This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
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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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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Following a couple of earlier mentions of Phorm, it’s good to see an organised fightback against it. The following is taken directly from their website:
“AntiPhormLite is a unique application that intelligently self surfs the internet and generates natural surfing information to confuse anyone who is spying or tracking your internet activity. It is a stand [...]
Garan has beaten me to it with a recent posting on his blog. He writes about some very important news for the majority of UK internet users.
If you want the internet to remain the relatively open and free place it is today and you want your browsing habits to remain personal, I suggest you read [...]
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I’ve been trying out various options for secure data backup recently and came across Intervault Lite and their free trial. The system appeals because it uses my broadband connection to transfer data to an off-site location while I continue with my normal work.
Of all the options I’ve looked at, this seems the simplest to use [...]
I’ve got a domain name - bunker.co.uk, which seems fairly generic. The problem is that, apart from email accounts, I’m not really doing anything with it. I have one person chasing me to buy the name but they don’t seem willing to talk proper money so I’m left with finding a decent use for it.
Can [...]
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If you can see this post, then everything has been transferred to a new host and I am free from Fasthosts!
It was pretty simple in the end apart from just one thing:
Unfortunately I hadn’t noticed a “point” upgrade to Wordpress between me downloading the files from the old host and creating the blog framework on [...]
I still haven’t quite got around to moving this blog away from Fasthosts. If I had there would have been none of the nonsense of the last couple of days!
Following the recent hack of the Fasthosts servers, they seem to have decided to change all the back-office database passwords and then not fully tell anyone [...]
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