Reilly2040's Blog

So, I’ve now been running this blog for over 2 years, so I felt it was time to freshen it up a little.
I really love the Mandigo theme I had been using (and may yet go back to if this theme doesn’t work out). Its got a nice look, and behind-the-scenes its hugely configurable, [...]

 I’ve been using the 2.7 version of Wordpress since it came out, and I’ve been pretty happy with the updates.   Ever since 2.6 there’s been loads of really nice features added that have made maintaining and using the blog a lot easier.
 
So today, when 2.7.1 was released, I was pleased to see that they’ve [...]

Well, last night I decided to muck about with a few things.
A couple of my categories have been bugging me for a while. I always felt the line between the Computing and Technology categories got a bit grey quite a lot. With tagging coming in, I thought the distinction was even less necessary [...]

Well, today is the one year anniversary of my blog. I must admit, I didn’t think I’d stick at it nearly this long.
I’ve been going back through the old posts, and its interesting to watch myself get more used to how things are done with the blog. I’ve got a better grip [...]

Ok, so I’ve been playing with this tagging thing for a week or so now.
I’m still not convinced by it, but that I think is partly because I’m used to just using my categories. I’m trying to ensure that I at least include the categories of a post as tags, but a big problem [...]

Ok, so tagging seems to be the “in-thing” these days with websites.
Since Wordpress added tagging, I’ve been eyeing it suspiciously. What does it offer me that my categories don’t?
Honestly, I’m still not sure, but I’ve decided to try and add some tags to my posts none-the-less. The strategy I’m trying to take is [...]

Okay, I’m just playing around with the look of the blog at the moment.
With Wordpress adding tags a release or two ago, I thought I should start adding them, and by extension, add the tag cloud widget to my sidepanel. However, I’ve also been aware that the length of the sidepanel was increasing, so [...]

Figured out what the problem was. There was an option in my theme to automatically handle long links (that would otherwise stretch the page). Enabling it was what had broken the javascript, which in turn broke anything else on the page which required javascript. Sorted now.
Wasn’t a huge issue, but [...]

Its been bugging me for a while that some of the features of the theme I use haven’t been working on the site. The ability to hide/show the sidebar or individual posts, cheap amongst them.
Well, after viewing the blog in IE, I noticed the javascript error icon coming up when the blog was loaded. [...]

Unfortunately, for reasons I don’t quite understand, my AJAX image enlarger plugin started mucking up today.
I did really like it, but I’d rather have a consistent look for my posts, so I’ve switched it off for now and reverted to HTML links where a larger version of an image is available.