I’ve finally updated the last of the WordPress blogs I manage to version 1.5: this one.
I have, once again, managed to keep (almost) all my customisations and themes. As I did for the other blogs: Jamie’s The Cat’s Paw and Jan’s Family Histree. Plus one other, not yet public.
I have to thank Podz for hisUpgrading 1.2 to 1.5 page. Lots of useful info on there.
I need a new theme now it’s so easy to play about with them, and some more plug ins. Oh! And some more time too.
Note: You may need to refresh your browser to get the stylesheet from the new location.
Monthly Archives: February 2005
New WordPress
WordPress 1.5 ‘Strayhorn’ has been released. There are a huge number of new features in this version. Matt, Ryan and co have been working very hard for a long time on this.
Get it from the WordPress download page.
Happy Valentines Day Jan
Happy Valentines Day Jan
Love you,
Mike
XXX
GeoURL Re-launched
It looks like Daniel Schaller has re-launched the old GeoURL service. I say ‘re-launched’ but to be accurate he didn’t launch it in the first place. That was Joshua Schachter, who is extremely busy with the very wonderful del.icio.us at the moment.
The original GeoURL.org has been down for renovations
for over 9 months now. Daniel decided to do something about that and thus GeoURL.info was born.
The service seems to be off to a slow start; just 108 sign-ups in a month. I’ve signed up to the new service now and updated my links in the left column. If you want to do the same be aware that the find my neighbours url has a slightly different format. You now have to provide your lat and long in the URL rather than just your registered site name. Here is mine: find my neighbours. I’ve set the distance quite high for now as there are so few on it.
Update: Daniel has implemented the old way of querying; by using your site url. See his comment.
UPA North
I went to the inaugural meeting of the Usability Professionals Association – North of England (UPA North) tonight.
It was a great meeting. Andy Swartz and David Hawdale organized and presided. There was a detailed demo of eye tracking technologies from Ian James of EyeTracker and some good discussion from a group of interesting people.
I caught up with some old friends and met a bunch of new people.
As David pointed out, the people who attended had quite a diverse cross-section of job titles and skills, with different interests and from different fields. It illustrated just how all embracing the concept of usability is. There are a lot of people who have a legitimate interest in making their products more usable.
We hope to have another get together soon. I’m looking forward to it.
