The new Wordpress dashboard has alerted me to an intriguing collection of bizarre incoming links that the blog seems to have. Warning! Do NOT click on this link. It is NSFW and definitely NSFK. I warned you.
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On my blog, its easy for me to know when someone replies to my comments because I get emailed all comments that aren’t marked as spam.
It occurs to me that when I leave a comment on someone else’s blog, I have to go back to the page periodically to see if anyone has replied to my comment. This is sub-optimal, and it would be nice if I could receive email notification of replies to my comments. I can’t do this for everyone else’s blogs, but I can at least give my readers the option.
Now when you comment, you have the option to get emailed all comments on a particular post. It even has a nifty subscription manager that lets you unsubscribe and change email address etc. Why not try it out? I haven’t tested it extensively yet, so if it starts spamming you, PLEASE don’t hesitate to email me and swift corrective action will be taken.
I should take this opportunity to remind readers that email addresses you enter will not be published anywhere, ever. And if you don’t know already, all comment fields except the comment text are optional. But anonymous comment authors beware, I have a tendency to think of you as “random internet people” and may not be as nice to you as I would to someone who identifies themselves…
Oh yeah, and there is already another alternative to all this, subscribe to the comments feed.
After months of procrastination, I just upgraded Wordpress to version 2.6. Where to start… Well the admin interface looks way nicer, but when I’m writing or editing a post, stuff like categories and tags are not as immediately accessible. I mean I have to scroll down the page to get to them. This is probably not a big deal, since these are things you would set once and rarely change. But its still a bit annoying. In the old interface I could move these sections up and down on the sidebar, and either you can’t do this anymore, or I just haven’t figured out how yet. It also looks like there is a lot of wasted space at the top of the page, and this is one of my all time pet peeves. Grrrr! See this screenshot for what I’m talking about.
But on the plus side, the Autosave feature kicks total arse now. It’s off to the side so I can see it easily, and it dims slightly when saving, so I catch this in my peripheral vision and know everything’s going to be OK. Post Preview is now a nice big button instead of the pissy little link, so that’s also great.
I also just found this intriguing “Turbo” link up in the corner. Apparently Wordpress now supports Google Gears so “After you install and enable Gears most of WordPress’ images, scripts, and CSS files will be stored locally on your computer. This speeds up page load time.” Maybe I’ll try that out some time.
Overall, it was pretty painless. My theme still works, and thus the site also appears to work. I haven’t checked everything though, so if anything’s broken, drop us a line via comment or email.
Today, I thought naively that I’d try out WordPress’s newly added tag support. The natural thing to do is to convert one’s categories into tags. There’s a built in Category to Tag Converter exactly for this found under Manage->Import. So foolishly, I selected all my categories and clicked the big button. Big mistake. This tool managed to actually deleted the entire ‘categories’ table from the database. And my current theme doesn’t yet have tag support so all posts showed up as filed in “uncategorizedin” whatever that means.
Luckily though, I had a backup of my DB from a recent upgrade to 2.3.2 so I was able to restore the ‘categories’ table in its entirety. But I also had to edit the ‘term_taxonomy’ table and replace every occurence of ‘post_tag’ with ‘category’. They are using bloody VARCHAR for this, can you believe it? Thankfully, the ‘term_relationships’ table which links posts to categories was untouched and everything is now back to normal. After this experience, I’ll remain content in my use of categories to fake tags, at least until I can be bothered updating the theme.
I haven’t done this since I started the blog, so here in descending order are the top ten Google searches sending people to Frost Nova as reported by Google Analytics:
- soushinsei
- coconara
- frost nova
- planet hiltron
- dukkah recipe
- adding trackers torrents
- buy gamecube controllers
- chai recipes
- coincard problem
- force winamp scrobbling
And the Browser spread:
- Firefox: 60%
- Safari: 24%
- Internet Explorer: 16%
Wow, has it really been 100 posts? In 428 days. I’ve done a new theme for the blog so you RSS junkies go there and check it out. It’s a modded version of K2 which I saw over at ascnnr and liked. Turns out K2 is not only pretty but also really functional and easily customisable. I’ll refrain from blogging about the magic that is CSS but it truly does rock. I wonder how long it will take for soushinsei to get a hit on Google…
Hey there readers! I was bored with the old logo so I just made another one. I haven’t decided if I like it yet, what with being a bloody perfectionist and all. I tried to encompass both kinds of Frost Nova; the infinity logo thingy, and the outer space phenomenon thingy. This infinity logo was made be photographing an LED torch spun in circles on long exposure. The font used is Calibri which is included in Office 2007.
To aid in your boredom relief, you can now vote in my really witty polls. And it’s all yummy AJAX thanks to the WP-Polls plugin, which is an absolutely polished piece of coding. Poll ideas welcome as I’ll probably run out of ideas after the first 5 polls. Now I’m going to try and add a poll to this post…
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