Kirk M on January 27th, 2008

Ah, the weirdness never ends does it. After troubleshooting a very weird problem for a friend of mine on her WordPress install I came back to my fine running install only to find strange unexplained SQL errors in my error log. On top of that I seemed to have spam comments entered into the error [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on November 14th, 2007

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on October 28th, 2007

Just when you think everything is going smoothly you find out something is awry and today when I checked my Dashboard I noticed I had a few new incoming links displayed in Google’s Blog search box as well as Technorati’s. So what the hell happened to the trackbacks that were supposed to be there.
Aaarrrgh!
Seems that [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on October 5th, 2007

Alrighty then. After backing up my database, theme, plugins and all sorts of other crap, starting with a brand new fresh WP install, importing my database, reinstalling all my plugins, setting up this that and the other thing…
(deep breath)
…my beloved ol’ blog is back up and running full steam and (so far) the problems [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on September 11th, 2007

Back on the 6th of this month, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger put up a video giving a tour of his “ProBlogger’s Headquarters” and invited others to respond by putting up their own picture or video of their blogging setup. So far their have been nearly 100 comments on this one post of his and many [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on August 31st, 2007

True confession time here. After all, it’s always good to know one’s limitations don’t you think? And this one pertains to my personal blogging effort here and my largest associated fault which is…
I’m too technically oriented.
No, I don’t mean in my writing style which is haphazard as my subjects are but rather my overall nature [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on August 30th, 2007

Well, guess I won’t have to start fresh after all. Although comments posting and the page not refreshing is still happening on and off and neither my host nor myself can find a reason for it. So after dealing with this for most of the day I figure it’s enough.
Let the site ride, I say. [...] Read more »

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The mail came in the other day and with it came the renewal notice for my blog’s domain name. Hard to believe it’s that time already and I’ve been banging away at this iteration of my blog for nearly a year now. Seems like I’m still starting out in a lot of ways.
So what have [...] Read more »

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