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  • New photos!
    As promised, I finally uploaded all of the Rabbit photos I have and also some others from Siobhan such as karting, the lakes and more.. See them here Thanks Stephen
  • A Problem
    Yeh, I lost all of you guys’ comments. I’m not going to be reposting these (SORRY!) so if there are any that you feel should be reblogged (I can think of a few, code exerts) please post here and I’ll dig them out Stephen
  • Wordpress!
    After a whole month of not blogging I have decided to finally go with the rest of the world and switch to wordpress. I must say, I like it!   First impressions (It’s been installed about a minute) The interface is pretty self-explanitory, if not a little slow actually; Installation was a breeze (so simple, you honestly know nothing like [...]
  • Facebook Status now Cached
    Hello, due to the 20-odd second load times that I was experiencing, the facebook status is now cached to MySQL every ten minutes and then output from the database to the main page. If anyone wants any help to implement this, please leave a comment below and if there are enough interested people, I will release [...]
  • Loadtimes
    Over the last few days the site has been loading hideously slowly. I traced this back to the facebook status widget today and have disabled it until I reprogram it to work better Thanks Stephen
  • Comments fixed
    Since yesterday, or maybe the day before, comment posting has not been working. This is due to paths being different between the two webservers I had and me finally deleting all of the old files. They should be workin again now, maybe this was why noone was posting comments Stephen :thumbs: x
  • Facebook Status
    I have finally after much trying for weeks managed to get my facebook status on the right-hand bar below the nav menu I will be posting the source code for this tomorrow along with a guide on how to get it all working. I am also considering moving it to above the blogs [...]
  • Email
    Hello Over the past 3 hours, I have been battling to get my mail setup on my new dedi. Reason that I’m doing it so late is that it has been something I have nearly always struggled with, and the 3 hour battle I have just finished is proof of this. For that reason, [...]
  • Back to Apache
    After coming upon a problem of massive loadtimes, I have decided to revert my HTTP serving task back to good old, trusty, Apache 2.2. This time, however, I am using PHP with the aid of [b][url=http://uk3.php.net/apc]APC[/url][/b] (Alternative PHP Cache) which seems to have dropped page loadtimes by about .5/second all across the board. Please, [...]
  • And here it is
    You are now viewing this website from my new Dedicated server . It has: Intel Core Quad Q6600 4GB Ram 160GB space 6IP addresses 1.5TB bandwidth at 100mbps Please let me know if you see any issues/errors as the migration was sort of rushed in between doing a few other things. Please also tell me if you see [...]

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      — February 20th via Facebook
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      — February 19th via Facebook
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      — February 9th via Facebook
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