Category Archives: blogging

Things are not Dead Here

Oct
8
2011

coffee at Cafe54

You may have noticed that the output from this blog has slowed over the last ten or so months from at least a post a week to if you’re lucky one post a month. Sorry about that.

I can’t really put my finger on why my blogging output has decreased.

I still like writing, I mayn’t be any good at it, but I do enjoy the process. Writing in this type of format is liberating and can be very creative. Very different from corporate report speak of business .

Still there must be some reasons for this decrease in output:

Spammers are Getting Tricky

May
23
2010

If you run a Blog or any publicly facing form on the web then you now take it that spammers are a constant problem.

I have noticed over the years that the quality of the comment spammers has been improving. It is to be expect really, as the tools to combat spammers step up and gets better so the spammers will improve their scripts and tools.  Not that I like it.

Over the years you get to see the general type of spam:

  • Simple link list comment spam.

Reasons for a Private Twitter Stream

May
5
2009

People have often asked me why is your twitter stream is set to private.   Why don’t you just open it up to the rest of the world like everyone else does.  Don’t you get this social networking thing.  Why are you just trying to keep things private, when if you have a footprint on the web it’s just a little pointless.

Well yes there are lots if good reasons to open up a twitter stream to the public, here are a few:

  • It’s really easy for people to decide to connect with you if they can read your previous tweets.

WordPress – 404 after Saving a Post

Jan
24
2009

Well like most people I upgraded WordPress 2.7 in December 2008. Everything appeared to be going well, no major issues. Mind you I have been quiet on this blog over the last month or so.

Anyway went to save a post with an externally sourced image in it the other day, and the post failed to update, returning me instead to the standard 404 error page. Which is strange as it had saved okay minutes before. The only difference being the newly inserted image code.