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Got Some Flavour For You
Here’s the flavour files and style sheets that I use for this blog. Please note that they have been modified slightly (story.dr especially) since I am using a “custom” version of blosxom, with some...
View ArticleDomain Offline… Again
Up until recently, I would have recommended phpwebhosting.com with flying colours for their fantastic, very cheap web hosting service. Unfortunately, over the last couple weeks, I have had a few days...
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blosxom Plugins Online Again
In case you didn’t notice, all my blosxom plugins are working again! Now that that is taken care of (ended up being a naming conflict within a plugin), I can eventually get around to doing what I had...
View ArticleUCMore At It Again
A couple weeks ago, I realised that the UCMore Toolbar was hitting my website something like 20,000 times a day (based on the User Agent string in my Apache logs). I looked into their site and it looks...
View ArticleTimezone Difference
You may or may not have noticed, but the posting times on this blog have changed recently, because I installed the excellent blosxom timezone plugin, written by Raffi Krikorian. It was wonderfully easy...
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New Web Host Soon
Well, I think I’ve finally outgrown phpwebhosting.com as my host, so I’ve started the process of setting up my new account with DreamHost.com. The reasons that I have decided on DreamHost are along...
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Settling In At DreamHost
Well, things aren’t going too badly with DreamHost, I’m sorting out all my domains and CGI, databases, PHP etc and things are looking good. When I get dentedreality.com.au across, then I will know...
View ArticleNew Section on Site
I wrote up an article/essay which is like an introduction to blogs and blogging, and I needed somewhere to put it on this site, so a new section has been born. Head over to the Feature Articles section...
View ArticleComments Disabled
Well, I’ve had enough of dealing with blog-comment-spam for now, so I’ve decided to disable comments until I can come up with a satisfactory solution. I have 123 blog posts that I’m going to have go...
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Dented Reality v5.0
You’re now looking at (I think) the fifth major revision of this website. It’s been a (long) time coming, but I finally got it online today. I thought it would be fitting. It is a day of change after...
View Article2 New Projects
I forgot to mention that I have 2 relatively new projects launched in the Projects section of this site: TwitterProxy: Which allows you to do some cool filtering on your Twitter status feed (and then...
View ArticleUpdated to WordPress 2.8
I’ve just updated this site to WordPress 2.8, using my favorite method for handling a WordPress install, Subversion. Here’s what I typed at the command line to upgrade: svn switch...
View ArticleSimple Activity Streaming with SimplePie
A few different people have asked me recently how I created the activity stream/life stream you see in the sidebar of Dented Reality. It’s actually really simple, and all it does is load up the feeds...
View ArticleChanges afoot(er)
I’ve been tinkering in the footer of this site a bit, check it out and let me know what you think. Nothing major, but I’ve… Added some shadows to make the footer appear “sunken”, Added some neato...
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dntd.cc URL Shortener Active
Last night I set up my new domain http://dntd.cc (it’s not very exciting if you visit it) to handle all my own URL redirections from now on. I’d been meaning to do this and in light of Tr.im’s imminent...
View ArticleRunning WordPress 3.0 alpha
I’m now running the development version/alpha of WordPress 3.0 on this blog so that I can get a feel for any changes (and fix any bugs!) before the official release. So far so good, the upgrade was...
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New Server @ DreamHost
Apparently I’ve been moved to a new server at DreamHost. Let’s see if that solves any of the performance problems that I’ve been having. I still have an account at MediaTemple that I’m paying for, and...
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Welcome to the new server
I’ve finally gotten around to moving this site (along with all my other random sites) onto a single server. It’s all now hosted at Media Temple, on a 512MB (dv). We’ll see how that goes. I’ve got a...
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A Whole New Dented Reality
Back in April, this blog celebrated 10 years of existence, and it’s been almost five years since the theme on this site changed. Yesterday I decided to just go ahead and flip the switch on something...
View ArticleOne Less Plugin, Thanks Jetpack
As a developer, I’m a huge fan of “red changesets”; when you get to delete more code than you add. Less code means less maintenance, less potential for bugs, security problems, etc. Today I got to “red...
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