Category Archives: Technology
Recording Good Films
I found out at the weekend that we’re soon to be offered ten days of free viewing of the Film1 film and sport channels as a promotional stunt. Now, I have no interest in the sport channels, but there could … Continue reading
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The Return Of Unauthenticated Commenting
Some time ago, I turned off the ability of unauthenticated users to comment on entries made to this blog. Registered TypeKey users could still comment, but apparently it was too much trouble for a lot of people to register with … Continue reading
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Data Migration
The migration of our blog data from Berkeley DB to MySQL is now complete and the performance of the site has, as expected, improved somewhat. By how much depends on what you’re doing: reading, commenting, searching, etc. I’m sure I’ll … Continue reading
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New Look
Even though it was a slow and painful process (and one I said I wouldn’t bother to endure), I moved the blog over to the latest Movable Type templates in the course of yesterday. The hardest part was getting the … Continue reading
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Site Upgrade
I upgraded the site to Movable Type 3.34 today and installed mod_fcgid, a FastCGI implementation, which should hopefully provide a few performance improvements. I wish it was easier to merge the latest versions of the default templates with my older … Continue reading
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