Category: Geek stuff (page 3)

Sorry for the brief hiatus this afternoon as I upgraded the site to the latest version of WordPress. It’s always more complicated than you think, as you find that not only do you have to upgrade the WordPress files: you also have to bug-fix to see whether all your plugins are compatible with the latest … [Read More]

I need to work on the formatting, but at least the content is there now. Please remind me if I seem to have forgotten to subscribe to a key feed. Thanks. [Read More]

As I warned a week ago, I’ve now blocked hotlinks – or at least I think I have. I’ll be checking some of your sites to see whether it’s worked or not. If any of you think you’re a charity case and deserve to have some of my bandwidth, please email me. Update 15 March. … [Read More]

… sort of. It was a bumpy landing. On the basis of 5 minute’s playing: I’ve lost all the BlogWatch feeds (easy to fix). Spam Karma doesn’t like you commenting. Don’t know what’s going on there. I’ve also had my email inbox deluged with 300 spam comments to moderate. Probably a related challenge. So I’ve … [Read More]

This site will not be updated for the next few days. The removal men are in, they’re putting everything in packing cases, wrapping everything up nicely, and hopefully unpacking things and putting them in the right rooms at the other end. Until you see a post which says “LKL has Landed” this site will be … [Read More]

Browsing my blog statistics this morning I noticed an unusual pattern. Yesterday, 70 people visited this site and systematically read through all the monthly archives. Some of you particularly liked the archive for July 2006. In fact, in the last couple of days more people have looked at my July 2006 archive than have come … [Read More]

I almost feel honoured that cRu$ty the playful Algerian hacker has paid me three visits. The second visit was seemingly a personal one – he (or she) actually left a comment on one of the posts. But I know I shouldn’t take it all too personally: according to the site that he (or she) directed … [Read More]

First the Iranians, now an Algerian. A gent (or maybe a gal – one shouldn’t be sexist about this) who goes by the name of cRu$ty paid me a visit and placed a picture of a skull with a very fetching blue rose, together with the above motto, where my home page should be. Have … [Read More]

I figured out that if I change the blog templates the hacker problem goes away. So maybe I’ve isolated where my Iranian friends have done their damage, and possibly I’m on the way to fixing it. In the meanwhile, please bear with the slight shortcomings in the visuals. Then it’s just a question of working … [Read More]

If you click on any of the article category links, or monthly archive links, you will get a friendly message from some Iranian hackers. I’m working on remedying this, but in the meanwhile browsing through the site will be a bit more difficult. You can still use the search tool. [Read More]

I’m off on a quick business trip (combined with hopefully a pleasurable weekend in Seoul) so posts over the next 7 days or so may be a bit hit-and-miss. I managed to maintain the daily posts while I was on a 3 week holiday last year by virtue of having a huge pile of CD … [Read More]