Archive for January, 2007

Updating old posts

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Some of you may notice old posts registering in the recent updates list. Don’t panic, this is due to me correcting problems incurred during the import process (when I imported the Textpattern database into Wordpress). Images and such were not being displayed correctly but I am editing them a few at a time so they will all be corrected eventually.

Thursday 13 (25-01-2007)

Thursday, January 25th, 2007


13 reasons Scouser hasn’t done a Thursday 13 for months.

  1. Work, lots of new things happening, release of new games consoles means new products, which in turn means lots of extra work
  2. Illness, since June I have had a major flu virus at least 3 times.
  3. Christmas, we went away for Christmas & I didn’t really have time to access a net terminal.
  4. Designing sites for a couple of bands.
  5. Spam - Using textpattern I found I became a major target for the comment spammers.
  6. Re-design this site, new theme and transport it over to wordpress.
  7. Configure my new server, learn how to use it and then test it with some unimportant stuff prior to transferring everything over.
  8. Transporting all my sites from my old server to my new one.
  9. Blogshares. I spent far too much time playing at this. I feel now that I have over $1.4 trillion the fascination has worn off :-)
  10. Family and other real life matters.
  11. Lack of imagination and planning. I blame this on work.
  12. World Domination plans keep getting in the way. Every time I wanted to post a TT something happened around the world that needed my attention. You just can’t get good reliable henchmen nowadays.
  13. And finally just plain laziness.


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Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Unleashed back in October 2006, Google Docs & Spreadsheets has everybody’s favourite search engine doing battle with the evil that is Micro$oft. With Docs & Spreadsheets users with google accounts can upload or create their own documents or spreadsheets and store them online, share them with friends and colleagues or even download them to their desktop in a variety of formats. Upload / Download formats including Word, OpenOffice & PDF. You can even publish the results to your blog (many of the blog APIs are supported).

Site now using Wordpress

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Ok folks, the site is now on the new server & has been transferred over to Wordpress. As you will no doubt notice, the theme is not quite complete yet but at least it’s nearly there. Also I have installed SK2 (Spam Karma 2) to help combat the spam comments.

Now that my new server is now up and running properly I will be able to dedicate more time to World Domination and I can promise you all that the SPAMMERS will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.