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Comment Email Responder

Is your blog sticky? Would you like your visitors to keep coming back for more? Well, one way to make sure this happens is to respond to the comments they leave on your blog. The question is, how do you make sure they get the… Read more »

I love comments .. I hate Spam

I love when people leave comments to my posts. It provdes a sense of validation, in that someone out there is actually reading my posts, and it also increases the “value” of my blog by creating a conversation rather than a monologue. So I’ve decided… Read more »

Migrated to WordPress 2.1

A new version of WordPress hit the streets yesterday, and I’ve taken the opportunity to upgrade to the shiny, brand-spanking-new version. Upgrade was a doddle and takes the following steps: back up everything deactivate all your plugins overwrite your installation run the upgrade script reactivate… Read more »

Disclosure & Contact

Just put in another couple of static parts of the website. There’s a disclosure policy up on the left hand side and a contact form up. The contact form is implemented using a plugin called PXS Mail Form? which should minimise spam from the website.

Experimenting with tags

Well, I’ve never used Tags before, so I thought I’d give them a try. I’m using Ultimate Tag Warrior which seems to be one of the best and light-weight WordPress plugin around. I’ve added tagging to the posts, a tag list on the left-hand side… Read more »

Joke Search in Firefox

I just completed a Search Plug-in for Firefox. It’s great how extendable the browser is and how easy it is to write add-ons for it. It will eventually appear on the Mycroft page (which offers a number of engines accessible by clicking “Add Engines” in… Read more »