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WordPress Development Blog › 2.0.1 Release Summary of changes: You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not. Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments. Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as…

Ah, payday at last. December’s pay came before Christmas – this has been one hell of a long month. Blogs versus the NY Times in Google Graham Parsnip relaunched in blog form Jody Digger has started blogging recently The winds…

I have now converted this site’s permalinks to a human readable format. This was one of those things I had thought would be really hard, so I kept putting it off. However, in WordPress 2 it’s really easy! Just go…

FeedDemon 2 has a cool little icon on each post you read to link to it in your del.icio.us archive. I’ve actually started to use this now for a few things. Here is the RSS feed, if you are interested.…

Robert Scoble has an old blog hosted at UserLand, or rather had. It’s now gone. Oh, UserLand, where did my old blogs go? Yikes, the first couple of years of my blog are gone. UserLand took down those blogs. I…

Ban Comic Sans grou.ps might be interesting, but is suffering from being dug at the moment. Google’s Anti-Spyware Project Flickr provides an RSS feed for comments on your photos – useful enough, as it means you don’t have to log…

Analyst claims so: “We believe that Google is in the midst of creating its own iTunes competitor, which we’ve dubbed ‘Google Tunes. We think this is a logical step, now that the nascent Google Video product has been introduced.” read…

Plenty going on this morning – Today kept my attention for the whole 2 hour journey… Blair apology to Soham parents Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair has apologised to the parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman for comments…

GPLv4 – just about funny, but even for geek hunour it’s borderline Barwick plans England coach talks – my choice: Guus Hiddinck. The thought that the likes of Curbishley, Allardyce or – God help us – Steve McClaren might get…

Couple of interesting points from MJR: Annoying blog comment misfeatures: letter images Just tried to leave a comment on Sasquach wears a yellow hat at blogger.com – it has one of those annoying “type the letters from the distorted image”…

The Beast – 50 most loathsome Americans, 2005 edition Secret life of Matisse wins Whitbread prize

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran blocks BBC Persian website The Iranian authorities have started to block the BBC’s Persian language internet site, for the first time. The BBC says the level of traffic to the site…

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google censors itself for China This is a very disturbing news story indeed, and is starting to convince me that maybe MJR is right… The company is setting up a new site – Google.cn –…

Performancing: Quick and Easy Blog Improvements Put up a “Post not found” error 404 page – if someone tries to visit a broken link on your blog does the visitor get a nice friendly message or “error 404 file not…

Great article on Google by John Lanchester in the London Review of Books: Google is the only multi-billion-dollar company in the world that is also a spelling mistake. Back in the palaeolithic era (that’s the palaeolithic era in the internet…

A quick note for anyone who uses the Grisoft AVG Free anti-virus package. I tried to run an update this evening which kept failing. I then downloaded the programme and installed it again, and it now works fine. There was…

Things have been pretty quiet over here recently. I guess I have just been concentrating on other things. First up, I have started to host the Impnet forums – a site for fans of Lincoln City Football Club. This has…

Ryan Adams, along with Nick Cave, is just about the only musician whose new releases I bother with these days. I know what I like, alright?! Anyway, here’s a quick round-up of his solo career. I don’t know a lot…

Today we visited Lake Vyrnwy. Around the lake are a load of different trails to walk on, one of which leads to an area full of slightly mental wooden sculptures.See the flickr set for them in their proper sizes. Worth…