Hmmm… that’s mildly annoying. A back end upgrade had unexpected side effects, breaking the custom modified theme I was using for the man website (Blog excluded) due to the way it parses get_categories(), so now it looks mingered.
Well more mingered than it was previously anyway. A patch will be out in a few days, so I hear.
Eh, what do you know – some how, this site gets enough visits per month to use over 1.25GB+ bandwidth per month.Yay for search engines!
Bleh, no point creating 4 separate posts for 4 small issues so here they are amalgamated into one:
1) As is the inevitable fate of all blogs, Russian spammers have found Blag 
Akismet has been installed to filter out SPAM comments… (Those Russians really need to try harder – “nice blog 
————- (url to mp3 website) – by default, most blogs should block their comments anyway, without the need to install anti-spam plugins but no harm done beefing up security)
2) Coles, the supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers which supports terrorism has stopped selling “Pacific” branded 50-pack made in China ultra unhealthy packed with MSG spring rolls
3) Looks like the 301 redirect worked! Google, MSN/Live, Yahoo, Netcraft and Alexa have started crawling this new URL
4) Wiki’s are so freaking annoying to set up and maintain!!! Especially mediawiki (what Wikipedia uses), being one of the most un-user friendly pieces of software ever created by man.
Blag is moving home!
From the 2nd of February 2009, it will be hosted at www.theparanoidtroll.com
Access blag using the navigational pane at the top of the site, or go directly to www.theparanoidtroll.com/blog
All search engine requests, page vists and RSS feeds should automatically redirect to the new website from tomorrow onwards.
People are actually visiting this blog blag… visitors from China, US, Aus, Turkey, Sweden and Germany.
Speaking of which, how did this end up being Crawled by Net Stats, Web Archiver, Google, Live, and Yahoo anyway? I don’t think anyone would have linked to this, not in the 3 months or so its been running anyway. And what did I say to attract the attention of social opinion/networking RSS crawlers…
*OMG the government is onto me*
As an aside, I wish the chaps who develop Siteworx/Alloy hosting or whoever’s responsibly would update Scriptworx more often. Manual updates are a pain, though WordPress’s new auto-update feature should reduce the stress.
As a second aside, still waiting on Billion/Internode for new firmware. Nothing wrong with the device – I just like having the latest and greatest 
Ok, so my last attempt to update Word Press didn’t go all too well. Hopefully the shit doesn’t hit the fan this time. Crappy un-user friendly Fileman web file manager :@
In other news, subscribe to the RSS feed! For those that don’t have a dedicated manager, Firefox 2 and 3 have this functionality built into them.
Hmmm… I suppose the default Word Press theme is stylish and all, but it’s cliche’d, as blue always is, when used in the context of websites. Oh wait, Oz Techeducate is blue!
All of the themes online are so garish and awful though. I could try my hand at making a theme, but I have a sneaking suspicion I will find myself subject to flying cow turds
Om nom nom!
Yay! First blog post ever
Hmm… blogs are overrated. Lets rename them blags.
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