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Yet another blog upgrade completed!
This time I chose a slightly different method which made things a lot easier. I used the WP Plugin called Wordpress Automatic Upgrade (WPAU) which is available as a free download here.
Everything seems to be working so I think I’ll leave it be for a while!
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Have you heard about the Geograph British Isles project? it’s a great site which set out to accumulate photos from every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland - buildings, landscapes etc.
So far, about 70% of the squares are complete with at least 1 picture with the remaining blanks in some pretty wild places [...]
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Filed under: Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Photography, Software
Riding with Robots on the High Frontier is a website with the tagline “Saddle up for a trip with the robotic spacecraft now exploring the wild black yonder!”.
It updates daily with superb photographs and animations from various exploration spacecraft.
Well worth a visit!
The Chasms of CerberusSent by: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | From: Mars
Released: Aug, 2008 | [...]
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Filed under: Astronomy, Hobbies, Techie
Yesterday three of us were lucky enough to be invited to attend the Space: 08 event at the Barbican Centre.
The highlight of the event for me was the Masterclass conducted by Roger Shawyer the Director of SPR Ltd. After introducing himself and explaining his background in various satellite launch products, Roger went on the explain [...]
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You know the feeeling, you wait for ages for a bus then two come along together!
Well that’s exactly how I feel about WordPress! As I mentioned earlier, I hadn’t bothered with the last few upgrades and finally took the plunge with v2.5.1. Guess what? a few days later and along comes v2.6!
Anyhow, it’s now installed, [...]
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When I last tried posting to WordPress from this MacBook, everything appeared as one long sentence and I had to drop the WYSIWYG interface and edit the HTML source for the post in order to make the thing readable. Hardly the best way to blog. The spec for v2.5.1 suggestes that the problem has been [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
I have just upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.5.1 having not bothered for a few releases. All seems to have gone well but if you do spot anything strange, please let me know.
There are a few new features which I’ll have a go at sometime and they also claim to have sorted out a very [...]
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I had to go over to St Lawrence at the weekend and duly entered the address details into my (previously!) trusted Tomtom GPS only to be warned that I may be driving to an area where they drive on the right!
Unless there is something I don’t know about the Southern part of the Island, the [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Hardware, Isle of Wight, Software
I’ve had a batch of calls this week from people who can’t get their PCs started.
It seems the last few days of warmer weather are causing a few problems. Of course it may be a coincidence but I can’t remember 4 hard drives failing in as many days. My suspicion is that the relatively sudden [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Software, Techie
A friend recently dropped off a PC infected with some particularly nasty spyware infections. The usual SmitFraud, WinAntiVirus and Vundo stuff but this time, I couldn’t find anything that would shift it.
Unfortunately, the cause was a couple of pieces of so called AntiVirus and AntiSpyware software which were in themselves carriers and propagators of this [...]
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