Trigger Finger

Thanks to a nice bloke called ‘Magnus’ I have been made aware that the commenting system is b0rked with a capital 0. I did think it was strange that there was no comments on anything since April (when we changed to the new look). The problem is that you the commenter should be able to post without being registered, but you supply an email and answer a simple maths question. The problem is that you can’t see the question

Thanks to a nice bloke called ‘Magnus’ I have been made aware that the commenting system is b0rked with a capital 0. I did think it was strange that there was no comments on anything since April (when we changed to the new look). The problem is that you the commenter should be able to post without being registered, but you supply an email and answer a simple maths question. The problem is that you can’t see the maths question which makes providing the answer quite difficult

Soooo, I need to dig into the code and see what the problem is, but in the meantime, if you log in as a registered user you will be able to comment without issue. I have posted Magnus’s comment as myself for now (couldn’t not post it when it was so complimentary )

Thanks for your patience and thanks again Magnus for bringing it to my attention!

UPDATE: The problem is now fixed, but I have had to introduce some stronger spam criteria instead of the maths check. So if your comment doesn’t show up straight away, then it’s in the approval queue and I will approve the genuine comments as quickly as possible. As always the easiest way to hassle free commenting is to register and then most of the checks are removed because I have the added tool of a mighty banhammer

So a lot of the new design is in place, but there is still a lot of more minor tweaking to do. There are a lot of things I like personally about the new look, not least the ease of reading and the clear division between content, the other items such as tags and comments. continue reading »

As always after a move of the site and a redesign I have been paying a little more attention to the stats than usual, as it’s pretty funny to see some of the stuff in there.

To give an idea of scale the site gets about 2500 visitors per day and so is by no means some great revelation in terms of user habits, but still some interesting stuff. continue reading »

Heart Internet in a Nutshell

So yes, another new look and a new opportunity to rant. The rant this time is directed at my old webhost Heart Internet who have displayed some shocking customer service to add to 5 years of very mediocre service and thus finally pushed me to finding a far better host for less money!

So lets take the rants one by one: continue reading »

I have prepared a few things that are covered really badly the general review press recently that are close to fruition.

continue reading »

… the Wordpress application for the iphone works

Just an update for anyone wondering about the lack of activity… I am alive and have 3 articles/posts plus a review of some really outstanding headphones all ‘almost’ completed.

But having just moved house 4 weeks ago and the birth of our first child (a boy!) 3 weeks ago, I hope you all understand it’s family first right now and normal service will be resumed as soon as I get some … zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The old site design didn’t use tags, and because I am lazy bastard I haven’t updated many of the old posts with tags yet. So if you want a more comprehensive list of articles please stick to using the categories for on the left for now and I promise the tags will be all done within a week or two!

Update: I have now updated about the last 18 months of stories!

Yes it started to piss me off too, plus didn’t really fit with the design anymore so we are now a Snap-free site

Over the next hour to two hours things may go crazy as I am upgrading the site. If you hit any issues then please make sure you bookmark us and come back later! Thanks for visiting! UPDATE: Most of the crazy stuff is done now, so things should perform normally. Wordpress is upgraded, new theme , and new banner coming soon. Widgets are a go-go! (i.e. check out things like my flickr feed to the right of the page).

All finished! Hope you like the new look and please feel free to comment on it