TechCrunch Giving WordPress 2.5 Thumbs Down?
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Webmaster Chat | No Comments »I was having a look at the technical blogging leviathan that is TechCrunch this evening and I thought I'd check out what their WP code looked like. A technical blog written primarily about Web 2.0 (does anyone still use that phrase??) ...
Holy Spam Surge - Webmasters Beware dfgsdfgfr@r45t !!
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Google, Web Search (SEO), Webmaster Chat, wordpress | 4 Comments »We've been spammed. Hard. We're still trying to work out how and why it occurred, and how we can best mitigate the problems it has already thrown up, but our rudimentary investigation has demonstrated one thing which has wider implications ...
Upgrading WordPress Superfast!
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, wordpress | No Comments »Now that WordPress 2.5.1 has been released (I knew it would happen as soon as I put down my laptop having updated all the old versions to 2.5!) I thought it would be worth sharing with you my failsafe method ...
Vital WordPress Maintenance
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Rob's Pulpit, WordPress Plugins, wordpress | 1 Comment »Right at this very moment, I am going through the motions of upgrading the very last of our (great many) WordPress blog sites to WP 2.5 - probably when completed, we'll see 2.6 hit the WordPress.org site! However, for the ...
Fasthosts Dedicated Servers Down
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Webmaster Chat | No Comments »You may or may not have noticed that several of our other websites are not working at present. This is due to a Fasthosts Dedicated Server which we've been using to test our new channels before getting a much more ...
Useless Voting a Big Hit
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Jokes, THAT's Funny! | No Comments »What with our recent notoriety and all, and my recent habit of telling everyone we live underground in an extinct volcano, things seem to be taking a turn for the better here at The World's Greatest Blog. For example, the increased ...
Amazon Kindle - The Future of Reading?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Iphone Competition, News | No Comments »For ages now, we've all been saying that there will come a time, and a device, that will see us reading content and news straight from a device, and the old paper format disappearing. There have been several limitations to this, ...
Things I Won’t Be Writing About Today
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Current Affairs, General, News, Rob's Pulpit | No Comments »Everyone writes about the same stuff, so today I won't be mentioning: Earth Hour - That was so last year! In fact, I covered it then, and now everyone has copied me; including Google Blacking Out - Google's gone black. Wow. They ...
Internet Outages Increase Production
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General | No Comments »Yet again, the decision to live and work from our new idyllic rural base has come back and bitten us on the arse as our laughably sporadic broadband supply has cut out for the second time in a week.As the ...
The Highest Rated Amazon UK Book? Harry Potter - in Chinese!
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Offbeat News, Rob's Soapbox, THAT's Funny! | 3 Comments »While I was heavily re-shaping our books portal this week, I decided to see what was the highest consumer rated book on Amazon UK. An interesting question, thought I, and one which was sure to turn up an interesting result. Interesting, ...