Ciarán Walsh

Category: Misc

  • Doing some tidying up…

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    I’ve removed all the Tweets from the blog – you can still get them over on Twitter of course. I’ll be doing some more tidying up around the theme, etc., at some point too.

  • Spotify launches in Ireland

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    Spotify has launched in Ireland finally!  I’m using the 30 day Premium trial for now, but I’m seriously tempted to go for the €9.99 monthly subscription.  I’ll explore the library of content they have in the first month to see if it’s justified. Interestingly they also cater for purchasing the tracks if you really want…

  • How to make Google Chrome use the right local Google site for searching

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    How to ensure that Google Chrome uses the correct local version of Google when searching from the address bar.

  • Blog updated to WordPress 3.0

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    Following today’s release of WordPress 3.0 I was able to quickly and easily upgrade my blog via the Tools | Updates menu on the Dashboard. I love how WordPress makes it so easy to perform these kinds of updates for plugins, themes, and the core CMS 😀

  • New Blog Theme

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    I’ve updated the site to use the Cordobo Green Park 2 theme by Andreas Jacob, and it’s much nicer than what I had before. It took a bit of playing around with the sidebar widgets to get them set up just as I want them without overriding the standard ones included in the theme which…

  • My twitter feed is acting up

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    Looks like my twitter feed as imported by the Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter plugin is acting up and posting multiple copies of each tweet. Will need to look into this, and tidy up the posts 🙁

  • My tweets are now included in my blog

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    I just installed the Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter plugin for WordPress so that I can capture my tweets on Twitter as @anlaochsiorai in the blog here as blog posts. I’ve found myself microblogging via Twitter from my GPhone more often than posting regular posts here, so thought it would be good to capture them…

  • RSS feed problem fixed

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    I ran into a problem that seems to come up occasionally on the WordPress support forum – blank lines at the beginning of the RSS feed XML file for the site which causes problems since it’s no longer valid XML. A quick look at the support forum pointed me in the right direction. It turned…

  • I’m loving WordPress v2.7

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    I really love the admin pages in WordPress v2.7. I particularly like the way that you can install plugins and do updates directly from the admin interface. For example I logged in today and the Dashboard told me that WordPress 2.7.1 was available, and offered me the option to do the upgrade automatically. It did…

  • Site Update – WordPress 2.7, new theme, widgets support

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    So, it’s taken a while to get around to it, but I’m back on the blog again! There’s been a couple of updates, including upgrading to WordPress 2.7, changing my theme, and adding widgets support to the sidebar. There’s still a few things that need tidying up such as the colour scheme for the Google…