Jan

27

Weekend Full of WIN!

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Hi everyone – I know its been AAAAAGES since my last post – and for that I do humbly apologise.
This past weekend has been a weekend full of a great deal of WIN! for me. I managed to tick a lot off things off of my to-do list that I’ve been sitting on for [...]

Mar

30

Prepare To Be Updated!

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EDIT: Eureka!  Looks like its worked perfectly!  Will keep an eye on things for a bit to see if anything catches fire though…
Well, after having been using WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 1 for the past week and a bit, it appears that they have now released the real-life ‘gold’ version.
There are some ‘easy [...]

Mar

23

A Major Update

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OK – Its been a couple of days since my last post, but I’ve been a busy little beaver in the background
Some of you may notice that the ‘JumpBox’ header is now gone from the top of the screen – This is because I am no longer using that hideously limited system, and [...]

Mar

17

The more technical details…

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Well, after playing around a hell of a lot more with this thing, I shall enlighten you all on some of the more technical aspects of what I’ve done here…
Firstly, the whole shebang is actually a ‘virtual appliance’ I downloaded from VMware – specifically, Jumpbox with Wordpress v2.3.3. For those unfamiliar with what a [...]

Mar

16

My First Blog

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Well, this is the first time I have ever blogged!
Hard to believe I know, but its true
The main driving force behind all this is that I wanted to set up and host locally a blogging site.
I have chosen WordPress as the software to use, as it seems to be the ’software of choice’ [...]