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404: Post not found

Ben pointed out to me that last post was the four hundred and third (Forbidden) post, so I thought I’d actually announce this one as the post which was not found, for no reason other than that it’s the four hundred and fourth post on this website.

The post you were looking for does not exist. Please try using the search facility provided on this website, or, alternatively, go back to reading the weblog normally and just pretend you never read this, because it’s utterly meaningless…

WordPress 1.5

I’ve finally shifted this weblog across to the most excellent WordPress 1.5, which means I can now use my own DashLite, as well as improved themes management (which I’ve unceremoniously trampled upon to keep this current behemoth working quickly), spam combatting features, and slightly-more-than-rudimentary content management capabilities.

I was hoping to release a new theme with this upgrade, but whilst I’m keen on procrastinating, I’d really rather not fail my exams tomorrow and the subsequent day… maybe later this week.

Ten minutes later: Stuff it. I’ve banged in the theme I was planning to base the new one on, coz it’s just so cool I couldn’t leave it a moment longer! Full credit, of course, to Chris Lin. I’ll be making bits and pieces different so it’s not just a stock theme, but I felt like a change and hadn’t had time to whip up something of my own, so this’ll do for the time being (plus it’s sexy!)

Graveyard retired

Some more attentive regulars (who don’t just peruse this website by means of syndication) may have noticed the disappearance of a link in the top bar in the last several hours. This is because I’ve finally got all the old content into WordPress, with no small amount of assistance from Michael, under a category called “Before WordPress” (this post is categorised similarly, and shall likely be the last ever entry into that category).

Practically, this means that that content is using semantically better markup, has better meta information for search engines, and is internally searchable, using the WordPress search function (it wasn’t before).

For most regulars, this probably doesn’t mean much, but the old articles attract the most search engine traffic, so this’ll be of benefit to people finding relevant content, at least, because the old script could be somewhat retarded in the way it was indexed, as there was no formal permalink structure, just a bunch of loose query strings, which search engines didn’t like.

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Torvalds: Dump the Penguin

Linux Online – News: Torvalds: Dump the Penguin

Hehehehe. Via CNET News.com

Modern History notes, Germany post-World War 1, points 1 and 2

Notes as per the title of this post, for the first two bullet points of the Board of Studies (NSW, Australia) syllabus covering Germany post-World War 1.

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