Wow, for about half an hour I thought I’d totally destroyed my blog. I just upgraded to a new version of Wordpress, and it wasn’t the easiest transition.

During a brief morning web browse I came across this little article about fixing your parents’ computer. I was gratified to see that it recommends my first course of action:
Switch the system’s default web browser to Firefox
Download Firefox. Install it, and import all of IE’s preferences and bookmarks. (See previous Lifehacker feature Importing Bookmarks into [...]

I’ve just upgraded the blog’s spam trap, so the errors some people have complained about should be fixed.

I’ve sorted out my email glitches. My new address is my first name (all in lower case) @junkopia.net. My old clara.co.uk address will be defunct by the end of September at the latest. Cheers all.

I have just broadbanded my parents’ abode in Worcester, and consequently my clara.co.uk email address will expire in the next few weeks. I’ll be changing it, hopefully to something @junkopia.net, but I’ve had a problem setting up the email boxes on my webspace. I’ll post news on here when I get everything set up.

My blog session in the wee hours of the morning cleared my head and sent me back to sleep nicely. Today’s a day off. I had various plans involving DV cameras and movie watching but they’ve all fallen through, so I’m sitting at home researching DV equipment prices and tinkering with the blog. Let me [...]

Today has been comment spam day. I just had to delete about fifty gibberish comments, all linking to an online poker website. Consequently I’ve installed a spam filter. Let me know if your legitimate comments don’t make it past my new security measures.
Coming soon: metal detectors, shoe searches, magic puffer machines which blow your shirt [...]

When my old webhost deleted my entire site all the pictures went too. At Rev. Rehash’s request I’ve restored all the pictures that accompanied my road trip diary. If you’re really that interested, click here to begin at the beginning.

First I changed my webhost, now I’ve changed my blogging tool. I’ve swapped Blogger for Wordpress. Wordpress is the bomb. Wordpress is the new Movable Type. It offers me a lot more control over how things are organised, and now I’ve got proper webspace and a proper website address, I may as well have a [...]

After a second overquota problem from Portland, I’ve decided to cut my losses and change web hosts. I now have a ridiculous amount of webspace, and bandwidth limits I’m in no danger of exceeding.
And it’s a lovely sunny day in California. T-shirt weather already. Here’s a view from our balcony.