As an experiment I've added "Add to Any" links to this blog. I don't know if it's any real use. It does increase the pages render time quite a bit so I may take it away if I can't see any benefit of it.
I've turned on my experimental combined RSS feed planetajt.rss. I've yet to properly validate it or feed it into any other site, probably just Planet HantsLUG but so far so good. It combines my three blogs into one single feed and is at the moment updated daily.
I've decided to combine my various blog feeds with modified version of perlanet to create a single RSS feed. I'll probably run perlanet from a cron job and simply create a static xml file(s) with the corresponding feed in it as that's the simplest solution.
It's a done deal, my production server has been refreshed and my home server is now in the process of shutting down!
Unless something unexpected comes up I plan to shut this site and blog down, moving everything over to my hosted server at the weekend. The new site is now 95% done, with just a few cosmetic tweaks left. This blog will move over at the same time. Shortly after that this server will be replaced with my shiny new one.
It's been a long time coming, but I'm eventually getting round to my site redesign. This site and my production site will merge into a single entity on the ByteMark server. This blog will transfer from the current server to the new one once most of the site has been done.
At the same time the server this site is on will be decommissioned as my newly purchased DNUK server comes on-line to replace it. To simplify things, I won't be running a publicly accessible web server from the new home server, all my public web hosting will take place on the ByteMark server.
I've got a lot of stuff to do this year. Some of it will be fun, some of it will be expensive, and some of it just needs to be done.
Last week I took ownership of a nice new Bytemark server. My previous hosting arrangement was a virtual web server over which I had little control. By paying a little extra I get a virtual server that I have total control as if it were a real dedicated server.
It is going to take a while but I plan to design a new site that takes elements from both of my sites, my hosted one and my self hosted one. This will mean that this blog will move to the new server sometime in the next few months.
Other than planning nothing much has really happened since I switched server. I do now control and filter all my own email, which means that I've been able to tweak the settings a little better and got the number of emails in my spam folder down from 400-500 per day to around 50-60 and the number that reach my in-box daily from a dozen or so down to one or two.
By default Blosxom doesn't publish RSS feeds with a <pubDate> in them. This makes using the RSS feeds from Blosxom a bit difficult. A fellow Hants-LUGer has published a simple hack pubDate which fixes the problem.
This is really useful, and means that the this RSS feed can now be used at planet hantslug.
Today I discovered that a fellow Hants-LUGer is using Blosxom for his journal Linuxlore. I had no sooner sent him an email to ask about his implementation of RSS feeds, than I spotted an article about Blosxom on NewsForge: Blogging with Blosxom.
My Local
So if you want to know what people in the Hampshire LUG are up to go here and have a look.
After a long hiatus we are now actually using Blosxom properly at work. The new boss has been very supportive, and co-operative, so we have actually got content for the "Diary of Success". It's not that his predecessor wasn't supportive, rather the take-over distracted him somewhat.
It's a small step but it's free and open-source, and it's very visible on the company Intranet. I also got a signature for 10 Red Hat Enterprise ES Linux licences today, so that's also good. I'd prefer Debian, but any version of Linux is easier to work with than Windows...
Nearly a year ago I developed a Blosxom blog for a project at work. Events prevented it from being launched, so it sat idle, in a corner of the intranet gathering dust. This week I opened my mouth, and the new boss wants it properly launched, so I've been brushing dust of the xhtml/css to make it fit the new corporate colours.
For the past year or so I've been reading new stories on various web sites*. After a while, every story reinforces my own perception that Microsoft Windows is a pile of useless poo, and that Unix in particular Linux is the only logical way forward.
There are days that I worry that if you only listen to the voices that agree with your own opinion, that you will come horribly unstuck. Then I remember that I am forced to run Windows at work and it is a pile of steaming poo.
* These sites:
This weekend I added a search this site with Google page to my site. It took a while to add, owing to a typo, and a great deal of confusion about HTML::TreeBuilder. Anyhow it's all fixed up now, and I must remember that dyslexia is usually the cause of my code not working, and not a bug in someone else's code...
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