– this post is under construction! – I’ve been using a wordpress.com site up until now, but I’ve recently got a nice VPS of my own from www.bizarc.com and I’ve just finished installing Virtual Multiblog for WordPress on this WAMP-configured server. These are the steps I took to get here, standing on the shoulders of […]
ASP.NET, RSS feeds, Validation, Misconfigured servers and Content-Length
A very frustrating problem! We’ve had an RSS feed available at www.lowcarboneconomy.com/GetRSS.xml for ages to syndicate our news feed. I monitor it daily using Netvibes to ensure that it’s working. The other day, I created a LinkedIn and FriendFeed page for LowCarbonEconomy.com and neither would accept the RSS feed. So, W3 validator to the rescue […]
Windows Live Mesh – Website Folder Sync Workaround
See this thread: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/LiveMesh/thread/de97cae2-1ab6-481c-be9d-311dff79b8f7/?ffpr=0 for more details, but the simple solution is… Right click the website folder, choose the customize tab, and change the icon back to a normal folder icon. That’s it. Your website will still work as such, but now it will sync too 🙂
Send Email to Gmail Groups – Why no UK support?
I’ve read a couple of posts online about how to send email to contact groups in Gmail. Apparently this is quite possible in Australia and the US (or at least it was at some point). Why can’t we do it in the UK? Don’t you trust us Google? If somone sends me a funny that […]
Multiple Accounts for Delicious in Firefox 3
Despite too much looking, I couldn’t find a Firefox extension or combination of extensions that managed to allow me to post bookmarks to two different delicious accounts without logging in and out of the delicious website. In the end I’ve gone for my work delicious account on Firefox 3 with the official delicious add-on, and […]
Digsby Failed to Connect to Gmail
Just a quick one really. Restarted my computer after some standard Windows Update installs and since I started my computer today my Digsby won’t connect to Gmail. It had trouble connnecting to twitter too, but got there in the end. From the Digsby forums it looks like a restart might solve the problem. I’ll post […]