Strangely Perfect

As well as being true to his words about Guantanamo; we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations – [...]

Chinese Censorship: As part of the BBCs “take” on the international views on the new, 44th President of the United States, their China correspondent Michael Bristow has reported that his inauguration speech was censored in China. Apparently, the English version on the Xinghua News site is okay, but the Chinese version for the locals has [...]

This site has had a bit of a jiggle in the background recently and the most recent thing I’ve done is to adjust the permalink structure to /%post_id%/%postname%/. I’ve done this as I like to put posts into several categories – which would give multiple SEO entries – which is bad.. (don’t tell me to [...]

WordPress installation upgraded today following some security and bug issues. See here. I’ve also updated the Global Translator and Simple Tags plugins on all sites. All sites okay! Both plugins have more options now. The “Global Translator” has four different language translator options now, although I’m sticking with the Google one for now. I previously [...]

I’ve implemented the post updated plugin from http://guff.szub.net onto the Crawling Chaos site and this site again but onto the current templates. I had to change the index and single php files. Also, I’ve whipped out the big RSS feed graphic from the template sidebar php file as it was taking up too much screen [...]

I fucked everything up last night. Fuck knows what happened but when I tried to fix stuff and tried to over-write theme files, they got overwritten – but with no content! So I had a load of 0 kbyte php files for a theme – and also the “function.php” file refused to be overwritten. Bizarre! [...]

Spent most of the last few days mucking around with new hosting setup. The host is okay, I’ve just had a lot of trouble getting slightly more complex things done with the blogs (three going now) due to my lack of knowledge on Unix file systems, permissions etc and not having an easy way to [...]