I’m so sick of commercial websites hotlinking my stuff without permission, credit or a link back to this site that I’ve finally done something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I changed the hotlinked image. That’s what’s currently appearing on the First Draft website. I’m not going to give them a pingback to … Read more
I’ve been having some issues with my header art since I put it up there. It was jumping around all over the place depending on browser and computer.
Photo owned by danksy (cc) Anthony Baggett, the developer of my lovely Darkwater WP theme, has had one of his themes ripped off by none other than Gordon Brown, Prime Minister. If you look at the bottom of my blog you’ll see a link to Anthony’s website. This is part of the Creative Commons 3.0 … Read more
Photo owned by Conor Lawless (cc) Two Galway-related blogs I’ve only just come across are the Moore Group‘s and Julian Gough‘s. They’ve both been around for a while by the looks of it but I only found the Moore Group’s one from a trackback on Damien‘s, which led me to Julian’s. Both subscribed to now. … Read more
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and it seems to have gone ok. If you’re running an earlier version you should update now because many blogs running earlier versions are getting hacked. My host Blacknight has a nice server side installer called Installatron, which made backing up and installing very easy. As for the decor: … Read more
Apparently Matt Buck had this animation out within minutes of Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday. As a cartoonist I find that fascinating: the internet and specifically blogging have condensed the reaction time to events even for political cartoonists. And it’s no mean feat either, it’s a full-on flash animation rather than a static image. Great, more … Read more