Tag Archives: polytechnic

Upgraded

Drupal 4.6.1 upgrade done, spam filters in place, comments open. Let the fun begin.

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Comments Disabled

I’ve had enough of having to delete comments spams every day (300 today alone), so until I can work out what I’m going to do, comments have been disabled.

If I ever get my hands on a spammer I will eviscerate the fucker where they stand. Slimy, low life, bottom feeding parasites.

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New Toy

Using Recent Tunes and it’s ability to upload via SSH in conjunction with a custom block, et voila! “Listening To”. A rolling list of the last 10 tunes that i’ve been listening to. Now I just need to hack it to insert links to further information.

Update (11th March 2005): I’ve removed the block for the time being. I have a cunning plan.

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Polytechnic Update

You may have a noticed a few little changes have crept into the site over the past few days. Some of the highlights (if you want to call them that):

  • Massive overhaul of links styles to a much more consistent behaviour (this had been bugging me for a while)
  • Some slight modification to header size and page contents. Hopefully making the page a little cleaner
  • Links are back! I decided to go with the separate page and a combination of my del.icio.us feed, the agregator.module and path aliases made that a snap
  • Rescued the (few) articles that I’ve written from taxonomy limbo and given them back their own navigation entry
  • Tidied up the feed block

Things still to do:

  • The pictures page needs some tidying and a link to my raw flickr photostream
  • Could do with some more introductory / explanatory copy
  • Footer is still AWOL
  • I’m happy with the overall look and feel, but I need to do something about the header and main nav. If only so I don’t look like I’ve been ripping Steph off. Total accident I swear!
  • Have to look at the whole taxonomy and the integration of tags (more of an ‘ideal’ rather than a ‘todo’)

As a total aside, I found this nifty iTunes script in MarsEdit’s Script menu you other day. I had no idea it was there. Now I just need to work out how to trigger it’s insertion into a new post automatically.

(Currently playing in iTunes: Vingt à trente mille jours by Francoiz Breut)

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Tiny Fixes

Finally got round to fixing a couple of tiny bugs that have been bothering me for a while.

  • The blogroll content no longer vanishes on random pages. Turns out there was a WHERE clause in the SQL that wanted to match against an id number that isn’t always there.
  • I also took the time to clear out the comment spam from the approval queue and came across a couple of legitimate comments from Martin and Steph. Sorry about that guys, all fixed now.

Not the most interesting post by a long shot, but I had to make a note of them and here seemed the best place.

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