Earth: Mostly Harmless

Truncated posts

Truncated..

Ahem.

I realised last night that the hellish import procedure I went through to get my posts out of the old Blogsome site was to some extent in vain.

It turns out that the XSL stylesheet I used to turn the Blogsome Atom feed into RSS 2.0 chose the summary field and not the description field for each item to use as the RSS description.

The practical results of which is that all of my imported posts were truncated to about 300 characters, and links and images were stripped out.

I’m going through all of them gradually putting the needful back in.

Arr.

WP-Cache

I’ve just installed WP-Cache to speed up this site and reduce loading times. I had to customise it to fix a blank-page bug so if you have any problems please contact me (a contact page is coming soon!)

On a related note, there will now only be 5 items on the front page (another loading time measure). Also, you’ll now be able to get 20 items through the RSS feed instead of the previous 10.

New Blog

Hi all,
I’ve decided to go out on my own and set up the old Earth: Mostly Harmless site on this new domain name instead of relying on Blogsome’s free (but limited) hosting.

All posts from the old blog have been moved over - but unfortunately, moving your (very nice) comments over in a simple way wasn’t possible given the constrains of Blogsome - though I’ll continue to investigate ways to do this.

Many thanks to all for making this blog worth writing!

I’m still thinking up things to put here. In the meantime, here’s the best photo ever taken:

Via the K2 website

Clicky clicky!

Note: This was originally posted on an older revision of this blog hosted somewhere else, so it doesn’t make sense in its current context. Just here for completeness.

This weblog is now enabled for Safari-powered blue squidgy address bar RSS button goodness!

Site changes

Note: This was originally posted on an older revision of this blog hosted somewhere else, so it doesn’t make sense in its current context. Just here for completeness.

Hi all, I’m making a few changes to this site, some of which have already been done and the rest of which should be completed over the next few days. I’ve been enjoying having a place to post my thoughts, and though I caught on to the blogging thing quite late on, I think I am getting the hang of it. My site is performing pretty well in terms of hits but I’d ideally like to get a regular readership, and I’ll be publishing more regularly with this in mind. I’ll be posting a little more in terms of personal stuff rather than just comment on technology and politics, and I’m also going to change some of the layout and jiggery-pokery going on in the background to make the site more intuitive. There’s plenty which can be done with WordPress, and other users here on Blogsome are doing great things with the templates and whatnot, so I’ll be making the most of the GPL license and incorporating my own twist on these ideas into the site. Finally, the site name is now ‘Earth: Mostly Harmless’ - partly as it’s a more obvious Douglas Adams reference and secondly so that it doesn’t reflect on me! Because I’m… bad… or something… yes. Questions/comments? Click here to get my email address, or post your thoughts here.

Graeme