Quadrant IV

I had to change hosts and it became far more complicated than I first thought.  Normal service should have resumed now, and everything should be working.  If not, let me know.

Yesterday was Blog Action Day, a day put aside for participating blogs to post on one particular topic - The Environment.  The idea was one central theme, but handled according to each blogger’s individual style and theme. 
So far I’ve seen posts on recycling notepads, planting trees, turning off computers and influencing ‘green’ political parties.  And [...]

My last post, on the contents of my del.icio.us account, generated Google Ads entirely about cakes and pancakes.  I love it!

Yep, Technorati Part II:
I’ve investigated a little further regarding my problems with Technorati pings, and perhaps it is my lack of tags.  I have found contradictory information on the subject of tagging; some sites suggest that your categories are fine, and others say that tagging is essential for getting picked up.  Since I haven’t been tagging [...]

For a while now, Technorati and I haven’t been seeing eye to eye. I’ll post something, ping Technorati from both the inbuilt Wordpress ping system as well as a manual ping via Technorati’s page, and Technorati will completely ignore me. Sometimes the post shows up hours later, and sometimes it takes days. This also used [...]

After a dramatic night last night, I managed to get both my blogs upgraded to 2.1 Ella. The results so far? Pretty seemless actually. The upgrade went without a hitch (if you don’t include my woefully slow upload speeds making it seem like it went all night) and I really am liking the ability to [...]

I always get a certain thrill out of seeing fellow Australian doing things online.  Face it, we are only ~22 Million people out of billions, and we have a tendency to get lost in the crowd sometimes.  Start thinking closer to home, and the chances of running into someone from the same state is lower [...]