Tag: Blogging
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Ryder Cup blog
I’m delighted to see that all my nagging of my old friend John Prendergast has paid off and he has started a blog! However, I wouldn’t have been more surprised if it was about crochet! I never knew John was a closet golf fan. John’s is the Ryder Cup blog (the Ryder cup is the…
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Heading off
We (my family and I) are heading off to Spain (on a house swap holiday) so there will be no posting to this blog for a couple of weeks (the house we are getting doesn’t have broadband)! Don’t anyone turn off the Internet while I’m gone!!!
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Speed up posting to WordPress
via Pat Phelan comes a nifty WordPress plugin which speeds up posting from WordPress blogs. Called WP-No Ping Wait, the plugin works by waiting until after the post has been posted before alerting the pinging services! Nice one, thanks Pat. UPDATE – this plugin has caused issues on a number of sites I manage so…
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Bad Behaviour blocks TechMeme
I noticed recently that none of my posts were appearing on TechMeme so I emailed Gabe Rivera, TechMeme’s founder to ask what the problem was. He responded: Your Bad Behavior plugin is blocking me, even though my crawler behavior is rather benign. If you can whitelist my crawler (does BB let you?), it looks like…
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Awstats vs. Webalizer – lies, damn lies and statistics!
My hosting company is running two different web stats programs on the log files for this site – Webalizer and Awstats. Same log files – you’d think they’d come up with something like similar results – not a chance! In the Webalizer stats I am wildly popular: Ok, maybe not wildly popular but when you…
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Adding images to your blog post
A picture is worth a thousand words or so the old saw goes and it is certainly true that an image can greatly help the look of a blog post. Several people have asked me recently how to add images to blog posts so I thought I’d put up a blog post explaining how I…
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Shemas Eivers – Blogs and search engine optimisation (SEO)
Shemas Eivers is the MD of Client Solutions and he was at a meeting I also attended recently. Shemas was asking about tools for SEO and when I replied that blogs are the most powerful tool I know of for increasing SEO, Shemas didn’t seem to believe me. Fair enough. Shemas this post is for…
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No comment
I just spent the last 10 minutes trying to leave a comment on Todd Cochrane’s site (Todd is the guy behind GeekNewsCentral). Todd had a post up today about his Mac and how one of the apps in it hangs from time to time. I wanted to leave a comment about how my Mac crashed…