Archive for the ‘Asides’ Category

View counters

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 779 views

The view counters are back. They look a bit silly at the moment (some posts have more comments than views) but that'll sort itself out over time.

Safety First!

Friday, August 17th, 2007 288 views

Decided I'd get an SSL certificate for futt.org, so I won't have to do plaintext login over unsecured connections when doing admin stuff. This unfortunately means SSL across the board for WP,  since it can't be switched on just for the admin control panel. It shouldn't matter much though, unless ...

Meh, wp post-by-mail is crap

Friday, June 22nd, 2007 248 views

Been trying to setup post-by-mail, but it seems horribly broken from 2.0 and up. It'll grab the Subject line from incoming mail but completely discard the content. Also, this site seems extremely sluggish lately... Sorry about that.

For King and Country

Monday, May 7th, 2007 312 views

Tomorrow I'm off to a 4 day national guard exercise, so the spammers will have free reign here for a while. Hopefully they've managed to fix RSS widgets by then! Anyway - see you next week, if I survive.

Facebook

Saturday, May 5th, 2007 343 views

In a fit of boredom I went ahead and made a Facebook profile... Turns out a buttload of acquaintances are there too, weeird. Hrm.

Sidebar breakage

Saturday, April 28th, 2007 174 views

Some sidebar widgets got broken during a recent update from the Subversion repository. Mostly affected RSS feeds. Dunno when it gets fixed but we'll see. Looks like the WP team is integrating Widgets into Wordpress proper (used to be an optional plugin).