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Discontinuation of Email Service

73 words posted by Simon on 30 June 2007

As of yesterday, I’ve withdrawn this site’s “Subscribe by Email” option. The system needed a radical overhaul, and with the user numbers of this system dwindling thanks to the increasing popularity of RSS, I decided it was easier to just withdraw the service. All users of the old service have been contacted, and given information on alternatives – if you haven’t heard, you’re not affected.

Email notification of new comments is still available.

This post was filed under: Notes, Site Updates.

WordPress 2.2.1

19 words posted by Simon on 27 June 2007

This blog is now running WordPress 2.2.1. Thanks to Mark, as ever, for the useful Changed Files ZIP 😉

This post was filed under: Notes, Site Updates.

Room for improvement on disability services

26 words posted by Simon on 25 June 2007

I’ve just published Room for improvement on disability services over on Gazette Communities. It’s not my best piece ever, but it is brand new, as promised.

This post was filed under: Notes, Writing Elsewhere.

Correction regarding comments

76 words posted by Simon on 23 June 2007

For a short time yesterday, the site decreed that almost all the comments on the site were from me. This wasn’t because I’d developed a multiple personality, it was because I misplaced an exclamation mark in some of the coding behind the site, and then didn’t notice for a little while. I don’t know if anyone noticed, but this is just a quick note to apologise to those who did. All comments are now attributed correctly.

This post was filed under: Corrections, Notes, Site Updates.

HIV: A justifiable cause du jour?

45 words posted by Simon on 18 June 2007

I’ve just posted HIV: A justifiable cause du jour? on Gazette Communities. You’ll note that it bears some resemblance to this post from last year, which I felt was still very relevant, and could do with another airing. Next week’s contribution will be entirely fresh.

This post was filed under: Notes, Writing Elsewhere.

‘Why I’m proud to study on Teesside’

13 words posted by Simon on 11 June 2007

I’ve just posted Why I’m proud to study on Teesside on Gazette Communities.

This post was filed under: Notes, Writing Elsewhere.

Sorry for not keeping up!

56 words posted by Simon on 5 June 2007

Sorry to all of you who’ve posted comments recently that I’ve not yet had chance to respond to. I do read all comments that come in (yep, even the really long ones), and I try my best to respond to most of them – I’ve just got a little bit behind recently. I will try harder.

This post was filed under: Notes, Site Updates.

Planned maintenance downtime

38 words posted by Simon on 20 May 2007

Just to let you know, the site will be down for a little while from 7am UK time tomorrow (21st May) while a server upgrade takes place. The site should be back shortly afterwards. Sorry for any inconvenience.

This post was filed under: Notes, Site Updates.

‘Neighbours’ moves to Five

39 words posted by Simon on 18 May 2007

Daytime soap Neighbours is moving from BBC One to Five – Quite a coup for the latter. But when I posted about this a while back, Lawrence reckoned it’d lose a lot of viewers if this happened. Will it?