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Well, I may be mad, but I’ve decided to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress - version 2.5! This seems to be a huge step forward from my current version, and I’d love to think everything will “just work”. My biggest concern though, is with the Semiologic theme that I’ve been using. It hasn’t been updated since 27th June 2007 and I have a horrible feeling that my whole design will come crashing round my feet when I try to restart the blog….!
I’m planning to tackle this before the end of the week, so if you visit my blog during this time and it’s down - please come back again!
For my Entrecard advertisers, I’m intending to put up a holding/maintenance page (maybe even a duplicate site), but if I DO cause any significant downtime, I’ll reimburse the people affected with double the credits that they originally paid me for the ad space. That’s fair, isn’t it?
Finally, I’ll post an update here when the upgrade’s in place.
Watch this space……
I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:
- The best blogging techniques.
- How to get traffic to your blog.
- How to turn your blog into money.
I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.
Just a quick note today - I’ve just been alerted to “ClickComments” which is a small widget that enhances the experience of visitors to your blog. You’ll see at the end of each of my posts, there’s now an area where you can click to give visual feedback on the quality of my post..
Please take the time to check this out yourself and let me know if you think it’s valuable.
I recently wrote a simple utility app in C# that really wasn’t very taxing. It’s been working fine and has been really useful for me. However, I went to use it today and it started, appeared in the task bar, but didn’t display a Window! As far as I could make out, it had simply hung for no apparent reason. There were no errors, no exceptions, no excessive CPU usage, no disk thrashing - just no Form!
What on Earth is going on with the Internet at the moment??? I went onto Alexa this morning to make sure my contact details were up-to-date, and saw there a link to AdBrite. I figured that anything recommended so highly by Alexa must be a decent site, so I signed up.
Initially, I was looking to add an additional ad space below the existing Google ads on the left of the page, however AdBrite offers the possibility of including other ad providers (such as Google) and only displaying their own ads if they pay better. So I signed up for this option, as I’d prefer a single ad space to be honest, selected a whole bunch of technology related categories and keywords, and left all the other settings as default. Seems reasonable so far, doesn’t it?
To start with, I got a notice displayed telling me that it was assessing my content to find the most suitable ads for my site so I ignored it. A few hours later, I was telling my wife about it and she asked me to show her. You can imagine my horror to see a 120×600 pixel skyscraper ad displaying a whole host of very graphic porn images!!!
Stupidly, my first reaction was to go to AdBrite’s control panel and try and fix it - although setting “Family Friendly” made no difference (and I wasn’t prepared to wait to see if it eventually did!). My second thought (which SHOULD have been my first) was to quickly cut the code from my page! Of course, I then had to go back to Google and re-create the original ad which had been there in the first place….!
Still, you live and learn - I now understand very well what people mean by “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”! 
