Archive for July, 2008
Donald Kelly Featured Me
Donald Kelly wrote a cool post about young bloggers, and he featured me! :)
Phuket, I’ll Go.
I saw this on Paul Walsh’s blog and I think it’s brilliant. It made me laugh, despite how tired and humourless I’m feeling at the moment.
I Passed! :D
I’ve been thinking about writing this for a few days, but ultimately decided that I should wait until I got my results first.
No, it’s not my GCSE’s *yet*. Last Monday/Tuesday, I did a powerboat course. Got to drive around for two days, practiced rescuing bob (the doll man overboard thing) and such. It was good.
Anyhow, [...]
Couldn’t Agree With This More
I couldn’t agree with this post about Google Knol more. Search Engines are search engines, not content producers.
July PR Update
It seems that there is a pagerank update going on, Matt Cutts indicated that it was starting on his blog over here.
Thing is, for most people, it’s going to be a few days before they can see their new ranks. I’m actually not all that concerned about it, it’s just a number, but for those [...]
DreamSpark
I just discovered (through a friend) a program that Microsoft are running called DreamSpark. Basically, it means that their giving away full versions of their developer software, to students (like me :evilgrin: ) completely free. No cost.
The website has a strange URL, but the design is quite funky, it was designed by 9 Star Research, [...]
Changing your Wordpress Admin Username
Changing your Wordpress username to something other than admin is reportedly a good way to help stave off brute force or dictionary attacks, where the hacker already knows your username and is only trying for your password.
It can be done by opening up PHPmyAdmin, going to the users table, and locating the user_login column. If [...]
Digital Point Forums are turning to crap.
I just got banned from DigitalPoint for 7 days. Any explination? God no. Just a link to some page where some aaron nimocks guy said that their banning everyone who makes a slight discression in the BST forum, or people that have in the past. That’s fair, right?
You know what’s also clever? The ban message [...]
