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New toys!
I’ve made a few more changes to the site, the most obvious being the ‘Sign-in with Twitter’ link on the comments. This means that you can comment here using your Twitter account, and (optionally) have...
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Changing the theme
I’ve had the plain red default MT4 theme for a couple of years now. So I’ve switched to the light blue variant of it. What do you think? The switch was done with StyleCatcher, an easy-theme switcher...
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Closing comments on old entries
In the hope that it will reduce the current waves of comment spam that I’m receiving, I’ve turned off comments for all entries published prior to January 2009, plus a few published in 2009 that seem to...
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Summary of changes this week
Rather than post about each change I’ve made to the site this week, I’ve rolled them all up for this one entry.First of all, I’ve enabled gzip compression on all pages using Apache’s mod_deflate (which...
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Server upgrade
Up until now, I’ve been running Debian Lenny on this server. Lenny is now being retired, so I’ve upgraded it to Debian Squeeze. This also means that Apache, PHP, MySQL and other packages are all...
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Less trackable sharing
There’s been a bit of a h00-hah on that there internets about the use of JavaScript beacons and third-party cookies on web pages which can be used to track users across sites. Theoretically this means...
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Re-building traffic
Back in October last year this site experienced a sudden drop in page views, and as yet I’m still not certain what caused it. Since then, traffic has remained around the 400 views per day mark, and...
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Recent changes
I’ve made a few changes to the site, and thought I’d share them with you.WordPress 3.4It’s probably of little surprise that I upgraded to WordPress 3.4 upon its release last week. Not that there are...
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Twitter Cards – how to add them to your blog
Two factor authentication wp.me/p1BkSe-2xO— Neil Turner (@nrturner) May 19, 2013If you can’t see the full tweet linked above, click here for an image version.Twitter have enabled ‘Twitter Cards‘ for...
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Keeping the server steady
Since August, I’ve been having problems with the performance of this server. It was slow, and was regularly getting overloaded. In some cases, a hard reboot was necessary to get the server up and...
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SSL-secured
One of my first projects after moving to the new server was to sort out a SSL certificate. Until now, any secure connections to this site have been using a ‘self-signed’ certificate which brings up big...
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Knowing how the cookie crumbles
I’ve made two minor changes to the site today:There is now a privacy policy available to viewThe first time you visit this site from today, you will be asked for permission to store cookies on your...
View ArticlePink elephants and lemonade, dear Jessie
On Wednesday I upgraded the server hosting this blog to the latest version of Debian Linux, codenamed ‘Jessie’. Jessie has been out since September, and supported by my hosting company since last...
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