- How to Make Wikipedia better
- Deliciousing – Scoble wonders how to use del.icio.us best. I had a think. Why not post anything you find interesting to del.icio.us, then later on, review them and post the best of the bunch on your blog? I might try this out tomorrow.
- Microsoft backs off on blog censorship
- Introduction to RSS
- By popular demand, Parsnip now has a forum.
Links 1/2/06
Pinch, punch, first of the month.
- Seamonkey released
- The one that got away – Philip Cowley on Blair’s defeats last night. Mr Cowley was my tutor at university in Hull.
- How to Manage Your Draft Blog Posts
- Council mumbles Microsoft benefits
- GeoURL – websites near me
- £9m Technology Breakthrough – more government IT waste
WordPress Upgrade Available
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 well.
- XML-RPC uploading works.
- Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
- Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
- Imports now use much less memory.
- Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.
Links 31/1/06
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 of change are blowing – the interesting Office Weblog is moving
- Home Page Goals
- Peter Dawson’s Naked Conversations Project
- Suprglu is quite interesting. It allows you to cobble together all of your RSS generating online content: del.icio.us, flickr, blogs, etc etc. Here’s mine.
Readable Permalinks
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 to the Options tab and choose the Permalinks subtab. There are a list of common options – I chose the Date and Name based one. Then hit Update Permalink structure and it saves and produces a text box on the screen with some code in it. This needs to be copied into a file called .htaccess which should be in your blog’s root folder. You may have to create this file. Save that, and you are away!
Don’t worry about links to your posts that exist which point to the old numeric style URLs – these still work!