Category: The Site

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I’ve had a few complaints that this site is slow to load for peeps. Let me know in the comments please. I’ve got a number of embeds on the site so they may be slowing it down.

Now that I’ve begun to use Twitter again I wanted to see if there was some way for my blog to tell Twitter when I’ve posted. A quick Google late last week showed up Twitter Updater, a WordPress plugin that seemed to fit the bill.

After installing it and setting it up I noticied that it wasn’t sending anything to Twitter. Presuming that someone else must have had the same issue I spotted a link from the author’s blog to a mod which fixes it. I was going to stick in a graph with my TweetStats but they seem to be working on that site.

If your not reading this in a feed reader then you may notice a few changes on the side bar. I’ve switched it around slightly and have installed the rather impressive Now Reading plugin. I wanted a way to show people what I’m reading at the moment and it fills the bill rather well. I’ve tweaked the display slightly with the template functions but have yet to really explore features like the library. Will do in the future. I’ve also ditched the Jaiku updates in favour of my ones from Twitter and I’ve also lowered the amount of stories shown in the Digg box to 5.