Tag: Blog

  • A blog reboot

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    Simon Scullion
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    It has been over 5 years…!! Is a blog still a thing in 2018? I’ve been feeling a bit of blogging mojo coming back, so dusting of the archives! I’ve done a bit of a cleanup on the backend, cleared out some plugins and re-installed the bare minimum for now. A few minor but important…

  • ScribeFire, Zemanta, and a hidden tracking image

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    Simon Scullion

    Yesterday’s post was created using a is a great add-on for Firefox, ScribeFire, which: is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. However, in making a minor edit to the post, I noticed some code at the bottom: <div class=”zemanta-pixie”><img src=”http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=[long tracking number here]” class=”zemanta-pixie-img”…

  • So, did anyone notice the redesign!?

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    Simon Scullion

    Considering the lack of love I’ve been showing to my own blog, I can’t really expect otherwise! I’d been meaning to do quite a bit of house-keeping for some time. I actually also had a blog over at malapata.com, which I have now imported and redirected here. WordPress made that easy enough. Does anyone have…

  • WordPress upgraded to 2.6

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    Simon Scullion

    Last night I managed to find the 5 minutes I needed to upgrade four WordPress blogs to the newly released version 2.6. Possible thanks to the excellent “one-click” install setup provided by Dreamhost. Very quick and entirely painless, just how upgrades should be! So unfortunately I can’t go into details on how I upgraded, there…

  • Just for posterity

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    Simon Scullion

    I just updated my about page, and cut this section out, as it didn’t feel relevant anymore, though I thought it’d be nice to keep as a reminder of why this all started! Objectives The main aim of this blog – apart from finally registering my domain name – is to give me some focus…

  • Going through a rough patch

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    Simon Scullion

    It happens to all of us from time to time. Relationships suffer their ups and downs, their moments of frustration and happiness. Well here at casa Scullion, we’ve been going through a bit of a rough patch. I seem to be in a bit of a rut, and that is having knock-on effects and taking…