Fri, 26th Feb 2010 by Alfie.

Welcome to another major site update.

A friend asked me if I could put an RSS feed on my site, so I set one up manually.  He then mentioned it would be good to have a comments system as well. I checked out my host’s site to see what I could cook up, but rather than manually build something with the minimal CGI on my package, or upgrade to some heavier grade hosting with full CGI/PHP, I found out that my host provides WordPress!

So, I have finally been dragged kicking and screaming into the fully Web 2.0 world with a blog. The WordPress implementation isn’t as customisable as I’d like, but does provide all the ‘pretty’ features and beats running my own server.

I will migrate across as much of the original content as possible, but I cannot  have both old and new on one domain for some reason

Enjoy

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Wed, 24th Feb 2010 by Alfie.

By popular demand (of at least one person!) I have added an RSS feed to the site.

I hadn’t bothered previously as updates were few and far between, but now I seem to be averaging 3 updates a month it might actually be worthwhile

Update: and within minutes I’ve been syndicated on LiveJournal!

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Mon, 22nd Feb 2010 by Alfie.

Since 9/11 we’ve often had ‘threat levels’ mentioned in the news, but what are the actual threat levels around the world?

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threat and have raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to a “Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was during the great fire of 1666.

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