bloggingIT

It’s been a little while since I last posted, so I thought that I’d better throw something up for 3 reasons.

1. I’m sitting at a computer installing over 10 CDs worth of software, and extremely bored
2. Lots is happening in my life, a great deal of which I can’t go into on this blog
3. Some stuff does happen, but I’m always too busy, and so I end up forgetting.

Well, no more! One of the core reasons for less posting is that this blog is fundamentally self-serving. I use it mainly for my own reference, so that if I need to do something IT-related I can load up the blog. Likewise, if I’m talking to someone I sometimes say, “I had that problem - search for it on my blog.” It’s a doddle. The investment in time is always a catch, though, and so I sometimes slip up and not post for a while.

So a rundown on cool things that I’m keeping an eye on or doing is coming right up.

A fellow Marillion and Fish fan, Jon Collins recently posted that he’d sort me out a curry after comparing Fish’s new album 13th Star to cooking.

As I’m inept at cooking, I’ll take his word for it - but I thought I’d check out Mr. Collins’ credentials in a proper style. Readers of this blog (ha! I couldn’t resist that one) might recognise the name from my post about the Marillion biography ‘Separated Out‘.

Still, I checked out the A Collection website, to see what he has to say for himself there, a lo, there’s a link to his blog! There’s nothing like a blog to get a feel for a person.

Indeed, I can pin Mr. Collins down as an IT baking, cookery skewing, hedgehog mowing genius. And he likes Marillion of course.

So, well done to Jon Collins for being him, and when he’s in, or near Margate, I can expect a nice curry!

Well, according to CyberWyre, BloggingIT is worth about $34,000!

Not bad for a blog that nobody reads!

It’s also got some interesting reads about using referrals to try and make your website profitable. I suppose that it may be worth considering something like that in the future for here.

After a few more links I might be able to sell the site to Google for a few million!

Today was a landmark for BloggingIT. I had my first proper spam comments on the site.

I woke up and thought that I’d check my email, and for some reason decided it might be smart to check out my blog’s admin page. I’m glad I did!

I found 7 new comments dotted around the site, not a single one happened to be about what was being posted, so I cleared out and decided that it’s time that I did something about it.

I’ve set up a Wordpress account and have an API code to activate Akismet.

After long day’s work and a domestic call out, I’ve just sat down, and today alone Akismet has caught 147 spams!

I feel quite lucky that I happened to check this. I wouldn’t want the arduous task of having to clear out all of those spam comments!

In a shock twist of events, I’ve finally managed to get Phill to sit down and write a proper post on his blog over at www.phillippass.com.

Admittedly I had to hold him down at gunpoint, but we eventually got there.

Let’s hope that it doesn’t take another two years! Eh, Phill?

So I thought that I’d give the WP software a try. While scouring the internet I happened to fall on it and liked the look of the thing.

So let’s see how it goes…