Category: Admin

Update: I have now received nearly £80 which exceeds the likely amount needed (with another promised), so jazakum Allah khair to everyone who donated. The donate button will remain, but the appeal is ended...

I’d just like to send out a warning to certain people that the rules on abusive comments apply to everyone. I’ve been refusing quite a few comments recently because they contain insults to other...

Yesterday I upgraded my install of WordPress to version 2.8, and although I was apprehensive about upgrading (being an adherent of the school which prefers patched, i.e. bug-fixed, versions to fresh ones), it turned...

To anyone who has tried to comment in the last three hours or so but couldn't because they hadn't entered the Captcha code which never appeared, I have de-activated the plugin which turned out...

For anyone who’s surfed in and hasn’t noticed … IJB is now a WordPress blog (again). I intend to explain more about the move in the next day or so (and it’s taken less...

I’ve been either ill or busy the past week. Before and after last week I had a job which required 12 and a half hour average days, then I went down with flu and...

As you can see, I have changed the theme for this blog. I had not intended to do this when I upgraded my Movable Type installation last week, but the old templates did not...

Update: This site was down overnight, because my web host upgraded some of their software, and had backed up my files before they did that, and restored them, destroying all the work I did...

As-Salaamu 'alaikum everyone Apologies for not posting anything for the last few days. Initially it was due to lack of material to write about, then it was tiredness due to work, and now there...

Greetings and as-Salaamu 'alaikum to my overseas readers, Some news outlets have reported that a "severe tornado" had struck London today. While there were severe storms in many areas of London, the tornado itself...

I decided to reproduce a post off IslamiBlog on the other blog, Blogistan, about the now closed Islamic Society University in Manchester known as "Ambrose". This is because it seemed symptomatic of the "squeeze"...

I've decided to coin a new term: blognoramus. A blognoramus is not, of course, an ignoramus with a weblog. There are plenty of those around and nobody has seen fit to coin a special...

Fifteen years ago, when most people had never heard of the Internet and only people at universities and in various government departments had access to it, nobody had heard of PHP forums (or PHP...

A bizarre new spam trend has emerged over the last few days – spamming people’s blogs with links to other people’s blogs. I’ve had a large number of trackback pings over the past few...