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Maintenance and updates

by Phil Long
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Well today’s been pretty quiet – obviously most people are busy so I’ve spent the day catching up on Geekbrief.tv, Battlestar Galactica, playing PES 2009 on the PS3 and watching my Starfleet DVDs which arrived on Tuesday at last (after pre-ordering a few months ago – release date kept slipping).

In addition to the above I also updated Boxee on the AppleTV – adding the GameTrailers application. It seems interesting but I’ve not had a proper play with it yet. Boxee itself is due an update at the beginning of March. It’ll be interesting to see what that delivers.

I’ve also gotten around to updating to the latest version of Wordpress, I was a few point versions behind (I think 2.5 maybe) – so I was about due an update. I was prompted by Ecto erroring due to bad formatting – which could potentially be due to an exploit being used. With Wordpress 2.7.1 being released this week it made sense to go ahead with the upgrade. The dashboard interface has changed a lot since my last version – and I’m quite liking it; it’s very tidy. However, unfortunately my Amazon plugin doesn’t work. Still, no Ecto is working again that’s not so much of an issue.

After the upgrade I added a new plugin to publish my blog updates to twitter – hoping it’d be a bit quicker than what I had been using in the past. Twitter seems to be gaining a bit of momentum in the UK at the moment; certainly more friends seem to be subscribing and I’ve become aware of others who have been using it as a while and we simply didn’t know. It very much owes it’s current popularity to mentions by Stephen Fry and Eddie Izzard on Tonight with Jonathan Ross – and then numerous mentions on Radio 1 since then. I guess it’s currently “the fashion”. You can follow me on Twitter here.
Incidentally, I can’t remember what I am using to post blog links to Twitter, but it isn’t a visible plugin. It’s been a long time since I set it up so I’ve forgotten exactly – I have a feeling it’s a third-party website. If anybody has a clue whether there is such a thing that’d be a great help so I can see if I can disable or improve it; at present there’s a risk I’ll end up with duplicate posts to Twitter.

Edit: me, updating and playing with AppleTV for my day 117:
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    • Posted on Saturday, February 14th, 2009 at 10:54 pm and under Computers, Gadgets, Games, Internet, Site Work category.

    One Response to “Maintenance and updates”

    1. Surely only the BBC twitter, them and early adopter IT geeks. And the geeks will leave once too many people start using it.
      Blogs, RSS feeds, facebook, twitter, SMS, actually meeting people…
      How many ways do we need?

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