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As you probably noticed, we’ve been having some problems this week, to say the least!
On Sunday night, we managed to have a massive hardware failure whereby one of our servers – the one which powers most of the WordPress driven websites – totally fell to pieces. We had to recompile everything from backup after rebuilding [...]

WordPress 2.7.1 has been released and I was around at the very moment it went live, so our flagship sites (Your-Story.org and Remix.vg) were updated within seconds of the latest release going live.
I’m not sure what has changed this time around – looks fairly basic – but is doubtless a good way to prevent any [...]

Today we checked our usual websites and noticed that the videos were not displaying in Firefox. I found a really useful thread here and a really good explanation here. The culprit seems to be IPv6 which can be uninstalled. It turns out we’re not the only ones struggling with our embedded Youtube videos.
This is a [...]

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 last of these upgrades, I’ve had to unzip locally and upload by FTP as I’m [...]

I’ve added a new feature to this blog after playing around with some flash stuff, so from now on, I’m going to try to put some suitable music into each post whenever possible, maybe then someone will actually read an entire post…
Anyhow, test it out here, I’ve put an Arctic Monkeys track in, which I [...]

Great News!
My Robs Translator plugin is now working with Internet Explorer.
Largely due to a comment I received about how my Robs Translator plugin is obsolete due to internet explorer being the best thing in the world ever now that absolutely everyone uses Windows Vista with IE 7, I decided to finally sort out the problem.
There [...]

I had a quick check of my Google Analytics stats before, and Google have done something pretty amazing – they’ve either significantly boosted my PageRank on a number of pages, or have changed something within the search algorithm which suits my pages – from Sunday onwards, I’ve received a whole heap of organic hits through [...]

I was asked to do this a while back, but I could never find anything suitable and didn’t have the time to sort it out, but now I have – I’ve made myself use a captcha rather than make people sign in.

I know, it’s crap having to register and sign in for every thing you [...]

Because a couple of people have asked for it, I’ve made a new French Translator plugin, which uses the Google Translation engine to translate blogs written in French to English or German.
This is very much a beta version, as I’ve no way to test it, as my blog is not in French!

Also, as with the [...]

Currently, the Robs Translator plugin does not work correctly with IE 6 or 7. I am aware of this! I have been trying to solve these issues today, though I may have to resort to javascript to get MSIE to input the url correctly in the Google translation pages.
This fault is with Internet Explorer, in [...]