WordPress 2.5.1
In case you didn’t know, WordPress 2.5.1 was released today. I’ve just done the upgrade here, which was quick and painless I’m glad to say!
The upgrade consists of around 70 bug fixes, but the really important part of this upgrade is that it contains a security fix. You can read all the details over here on the dev blog. If you haven’t already upgraded, given this is a security update I strongly recommend that you do. You can grab yourself a copy right here.
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Blogging history
No, not blogging about history, but the history of my blogging. Despite this blog being only a year old, I’ve been blogging for a lot longer than that, going back almost 4 years I think. My old blog is currently stored over here, but I’ve been thinking about importing all the posts to this domain.
At the time I decided to start afresh and leave that old blog behind, it was mostly because I felt it had become a bit stagnant and that starting again would kickstart some of the blogging juices I’d lost. I’m not really sure that plan worked, but there are a few posts on the old one that have some personal importance to me. I’m not afraid to admit that most of it is rubbish, but I wrote it and it’s a part of my blogging history which I think is important to preserve. Probably not important to anybody else, but hey, it’s my blog and I’ll cry if I want to. :)
So I think over the next few days I’ll get to work on that. Not sure yet if I should import the whole lot or just the least rubbish ones.
*edit*
I’ve decided to manually import by way of copy/pasting the posts I want to keep, so I guess this blog will get a bit fatter over the next few days.
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OpenDNS
My ISP, Karoo, is notorious around these ‘ere parts for being generally crappy. The latest in a long list of complaints being the redirection of unsuccessful DNS lookups to ask.com. Their DNS is usually pretty slow to catch up with changes too, a fact illustrated every time I change the nameservers on a domain that I own. This is just one sucky thing about them, I would list everything but won’t for fear of everyone falling asleep after an hours reading.
However, thanks to OpenDNS I have one less sucky thing to deal with. Somebody told me about this service when the whole Karoo / ask.com debacle first came to light, but I’ve only just gotten around to signing up for it. No more ask.com for me!
It’s already proved how much better it is. I’ve just moved a domain name from one host to another - generally the switch takes at least several hours but as soon as I switched to OpenDNS the domain appeared at the new host. I know this because checking it on a machine that I haven’t yet switched to OpenDNS still shows the domain at the old host, even more than an hour after the change.
There are other useful things about OpenDNS too. You get a nifty control panel which allows you to blacklist sites either by a domain or by blocking whole categories, which is a nice feature for parents. You can also turn on logs which gathers stats about everything you do on the internet, add domains to a whitelist, create shortcuts and probably other things that I haven’t looked into yet. There’s a full list of features here.
On the whole, it seems really good. I’ll keep using it on a per machine basis for a while before switching via the router, just to be sure nothing bad happens like the internet exploding on me or something. :)
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Ubuntu 8.04 released today!
Just in case you weren’t aware, or somehow missed announcements elsewhere, Ubuntu 8.04 will be released today. Codenamed Hardy Heron, you can download your very own copy from the official site.
I’ve been using the beta Hardy for around 3 weeks now and I have to say I’ve found it far more stable than Gutsy ever was.
One of the slightly riskier things they’ve done with this release is to include the beta of Firefox 3. I say riskier because Firefox still being in beta, a number of people have reported stability problems with it under Ubuntu. Personally speaking, I’ve had one or two crashes but they do seem few and far between. The main downside for me is that not all of the addons have been brought up to date for 3, and using the nightly tester tools plugin has not helped in making two of my essential addons compatible. If you don’t rely on addons however there shouldn’t be much of a problem, and I’m sure it will be a simple enough process to downgrade Firefox.
Aside from Firefox there are plenty of other goodies to keep everyone happy, here is the full feature list.
Oh, and I have heard from a reliable source that Linux Outlaws will be releasing a Hardy Heron Special podcast today, so don’t forget to check them out too!
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The name says it all
After a couple of days deliberation, I finally came up with a name, Marley, as in Bob. He’s so laid back the name just fits. As you can see, he’s a friendly little chap too, always wanting to come out and say hello!
My daughter kept the name Edwina for her leopard gecko. I must admit I didn’t like it at first but it’s grown on me (now that I’m past the image of a certain ex-politician of the same name). No pics of her yet as she’s still being shy but I expect that will change soon enough. Apparently the younger they are the more skittish they can be, so we’re giving her lots of time to settle in.
They both had their first treats of waxworms this week (yum), you’ve never seen anything move so fast! Not too many of those in store for them though as they’re very fattening, a bit like chocolate for us humans. Though I’m sure they wouldn’t complain if we fed them nothing but waxworms. Next up on the menu this week - cockroaches (double yum).
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