Blogtender was hacked yesterday, resulting in a handfull of posts getting a list of invisible links added to the bottom, I assume in the hope that Google will pick them up. After changing my passwords (probably unnecessarily) I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.6. The upgrade process is easy …
“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
The Incredibly Strange Film Festival is back …
This is a fun little script I wrote up that reads your weekly top albums chart from Last.fm, gets the cover art for each album, then displays the top albums on your blog. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how it looks. …
This is a quick and dirty php script I wrote up to convert an RSS feed into ics format so I could display it in iCal. It uses MagpieRSS to parse the RSS, then creates an event for each item. There is plenty of room for …
Last week drunkenbatman popped up in my feeds again after almost a year offline. The last few comments on the previous post had led me to suspect the worst, though he is fairly prone to slipping off the radar for extended …
A little over a year after I first started this blog I’ve decided it’s time for an upgrade. Behind the scenes Blogtender now runs the shiny new Wordpress 2.1, aka ‘Ella’, but more importantly I’ve made several fundamental changes to the design of the pages.
I …
I just finished updating The Vic with the timetable our latest event, Family Night at the Movies. It was my first real exploration of the power of CSS and html lists. Until recently I would have just used a table to do this, but since my new resolution …
I’ve just finished moving the website for the Victoria Theatre Trust over to WordPress. The site now uses CSS for all layout and styling, using a custom WordPress theme. The goal was to simplify updating the site so that other trustees would be able to contribute more easily. I …
I’ve added a moblog to the sidebar by using a flickr badge to display the most recent 3 photos from my photo stream. I’m considering getting it set up to show only photos I tag with moblog, but for some reason I couldn’t get that working when I …
Blogtender was hacked yesterday, resulting in a handfull of posts getting a list of invisible links added to the bottom, I assume in the hope that Google will pick them up. After changing my passwords (probably unnecessarily) I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.6. The upgrade process is easy …
“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
The Incredibly Strange Film Festival is back …
This is a fun little script I wrote up that reads your weekly top albums chart from Last.fm, gets the cover art for each album, then displays the top albums on your blog. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how it looks. …
In case anyone else runs into this problem in the future, here are the steps needed to share a Canon Imageclass 4140 laser printer between OSX and XP. I’ve only tested this under Leopard, but it should work for Tiger as well.
First, the problem. While …
DNSBL spam database lookup. Check an IP against several blacklists.
