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Pardon my paragraphs

If you’re wondering about the appearance of cm.com today, this link should explain all.
And stop staring.
–c.

Spambot blocking

If you’re anything like me - and I know I am - then you run Wordpress for your blogging activities. You also allow users to register on your site so that they can store their usernames and so forth for next time, but you are getting increasingly pissed off nowadays with the amount of spurious [...]

(Inter) Face Lift

When I see posts in my RSS reader that are obviously just automated dumps of links from delicious or magnolia, I very rarely click through to read them. If whoever it was couldn’t be bothered to actually write something about whatever they’ve found, I won’t bother to click on it. Very occasionally I hover over [...]

“Either that wallpaper goes, or I do”

It may be noticed that things look a little different hereabouts. (Those of you reading via RSS, go about your business, nothing to see here…)
I’m just getting bored of the same old layout (great though it is) and fancied trying out some WordPress themes as I don’t really have the time or inclination to redesign [...]

Cast of several

Beercast!
and
Numbercast!
–c.

Random quiz

What does the following number mean?
16877
?
–c.

Upgraded

So here we are running under Wordpress 2.2. I must say the upgrade process was remarkably hassle-free. Much more arduous was the process of upgrading my theme (Veryplaintxt) to its latest version, then retro-fitting all the little customisations I’ve made.
Still, it’s done now. As you were.
–c.

No, not yet…

So I haven’t done the Wordpress upgrade yet. Yesterday I noticed that the theme I use had a newer version out, so I upgraded that instead. This will account for any slight differences noticeable from yesterday.
I’m hoping to get the actual Wordpress upgrade done today some time, though this is subject to having spare time [...]