Tag Archives: blogs
Comment Spam
Finally the spammers have found me. I’ve got about 30 comment spams in my moderation queue this morning. Good job I enabled the moderation in the first place… Anyway, to help with sorting it all out, I wrote a delete … Continue reading
Blog Outage, Blame PHP
My blog hasn’t been up and running for the last 24 hours or so. This is because I foolishly decided to upgrade to PHP5. After playing “guess which extensions wordpress-pg needs,” I then got served up a lovely blank page. … Continue reading
wordpress & backslashes
One of my pet peeves about wordpress is that because it’s based on PHP and MySQL it doesn’t like backslash characters at all. It just eats them up and screws up your post. But I’ve found a simple answer. Use … Continue reading
PostgreSQL Upgrade
I’ve just upgraded to PostgreSQL 8.0, which as expected, didn’t go entirely smoothly. The config file format has changed a bit, although ediff soon took care of that. The dump-and-restore rigmarole is still there, but then that’s what nightly backups … Continue reading
Migration
I need to migrate the old web site over to wordpress. There’s a lot to change though and I need to make sure that it goes (relatively) smoothly. I don’t want to end up with too many 404s. Stuff that … Continue reading
Old Content
I have lots of content from my old site which needs to be brought in to the new blog. I’ll start adding it as new posts and add redirects on the old locations so that they still work. Thankfully, this … Continue reading
Hello World
It’s time to start using this site for something useful. I’ve used wordpress at work for a while, and it seems like it could be useful here too. It’s a lot easier than the previous setup of cvs+xslt+make. I’ve decided … Continue reading