Category: Site News

  • Changed Twitter Handle

    For my birthday I thought I’d fix my twitter handle. The old one was a bit fiddly and hard to remember. So the new one is @smallsees  Pretty easy to remember; my surname and my ircname. Sorted, done. Now all I need to do is stop these birthday things.  

  • Odd WordPress pingbacks

    I’m getting some odd log messages for the apache module modsecurity.  Essentially its xml parser is breaking when random places are sending pingbacks. The requests go to xmlrpc.php and the response headers are ok, but the body is binary.  The message in the modsecurity log looks like: Message: XML parser error: XML: Failed parsing document.…

  • Removing itools

    Update: The newer code is now running, though still needs some testing. For very many years I have been running a set of tools on my website that basically runs whois or nslookup queries and presents them in a standard format.  I have decided today to shut this part of the website down as the…

  • Getting around the WordPress "add image" bug

    WordPress currently has an annoying bug where you cannot add images easily using the in-built editor. Instead of a pop-up being shown with the image setting details, you are sent to another page.  Once you choose the image size etc, you go to a blank page. Until that’s fixed, there is a work-around.  It’s not…

  • Updating the website

    I’ve finally got the new website up and running after testing for a while. It has combined the blog and static pages into a single site that hopefully actually works and means I don’t have to worry about compiling a site every time I change something. The blog software has been changed from [movabletype](http://movabletype.org) to…

  • Changing Sites

    While I originally had a blog site on Avogato, I just didnt seem to use it much.  I needed some place that I could put some writing that wasn’t quite up to a new whole page with the associated heavy work to format it but it had to go somewhere. So I’ll try to put…