Finally I got that difficult first post out of the way on my Microsoft blog.
I had to choose between MSDN or TechNet for the hosting; as my focus isn’t the developer audience (Phew!) I chose TechNet, which is targeting the IT Professional.
I’m still using Windows Live Writer to post – that does make offline creation of content a lot easier. It’s also good having the blogging environment setup, hosted and managed by someone else.
My posts were finally removed from Novell Cool Blogs.
Sad – they could have been kept for reference rather than being swept down the memory hole. I also noticed that several of the other ex-Novell Cool Bloggers – Reverend Ted for example – have also been purged.
Most of my posts are still here on this blog. Look for the coolblogs tag.
Two APC Smart-UPS 1400XL mounted in the bottom of the rack. I lost 6U but I gained clean, clean power and over 17 minutes of on-battery power.
Next step – install the power monitoring software, set up power outage alerts (3 AM SMS telling me the power cycled..) and the shutdown policies for extended outages.
I didn’t think I’d be hacking WordPress as much as in the past 🙂
I upgraded my sisters blog to WordPress 2.5.1 and ran into two issues that required hacking:
– user password reset is broken
Here’s the issue http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172820 and here is the temporary fix: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6842
– header injection problem when using wp_redirect with enumerated PHP code in pages
Here’s my fix: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/179091
Another useful evening looking at PHP..
I manage and host my sisters Cub Scout pack website.
Today was tidy up time during lunch; sadly the site hasn’t been updated in a long time – it was running an old, old version of WordPress, Gallery 2 and lots of pre-release plugins.
I am in the process of replacing all of my hand-crafted PHP hacks with plugins; some are off the shelf; others I am hacking (converting my direct hacks into plugins).
I really like the BM Custom Login plugin from Ben Gillbanks – he’s the same guy that made the Regulus theme.
I’m testing out the Microsoft Connector bus for my commute – I figure an hour of listening to podcasts, audiobooks or music combined with blogging and email could be more productive, less costly – and certainly greener – than driving.
Music for the commute today:
Ting Tings, Goldfrapp, T-Rex, Noah and the Whale, British Sea Power.
I’ve almost been here for three months; time to unwrap the blogging.
I’ve got a couple of really marketing-centric videos up on Edge; I’ll post the links later.
Google gets to handle the spam. There’s a lot of it.
Here’s my overnight spam count:
Ouch.
The power dropped for a second or two this morning; a good test for the Uninterruptible Power Supplies that are keeping the servers safe.
Everything worked perfectly; I need to add the Vonage box to the UPS power too – the only thing that went out was the phone.
I finally got round to building my lab servers in my office.
It’s certainly different using Microsoft Virtual Server and System Center Virtual Management Manager.
I’m scratching around for a 64 bit, Hyper-V capable server now.
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