Earth: Mostly Harmless

WordPress 2.0.5

I just upgraded this site to WordPress 2.0.5. Let me notice if anything works/looks screwy.

Cheers all.

Updated ‘About’ page

Hi all,
I’ve updated my ‘About’ page to inform, educate and assist the process of identity theft.

There’s also now a short clip of the Hitchhikers’ Guide to explain the name of the weblog. Check it out. But don’t sue me.

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.

Site moved!

Phew…

This site is now hosted by DreamHost. The move went very smoothly - and everything’s working now, including nice permalinks!

It should load a bit faster now too.