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I’m still here

Nic — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:58:55 +0000

Sorry about the recent downtime, my host appears to have had some major problems, and when they finally did bring the server back online it had a new IP address, so I had to update my name servers, blah blah blah.

And to make matters worst for me, this all happened last week whilst I was away at Microsoft’s UK Techdays event in London. Anyway, my host’s server problem now seem to be stabilising, so hopefully no more downtime (but don’t hold your breath)

Happy New Year

Nic — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:20 +0000

I know I have been quiet lately, but I think my blog posting hasn’t been too bad in 2009. So my aim this year, is to be just as good (hopefully better, but you don’t want to set your goals too high!)

Hope everyone who reads this (and who knows me) has a great 2010!

Holiday Time

Nic — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:36:39 +0000

Well first of all I better apologise for the lack of updates recently, the first reason is my laziness, and the second is the fact I have been away on holiday (vacation). Anyway, I will try and get back into the swing of things over the following few months, and then before we know it, it will be Christmas

In the meantime here are a few holiday photo’s (from the North East of England) for those who are interested.

Site upgrade

Nic — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:49:04 +0000

I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.8. I tried the ‘Upgrade Automatically’ button, but guess what, it failed

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.zip
Unpacking the core update
Could not copy file: /wordpress/wp-content/upgrade/core/wordpress/wp-comments-post.php
Installation Failed

So I had to do it manually… At least everything appears to be working now, if you notice any problems, then please let me know.

Downtime

Nic — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:49:04 +0000

Apparently my site has been suffering with some downtime lately, this has now been tracked down to a problem on one of my hosts servers, they have now moved my site to a new server and DNS should finalise by 3rd June.

Mark’s Stag Day

Nic — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:53:58 +0000

Just got back from a great weekend in Bournemouth. Saturday afternoon was spent quad biking and clay pigeon shooting (which I haven’t done before). As I was part of the dual activity group I lent my camera to Andy. Here are a few photos from the quad biking session.

Golden Wedding

Nic — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:58:37 +0000

Julie and I have just spent the weekend in Hambleton, for Margret and Tony Knox’s Golden Wedding Aniversary, we had a great weekend and as usual I took loads of photo’s. Here are a selection.

Skiing 2009

Nic — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:52:36 +0000

A couple of friends and myself have just gotten back from a good weeks skiing in the 3 Valleys. We stayed in the Residence Les Sentiers Du Tueda in Meribel-Mottaret. Here are a few photo’s that were taken during the week. Mostly the holiday consisted of skiing, eating lasagna and drinking beer. With the odd game of Uno and Pass the Pigs.

Leap Seconds

Nic — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:35:58 +0000

So when did you celerbrate the start of 2009? Did you remember to add a leap second last year? If this all sounds like gibberish to you, then take a read here.

Update

And I bet you all thought that this wouldn’t really matter, but no, it’s just like the Y2K thing all over again. Oracle have been caught by it and even Microsoft Zune’s.

WordPress 2.7

Nic — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:50:30 +0000

Well WordPress 2.7 has been released, so I have performed the upgrade, along with grabbing the latest nightly build of K2. According to the K2 blog everything should be ok.