I can't be the only one to have noticed this, but it appears www.satopsites.com and www.blogtopsites.co.za have gone AWOL. First www.blogtopsites.co.za disappeared about 2 weeks ago and now today www.satopsites.com has stopped responding. Both have disappeared without any warning. Anyone know what's happened?
Not too long ago I registered my two blogs with Amatomu - a South African blog portal run by the Mail & Guardian newspaper, that attempts to correlate and link to as many South African blogs as possible. If you've got an interest in what other SA blogs have to say, it's worth a peruse.
For the past few months there has been a lot of hype about a new "social browser" coming onto the scenes. This is Flock and it's based on Firefox. I'm a big fan of Firefox and like to be on the cutting edge and test all the beta releases, so I signed up to be notified when Flock was made …
Welcome to Col's Weblog Version 3.0. As you can see, we've got a whole new colour scheme, a slightly wider layout and way more functionality. If you're curious, it's all based off the K2 theme for Wordpress with my gallery using code from the Falbum plugin - I've modified both of these quite extensively to suit my needs.
Well, it seems I was wrong about disabling WP-Hashcash - it seems this isn't what has caused my rapid increase of spam. So I've installed the Bad Behaviour plugin to see if that makes any difference. I'll watch the logs for a few days.
Word of warning... if you're using the WP-Hashcash plugin - don't disable it and leave it disabled for too long. Comment spam suddenly goes through the roof. I disabled it with the intention of tidying up my plugins... bad idea. It's back on an updated to v2.3 too.
Update: I've disabled this again as it's made no difference.
This morning I woke up a little earlier than expected and plonked by butt before the computer. I was reading through my list of most commonly read blogs, when I discovered that Michael over at BinaryBonsai had released the first beta of his new theme, K2, into the wild. So I thought, hell, why not. I already use a very …
In an effort to find some South African blogs, I stumbled upon a very good one - Jo'blog. Well, I've got a lot of catching up to do as these guys blog like it's going out of fashion. This morning, I was trawling through their archives and stumbled upon One Find Day at the Office.... This has a Google Map …
If you've got a WAP phone, you're in luck... just because I'm working this weekend and felt kind of geeky, I added WAP support to my site. To keeps things quick and simple, it only shows the last 5 entries and their comments, but no images.
If you want to view my ramblings from your phone, point it to http://colinseymour.co.uk/wap/ and…
I use WordPress to pretty much run most of this site. One of this things I've been doing for static pages, like my archives, gallery and colophon, is create a new PHP file, include the header and footer code from WordPress and then fill in my own content in the middle. This works, but is a bit of a pain …
