Category: Admin

Movable Type, the blogging engine whose hopelessness in dealing with spam drove me to use WordPress … has just had a major update. According to the features page (emphasis is mine): Movable Type helps...

Looking through the reports on the storms which hit the UK today, I found a real Subhan Allah moment in these pictures of the June storms in Dorset (on the south coast of England)....

I’ve been delivering tiles all week, and this afternoon was taking my parents to Gatwick Airport to go to Portugal, whereafter I drove to the Bluewater mall where I bought the latest version of...

Recently I helped someone with troubles they’d been having setting up WordPress using their blog host’s Control Panel tools. Of course, graphical user interface file transfer and management tools are always different, so for...

I’ve had a request from a fellow Muslim blogger for information about what is required in transferring from Blogger to WordPress. My main blog hasn’t been based on Blogger for more than a year,...

The WordPress team have released version 1.5.1 of the PHP-based blogging application which is used to run this weblog. They have published a brief list of the major changes here; there are a few...

Most people who read blogs regularly will have noticed that trackback is on the decline. An increasing number of MT sites which used trackback have shut the facility off. Blog House, which hosts one...

I just happened to look at my statistics (my host uses the MatrixStats system) and noticed that a staggering 48% of my referred sessions were referred by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Like, why...

The BBC reports that the results are in for this year’s Bloggies – and guess what? There are NO well-known hate blogs in the entire listing! This really is something for Muslims, and indeed...

Yesterday I discovered that WordPress’s latest release isn’t displaying my categories properly. It should be displaying them in alphabetical order, and there is a published way of changing the order of displaying the categories,...

I’ve been watching the progress on the latest version of the WordPress blogging software, which is based on the old b2 code which has spawned a few other derivatives, notably b2evolution. The new release...

News from Indonesia today … that the government there turned down the British government’s offer to send a group of 120 Gurkha troops from Brunei to help with the Aceh rescue / clean-up operation....

Anyone who reads the blogs linked here will have witnessed the flame war currently going on between “Dr Maxtor” and the Canadian Islamophobe who posts under various names on Izzy Mo’s blog. I am...

Properly, this time, I hope (insha Allah). I ended up having to take the whole lot down and start again, reinstalling the whole Movable Type package from scratch. So far, I haven’t had the...

I’m seriously looking into changing either my hosting provider, or my weblogging software, or both. I need some advice. I chose Fasthosts because they seemed to be the best value – a full gigabyte...

I’ve finally registered my copy of Ecto, a desktop blogging package from Japan. It only cost me about 12 quid, so it’s cheap, although it only lets you submit and manage entries – the...

This piece appeared in the Independent today, explaining why spammers post their ads on blogs – merely to push their ratings up on Google and other search engines which list sites according to people...