin pane to do with plugins. But do drop me an email if you spot anything.

WordPress 2.6.3

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As usual I’ve been slack with upgrading my blog’s software, and it’s only been a few spammers signing up that has prompted me to upgrade things. And again, I’ve refreshed the ip2nation database & plugin to cater for any unusual countries or ip addresses. Things seem to be working, but as usual if you spot anything odd drop me a line and i can do some investigation.

The main reason for my post though is I’ve just installed an autotagger (I haven’t been tagging my posts in the past) and want to see whether it works.

With a bit of luck if I drop some keywords in it should add the relevant tags

WordPress 2.5

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I’ve been slacking with the maintenance of the blog in terms of updating the software that powers it.
The last update I did was over 2 years ago in Jan 2006 when I went from 2.0.2 to to 2.0.4
Have just done the upgrade to version 2.5
I haven’t confirmed if my theme is compatible or if all the plugins cut the mustard
Also upgraded ip2nations database to the latest versions, so any odd countries should be matched better

If you spot anything that looks odd, let me know and I’ll look into it