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I know that you can’t really tell by looking at it but I upgraded my Wordpress installation to version 2.5.1 over the weekend. I used the excellent Automatic upgrade plugin as found here:
I had no problems with the upgrade process at all.
The onmy thing that I have noticed is that the OpenID plugin has stopped working, I’m the only one using it at the moment so I have disabled it for the moment until I get a chance to investigate it.
In creating this post I have noticed that my Flickr and Photo Dropper plugins are also not working. 
photo credit: pbo31
I recieved an e-mail from PlusNet the other day informing me that my site had exceeded it’s traffic allocation.
I should have known better, I had not even investigated what the limit was until that point!
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I have found myself using Google Documents more and more over the last few months.
One of the areas that was severely lacking was the ability to share parts of that content.
That is all changed now with Google Gadgets.
For example, for my training I had resorted to n HTML table on my training page http://www.rossgoodman.com/fundraising/training/ whilst not difficult it is not exactly elegant.
Now I am recording my times in a Google spreadsheet and using two gadgets, one to show a tabular list if the data and another to show an interactive time series chart, the same as is used on google finance.
Cool Huh !
photo credit: Yelnoc
I have had my first request for a guest author !
Ryan. one of my colleagues from Eclectic, or should that be Maxima now, has asked if he can use my blog to share some of his wisdom.
Look forward to seeing some articles from him in the near future !
I treated myself to an external flash for my camera, specifically a Nikon SB-800.
This allows me to play around with having the flash off camera. Mucking around produced the photo above, which also gives a sneak preview to the “face fungus” which I am currently cultivating.
As you may or may not know, i love the concept of openid which allows you to have a single authorisation location for multiple sites (including this blog). It also allows you to have a single profile page. It has just scared me the number of places where my profile photo may be, I’m going to spend the next hour seeing how many places I have put it!
OK, in 1 hour I have found 16 discrete sites, and I have not even started with the forums that I frequent !
Red letter day for me ! (I’m easily pleased)
This site has been intermittently peaking at just under 100 visits per day.
Today it crossed the threshold, yipee !
Info supplied by the fantastic WordPress.com stats plugin.
I first heard of OpenID ages ago.
You can read more about it here
I have now added a plugin that makes this site OpenID aware.
If you have an openID then feel free to use that to sign up, otherwise you can continue to use standard user names and passwords.
The list of other sites that use OpenID is growing here, long may it continue to grow !
I got some time to spend on this site this evening.
The most obvious change is the visible one, I have changed the theme to the Mogle theme, I like the three column layout better than the old two column layout. I also prefer the black, white and orange scheme.
The next visible change is the addition of the Subscribe2 plugin. If you register as a user of this site you can receive an e-mail alert when new posts are made. Alternatively you can just stick with the RSS feeds. There are made more prominent by this theme as well.
The last change is the addition of the Wordpress.com Stats plugin which will allow me to see how many visitors I get.
Took me ages to work it out. Normally when I post to my site it updates my Twitter.
I had changed my Twitter password and forgot to update it here.
Numptie
I’m not sure that I “beleive” in the whole Web 2.0 social everything hype; but I’m not shy to try things.
I’m currently investigating FaceBook and Twitter.
If everything goes to plan then creating this page should appear in my Twitter.
Here Goes !
I have created the page http://www.rossgoodman.com/social-networking/ to track my progress. Read the rest of this entry »
