Brief Notes
Sorry for the lack of posts over the last few days (I really have failed that Blog365 challenge, haven’t I?) but I was working over the weekend and didn’t really spend too much time in front of the screen for most of the last five or six days. Also, I think I’m going through one of those periods where nothing is really flagging up as being worthy of spending the time to write about; I find that I’m not one of those bloggers who can just sit in front of the machine and write – I have to have something that I want to say, or a news story I want to comment on. So this is just going to be another in my series of Brief Notes posts.
1. Ozh has updated his updated Absolute Comments plug-in, which caused me some confusion for a while. In version 2.1, he’s created a separate my_options.php file for holding some of the user settings (they used to be in the main file). Initially, I thought he’d dropped support for threaded comments, but then after checking out his website I realised what he’d done. If you don’t use this plug in already, check it out – it makes replying to comments on your blog so much easier.
2. In related news, WordPress 2.5 continues to be rather underwhelming. It’s not causing any problems for The New Wolfs Howl, but I haven’t really come across any of the new features that were so trumpeted at the launch. But it seems to be stable, which is good.
3. We’re coming towards the end of the football season. Eastbourne Borough have two away games left to play, and it’s tight at the top of the table. Only one point behind leaders Lewes (but they’ve got two games in hand), it is mathematically possible for us to win the league. Of course, we need Lewes to do quite badly in their last four games and I’m not sure that’s going to happen. But if we don’t win, we’ll get a play off position so will still have a promotion chance.
4. I’ve been listening to a lot of internet radio recently – specifically, Virgin Radio Classic Rock. It’s old school rock (with some grunge thrown in every now and again – be warned) and has just played me Radar Love followed by Queen’s You’re My best Friend. If you ever listened to a radio show hosted by Tommy Vance, then you should really check it out.
Another Wordpress plug-in
There are all sorts of Wordpress plug-ins out there; some make you wonder what the person who wrote it was thinking, others are indispensable, must-have pieces of code. Then there’s a third group, those ones that you look at and initially aren’t sure about but when you actually start using them you realise that they could be really good.
Such a one is WP Auctions, which basically lets you turn your blog into your very own eBay just by adding a widget to your sidebar. No fees to pay, so you can list as many items as you like as often as you like. If you’ve got a bunch of stuff cluttering up the garage, why not install WP Auctions and see what happens?
But it’s not just your unwanted clutter that you can offer on WP Auctions; why not offer your expertise to others? For instance, if you know a lot about CSS and web design, you could offer that to your readers. Or typing services. Or anything intangible that you know how to do and which other people would pay you for. The only limit is your morality (and perhaps the law…)
I’ve started using this widget today and there’s a couple of auctions running in the sidebar for you to check out.
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