My Tweets for the week 2010-01-09

by Ian Posted on January 9, 2010
  • @WesWyatt If you use Feedburner for your feeds then Feedsmith by Feedburner http://bit.ly/A1Q1T #BestWPPlugins #
  • @WesWyatt Google XML Sitemaps http://bit.ly/15XB4 #BestWPPlugins #
  • @WesWyatt Subscribe to Comments http://bit.ly/14bni #BestWPPlugins #
  • @WesWyatt Twitter Tools http://bit.ly/bt6GV #BestWPPlugins #
  • @WesWyatt For making your blog accessible from mobile browsers WordPress Mobile Edition http://bit.ly/bQycZ #BestWPPlugins #
  • Snowing in Dunstable #uksnow LU6 2/10 #
  • Snow getting a bit heavier #uksnow LU6 4/10 #
  • Light snow falling in Dunstable again this morning #uksnow LU6 3/10 About 2 inches on ground. Manshead School already closed. Off to work. #
  • Left work early today to avoid the #uksnow that had been falling. Back in Dunstable now after a few hairy moments. #
  • Schools using schools.ik.org for their websites had problems posting closure updates when the webservers crashed. Sites are still slow now. #
  • Watling Lower School have a new website http://bit.ly/4qEnkY which has remained available this week School is closed tomorrow due to weather #
  • Ashton Middle School in Dunstable is open today, 8th January. Watling Lower School is closed. Manshead Upper School are expecting to be open #
  • Accident southbound on A5 in MK. South of A422. Traffic slow southbound #
  • A5 northbound from Dunstable to Milton Keynes fairly clear and free flowing. MK roads are bad as usual. #
  • Dunstable Music Centre closed tomorrow due to the weather. #
  • Snowing in Dunstable #uksnow LU6 1/10 #
  • Snow in Dunstable now stopped #uksnow #

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My Tweets for the week 2010-01-02

by Ian Posted on January 2, 2010

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.9

by Ian Posted on December 31, 2009

Like a lot of other people, I came across a problem when trying to automatically upgrade my blogs to WordPress 2.9. My web host is 1and1 and the database that I had my blog in was a MySQL 4 database, specifically 4.0.27. The problem is, WordPress 2.9 needs 4.1.2 or 5 (I know its in the requirements, but I didn’t read them I just hit ‘upgrade automatically’). After finding this post by Don Campbell, What I Learned Upgrading to WordPress 2.9, I knew my best option was to change my database to a MySQL 5 one. Unfortunately, although I have two databases available to me on my hosting package, but I was using both and both were MySQL 4.

I checked all the applications I had using the database (PhpGedView, Gallery and phpBB) to confirm they were all able to work with MySQL 5, and found they were. That’s a good start! I already knew WordPress was OK, so I set about exporting the tables for each of my blogs and applications to file ready to import into another database. The tables for Firestats were the largest and a couple of them had to be exported individually, otherwise phpAdmin choked.

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My Tweets for the week 2009-12-27

by Ian Posted on December 27, 2009
  • Snowing in Dunstable and MK, took 1.75 hr to drive back from shopping in MK. Light but constant #uksnow 5/10 LU6 #
  • Tried to upgrade test blog to WordPress 2.9. Needs MySQL 4.1.2; my hosting isn’t that version yet. Can take to 5 but check all apps work 1st #
  • Ford has agreed the terms of the sale of its Swedish business, Volvo Cars, to China’s Geely. http://bit.ly/7hAd6X #
  • Emily Smith on BBC One Scotland’s ‘Hogmanay Live’ on Dec 31st 23:45 – 00:45 http://bit.ly/7ApZql (VirginMedia channel 862) #
  • Just finished playing scrabble with the kids. 🙁 I lost! I had a run of only vowels and nowhere to put them. Out of practice #
  • Google are giving £12.4 million ($20 million) to charity this Christmas. http://bit.ly/8XqnwB No matter what you think of them, that’s great #
  • On second thoughts, picking up the coffee jar by the lid and finding the lid only partially on wasn’t such a good idea. Enough left for cup. #
  • Merry Christmas everyone #
  • Despite not mentioning it before, my daughter loves her GoGo Hampster Pipspeak. It was evidently the one she wanted out of all of them. #
  • The Nintendo Wii was a great hit. Will be playing it later today. #

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My Tweets for the week 2009-12-20

by Ian Posted on December 20, 2009
  • Back from the Governors' Merit Assembly this morning. The recorder group that I run on a Friday played really well. Their effort payed off. #
  • It was frosty out this morning when I looked at 6:00am. Sometime since it has snowed in Dunstable, only a light dusting. #
  • @gvvaughan Didn't last long then it melted. Just cold, 0C now. Maybe due some sleet and snow later. Thu – Sat could be more, brrr in reply to gvvaughan #
  • Snowing again in Dunstable, maybe its sleet. Whichever, its cold out there! #
  • Watching the cars wheel spinning on road next to mine #
  • No internet. Virginmedia will fix by 10am tommorow. 🙁 #
  • Internet came back this morning about 1am #
  • #uksnow settled in Dunstable this morning, about 2 inches from the look. No reports of the schools closed, but it is the last day anyway #
  • Watling Lower, Ashton Middle and Manshead Upper Schools in Dunstable closed for the day due to #uksnow. #
  • Journey from Dunstable to Milton Keynes on A5 was fine this morning. No impact from #uksnow #
  • Spammers have found an album on my photo gallery that they have delugued with spam. It filled my hosted database and killed my blogs. Aaargh #
  • Shopping in MK. Quiet for last weekend before Xmas #
  • Can't believe how stupid some drivers are. 'I can't get traction – let's put my foot to the floor and spin the wheels even more' #uksnow #
  • Traffic southbound into Dunstable very slow. 30 minutes from Tilsworth to the fire station. #

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