February 4, 2012

Too many Facebook notifications?

On Facebook, sometimes it’s handy to see that someone replied to something you commented on. A bit like subscribing to blog comments. However, there’s a bit of a problem: no unsubscribe. At least not for individual posts. Tweet

FeedBurner, what did I ever do to you?

Let’s see now. Two days ago, my blog had a healthy subscriber count of 1,119. Not bad. Yesterday, it fell to 894. Not great, but it might go up again. Today, things got bad. Really bad. Tweet

The evilness that is Monday morning

At every stage throughout my life, I’ve grown to hate Mondays with a passion. But particularly Monday mornings. Whether I’ve been at school or work, whether it was before or after I got into IT, whether I’ve been in the UK or Australia, no matter where I’ve been, I think the only time I’ve ever [...]

Mid-year resolutions, 2010

OK, so it’s not exactly the middle of the year, but it seems like a good opportunity to set some mid-year resolutions for the remainder of 2010. I think it’s good to set resolutions all year round,  instead of only when the New Year rolls around. Especially as, in a probably alcohol-fuelled state of madness, [...]

Thanks to Akismet, WordPress isn’t quite as free as it used to be

Update: It looks like Akismet has always offered pricing options, but the terms are now more obvious than they were before. Read the comments for a full explanation provided by Alex from Automattic. WordPress is the target of endless gushing praise, reason #1 usually being “omg it’s free!” Don’t tell anyone, there are other free [...]

A decent site is not made overnight

Maybe an unpopular site. I literally made this blog overnight. No, not last night, but over the night when I made it… oh, you get the picture. If you’re hoping to build The Next Big Thing, I reckon you’re going to fail. Now, if you have some idea of what you want to build, and [...]

How’s your memory? The neverending stream of lifestyle tips

Every time a newspaper or news website tells us something about living a healthy life, it’s like they’re teasing us with clues to a lifelong riddle. Yes, you should eat this, but not that; oh, but it might be OK if you eat a certain amount, though perhaps not in combination with this, or this, [...]

Whose idea was it to stop using page numbers?

Back in 2005, I wasn’t really doing much online. I had a blog that hardly anyone was reading, a CMS that hardly anyone was using, and some music that hardly anyone was hearing. Not much has changed since then, except for getting 5 years older, and perhaps too many years more cynical than my chronological [...]

Blog relaunch: Why starting over is a really bad idea

I have many blogs. Some would say too many. How many more times do you need to wipe the blog and start over? Tweet