Mr Mist’s Blog

So, that’s it folk! We’ve made it through to the end of the year 2008. Tomorrow is another day. It’s been quite an interesting year, though I suspect that next year might be even more interesting. The final moments of the year are likely to be cold and foggy, so it says.

You can read a BBC News review of the most read stories of the year here. Some of the notable points have been the death of Heath Ledger, the strange Austrian guy who kept his family locked in the cellar for years, the Chinese Olympic Games and various assorted scandals over pretty trivial things at the BBC.

Naturally in an Olympic year, British sportspeople are quite highly honoured. Also this year sees a knighthood for Terry Pratchett – well deserved I think – and a CBE for businessman and TV’s dragon Peter Jones.

As a final splurdge this year, we’ve finally purchased a video camera. It’s a dinky little JVC thing, that is currently charging up. So eventually I’ll be able to flood this website with videos of cats. huzzah!

Happy New Year!

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Today I produce for your delight more cheap plastic stuff! This week’s item is an entire tool set, complete with all your hardware needs, for just 1 pound. As usual, you can see the item in the cheap plastic stuff section.

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Finished work for the year today. Woo! This means it is now officially “almost Christmas”. I have just one more thing to get. I shall attempt to get it on Monday.

Meanwhile, out in the world, due to this “credit crunch”, companies are failing all over the place, and other companies are being bailed out by lots of government cash.

Web browsing might be safe(r) again, but some cannot browse the Internet at all, after a cable was cut under the Mediterranean sea.

Pie.

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Not good really. When I got a response to my pretty detailed support request for the Digital Vault, it was a first-line response telling me how to reinstall the auto-backup software. None of my direct questions were addressed, and needless to say reinstalling the program made no difference at all. So I’ll not be taking that service any further.

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WordPress 2.7 is out now. The admin section has been completely revamped and as a result is – I think – much easier to use. Not that it was hard to use before, but now things have even more fluidity.

If you are upgrading, you may find that your themes and plugins need refreshing, as features such as comment threading, sticky posts, and quick editing are now included in the core. I’d recommend upgrading your WordPress install as soon as you can. Of course, remember if you are currently running an older version (before 2.6) then your best results will come from upgrading in stages (or even, if you’re really behind, maybe exporting your content and starting afresh).

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