New spam comment tactic
I’m always intrigued by how the spammers try and get comments onto threads, the latest approach is to copy someone elses comment verbatim, but hoping that it gets posted so that their name-url link is...
View ArticleIf you write – they will come
I’m interested, peripherally, about how people find web pages and why they read them. Especially with respect to personal blogs (such as mine) for people who are neither famous nor especially...
View ArticleStupid Spammers
So I’ve commented before on how stupid spammers are, mostly blog comment spammers clearly in the context of this blog. Obviously there are bots which submit spam, and there are clearly people being...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oops
I changed themes to test out the new default WordPress theme, didn’t like it and then when I switched back to Mandigo, it won’t let me edit the settings Please stand by while I try and fix things!...
View ArticleChoosing a template
I want to change the template for this blog, because I fancy a change. But choosing a template is not easy! Instead of templates just changing how the site looks, over time, they end up changing how...
View ArticleOrange is a state of mind
Finally settled on a new theme (the excellent Suffusion) which comes with a bunch of colour schemes, and I’ve picked Orange on Black (for now). I know it makes little difference since the 6 people who...
View ArticleWindows Live Writer?
I tried playing with Windows Live Writer last year, but the download stalled and never fully installed, and I never got around to re-trying it later. I don’t really have any issue writing blog posts...
View ArticleHas twitter killed my blogging?
Do I blog less because I find it easier to write a couple of 140 character tweets than a full blog post? I think it may be true. Or maybe I just feel I’ve got less to say? Or maybe I feel that since...
View ArticleArticles and Sorting
Hmm, the 8bit Mid-life Crisis posts are increasing in number pretty quickly, and I think they’re going to break the ‘articles’ page. They already break the sorting which is alphabetical, so 10 comes...
View ArticleI didn’t think …
When I started writing the Fear of 4 Wheels blog posts, I really didn’t anticipate there being this many. I would have come up with a better numbering system than just ‘part 14′. That is all. Related...
View ArticleGiven up blogging?
Maybe not. Last few weeks I’ve had an itch forming to start writing blog posts again. Maybe I’m starting to finally recover from the crushing despair I felt in the job I left in June this year? Who...
View ArticleExcuse me …
You’ll need to excuse me while I fuck about with carefully experiment with various site themes. Related posts: Theme header images and meta blog entries I’ve added another header image to the site...
View ArticleDiabetes
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2005. In the 12 years since we found the right level of medication, the metformin dose I’m on has never changed. Until today. Up from 1500mg a day to 2000mg a...
View ArticleYes, it’s back.
Turns out I still want to blog. So it’s back. I’ve managed to import all the old content, but, Links are probably broken I haven’t got (and won’t be using) all the plugins so you may see weird [text]...
View ArticleWeird
One the things I don’t quite understand, is how Covid didn’t result in me writing shit loads of blog posts. It should have really, but instead, it absolutely killed the remains of my blogging. Which is...
View Article
