Regular visitors will be used to seeing graphical displays showing where visitors to this site are located. Enough of that I say. We are one world, we share the same planet, we are brothers and sisters and our nationalities are of no importance (apart from the French). I refuse to highlight our geographic differences, dear children of the world. More importantly perhaps, I am too mean to renew the subscription for the service.
Unfortunately, Wordpress refused to allow me to edit the sidebars. So I had no choice but to undertake a long overdue update to Wordpress, from 2.6 to 2.8.4. Many are the horror stories of these upgrades, especially from Billy who is too lazy to do it himself and employs third-world artisans to do the job for a pittance. This takes weeks and is rarely successful, even now his banner is missing from the last attempted upgrade. I am therefore rather smugly pleased to announce that it took me less than half an hour; or rather it took rather less than half an hour for Smart Scripts to do it for me while I very cleverly clicked on the “upgrade now” button when prompted. I rule.
And if that was not enough excitement for one day, I dropped a bit of php code into the comments section to enable gravatars. Prompted by Billy, mine is a toilet seat because apparently I write about the flushing side of life more than I should.
And what does all this mean for you? Almost nothing. Except you do now get a rather wonderful error message when you display a single post. Please treat that as a feature rather than a bug. Thank you.
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2009-08-25| Wentworth saysWhere do I find Billy’s blog. Is it interesting?
2009-08-25| Spike saysIt is password protected due to the extensive criticism of his current employer.
It is riveting. If you like rivets.
2009-08-25| Wentworth saysNah I hate rivets especially Semi-tubular rivets and friction lock rivets but I have taken a fancy to self-pierce rivets of late.
2009-08-27| bart says“apart from the French” and the British Hooligans ;)
2009-08-27| Spike saysBritish hooligans are actually Frenchmen in disguise, trying to discredit the motherland. It must be true because it was on Fox News.
2009-08-27| Guildford saysI’ve been robbed. I don’t get any error message. I am even using Vista which should warrant two error messages, the second to confirm I have understood the first.
Or does the message only appear if you are French?
Au revoir!
2009-08-27| Spike saysBonjour Guildford, Using Mr. Google and my quite frankly crap technical skills, I discovered there is a memory allocation issue with Wordpress which I could fix by changing one number. So I did.
Sorry to hear about Vista; maybe you did something bad in a previous life.
2009-08-27| Billy saysI doth protest (usually too much) and indeed take exception to your characterisation of my organ; I love my employer, it is a number of the dickheads who work for it who come in for occasional criticism.