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Blacknight hosting offers

anthony — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:33:47 +0000

As anyone who reads this knows, I’ve been using Blacknight since I moved my hosting back from the US a few years ago. They’ve surpassed themselves in terms of service, price and every other factor. They’re the best hosting guys I’ve worked with. As part of their new year celebrations, they’ve been dishing out discount codes. There’s a special one on Mulley’s site at the moment which will get you 25% off new shared hosting accounts. Hop over there quick cos it runs out tonight. Another discount code, to be used seperately, is: refugee You can use that if you’re moving from an existing hosting provider.

UPDATE: For today only (Friday) they’re doing .ie domain names for a tenner! Use the code: iefridayjan09

Is this site slow to load for you?

anthony — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:05:50 +0000

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.

Twitter Updater plugin

anthony — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:46:40 +0000

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.

Friday Photo – Czech Mates

anthony — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:42:50 +0000

This was taken at Pavel’s 30th birthday party in Czech in 2005. We had planned to play a match with the Irish lads vs the Czechs but when a thunderstorm blew in it turned the sandy pitch to a muddy mess. As you can see we went ahead anyway.

Sidebar shenanigans

anthony — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:31:44 +0000

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.

Blogging envy

anthony — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:35:38 +0000

I read a good few Irish bloggers and they all seem to blog a hell of a lot more than I do. Dammit, what the hell is up with my writing of late?!

WordPress updated to 2.3.1

anthony — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:33:42 +0000

It was bugging me to update in the back end of the site but I hate having to download the full zip and overwrite all the files so….I found this list of changed files on the WP forums. No idea if it’s official or whatever but it seems to have worked for me.

WordPress 2.3

anthony — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:22:35 +0000

It’s out and I’ve upgraded. For a full list of improvements etc, see here.

84% addicted to blogging

anthony — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:28:56 +0000

Personally I don’t think the maths add up but alas:
84%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Shoe spam?

anthony — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:31:10 +0000

I seem to be getting a few shoe related spam comments on the site. The comment itself will be relevant to the post but the link they give is for some dodgy looking shoe site. Anyone else got stuff like this? I’ve been deleting them instead of putting them live.