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I’ve been getting a lot of trackback spam lately. I suppose it could be worse, but it’s only started happening quite recently. I really wasn’t sure what it was at first. I know now that it’s spam. Though it just seems like people are making blogs and filling them with other peoples posts. No advertising penile enlargements, Viagra and general hardcore acts. Just snippets of posts with a link to the post to read the rest. I found a list of tools for helping to combat this evil. Would anyone recommend any? Copyright Phil O’Kane © 2006-2007This feed is indended for personal use only. If you are not reading it in your feed reader please let me know....

A few people were kind enough to offer some advice as to why I have display problems with Internet Explorer as mentioned yesterday. Jennifer Farley said, “It happens to me when I place an image that is wider than the main column in the post.“ Im not entirely sure if this happens for me, but I always make sure my images are less than the width of the main column (about 470px). nerd tells me “fixed width is bad” - I barely know what that is. I think is it something about how the width moves according to different resolutions? The most interesting is that the tags could be causing the problems, according to McAWilliams. In his comment he included a link to the results of my blog after hit had been put through the W3.org XHTML Validator. I’m not sure how valid...

I just noticed that my sidebar in Internet Explorer is way down the bottom of the page. As a Firefox user I haven’t noticed this before. The only time I use IE is in work; a more shit than usual IE where flash, quicktime, streaming anything and much javascript doesn’t work. But my sidebar is at the top where it should be. If anyone else sees the blog like this let me know. Then get Firefox! If you can help me fix this, that would be super great! Copyright Phil O’Kane © 2006-2007This feed is indended for personal use only. If you are not reading it in your feed reader please let me know....

Copyright Phil O’Kane © 2006-2007This feed is indended for personal use only. If you are not reading it in your feed reader please let me know....

Having finally got this blog to a state where I am actually happy with it, I have moved to putting all of my free time into my other blog, and of course am having various minor problems with it. This plan is to collaborate with a few friends on this one - friends who barely know what a blog is, but I know it will work once we get around the technical side of things; wordpress is pretty simple to use for anyone who is just concerned with writing and publishing online. I thought last night it would be a good idea to copy everything from my ‘plugins’ folder of this blog to the pc then to the new blog. Afterwards I realised that some plugins require small adjustments to the loop files and some put files in other folders, so over the weekend I will be installing them all manually,...

I’m really having a lot of trouble getting a WordPress theme I really like. The one I have at the minute ‘Andreas04 2.0‘ was beginning to grow on me, but I’ve just discovered that in each entry page the title (in the top title bar) says the words “Andreas04: Close to Attraction’. My unfortunate lack of coding knowledge means that I will have to find another one. I just can’t find the perfect theme. I do have some ideas of my ‘perfect theme’ - qualities if you will. I don’t want it to stretch the whole width of the page. Really just enough for 500px width pictures in posts. 2 columns A header picture (I don’t know how to alter the code myself to put one in). No crazy bright colours Ideally, the date at the top The...