EPIC WIN

That is all.

I’ve not posted anything for a long time now, so I have many bits of news, some important, some not.

Alexander

The most important news is this little man (previously referred to as Project Thor). Alexander Perrie Atkins was born on 11th February 2008, and has spent most of the time since eating, crying, gurgling and making much mess. He is also absolutely fantastic.

Blog

I grew tired of the shared web hosting at Dreamhost, especially after the incident when they accidentally billed their customers a total of several billion dollars due to a typo, then treated the whole thing as a joke. As a result, this blog is now running on a Virtual Private Server hosted by the lovely people at BitFolk. Because this is my server it allows me more freedom in the config, so if it blows up it’s also all my fault.

The blog has also been migrated to Wordpress 2.5, which means nothing to anyone except me, as it now has a nicer admin interface.

I’m going to try and post a bit more often from now on, which is great news for my regular reader, if he or she exists. One thing I want to do is a few technical posts on how to do various things under Linux. Once I’ve worked something out I need to make a note of how I’ve done it, and if I do that here then it may be useful for someone else, but if not then at least I know where to find my notes.

I think that’s about everything for now. Keep ‘em peeled…

It took me a while to get this scanned, because I had to plug the scanner in and I’m lazy. Anyway, this is the latest news on Project Thor (working title).

The site has been updated to Wordpress v2.3, and I made a few changes while I was here:

• There are now two sidebars, which means I don’t have to scroll any more to get to the login link.
• I’ve removed the photos page as the plugin that generated it kept breaking with wordpress upgrades. All the photos are still on flickr.
• Since removing the flickr plugin also meant I lost the little box in the sidebar that showed random photos, I’ve found another plugin that does the same thing, except you can now choose which photosets you want to see pictures from. You lucky people.
• The picture at the top is smaller, so you now see more of my wise words when you visit the site (not that anyone really does…)
• I added a page for Terrance the Shoe, just for John.

After deciding to move my web site from my home server to dreamhost I took the opportunity to start afresh, with a new domain name and everything. When I get the time I’ll be adding photos (some of which can already be accessed on the Photos page), as well as other random thoughts from my brain.