Technology Tales

26^th July 2025, 14:33

After a period of time with a noticeable slowdown that was frustrating at times, I tried a seemingly irrelevant tweak: changing the nameserver definitions in /etc/resolv.conf to Cloudflare and away from in-house settings. So far, that seems to have helped. Only time will tell if that is not an illusion. If so, I have another option in my mind.

14^th July 2025, 11:35

Looking at my visitor numbers now, they really have fallen away from what they once were. In an age when many go to LLM systems for finding information, that is not such a surprise. After all, I do it myself. In fact, it is one of the reasons that I have for retaining a ChatGPT subscription. Those extensive deep dive reports containing hyperlinked information have countless uses.

22^nd January 2025, 20:49

Here is a gotcha that confused me recently. Having a licence for SAS Analytics Pro on Viya, I was wondering why a Docker container was being spun up for me, especially when there was no feedback. Later, it turned out that the licence file was in the wrong place. Only when I placed it in the sasinside area did everything work as it should. Because licences only get renewed annually, I am adding here as an aide de mémoire for future reference. It is too easy to forget something when you are not doing it every day.

4^th January 2025, 17:53

Having deleted all my accounts on there after overcoming a certain amount of inertia, I am now free of x.com (formerly Twitter). While others are heading for Bluesky, I am going to keep away from any political discussions for the sake of my mental health. It looks as if the world is in for a rough ride over the next few years. The less violent rhetoric we have, the better.

17^th December 2024, 16:35

All my recent AI experimentation has convinced me that my main workstation needs an upgrade. It was open-source data programming in 2020 and 2021 that prompted me to do the last upgrade during the summer of 2021, so there is some consistency in what could be coming. Having NPU capability may be best for running GenAI models on my own machinery, though using API's and chat interfaces will retain their place in all of this. With this year approaching an end and other plans already being made already, such an upgrade will wait until next year. Assuming the ideas come to fruition, that will be sufficient time for anything that happens. The dramatic upheaval in technology cannot but impact our computing world, much as it did to our lives thirty years ago.

17^th December 2024, 11:39

Altair SLC is a software platform that executes programs using SAS language syntax without the need for translation or additional licences. It offers a full SAS language environment with the ability to integrate Python, R, and SQL, enabling users to combine diverse program modules. Its main features include multi-language support for SAS, Python, R, and SQL, comprehensive compatibility with SAS language and macro syntax, and flexible deployment options on IBM mainframes, in the cloud, and on various operating systems. Additionally, Altair SLC is cost-effective, reducing expenses by negating third-party licences and supporting advanced analytics, which enhances productivity and shortens development and deployment cycles. The platform is designed to support significant migration projects and maintain SAS language program libraries efficiently, delivering a modern and adaptable analytics solution.

6^th December 2024, 21:52

This morning, I heard a story on Irish radio about someone who had their Facebook account hijacked. The impact was heavy: it was a place for fundraising for a child with cerebral palsy, a place to do business, and somewhere for social connections and sharing memories. There was assistance as a result, so I hope things work out in some way.

The cautionary tale highlights the importance of being forensic with passwords, never reusing them and using two-factor authentication. Password managers and generators are crucial, even if one wonders about all this paraphernalia overwhelms many. There also is the importance of being a paying customer in order to get support, rather than availing of a free service where you are the product for those who do the paying, advertisers in other words.

6^th December 2024, 06:12

The website has suffered a bump that I inflicted on it through my own inattention. Databases do need backing up before doing anything serious with the WP Crontrol plugin, especially deleting every CRON event in the cause of getting the Site Health display to improve. A new database build was needed as a result, with the content being added in at the database level. While nothing major was lost, I still needed to iron out some creases, a few of which were time-consuming to resolve. All is steadier now, and there was a spot of flab removal too, which might speed up things following the upheaval.

26^th November 2024, 15:23

Rclone is a command-line tool that manages files on cloud storage, offering features such as data backup, restoration, mirroring, migration, and mounting. It supports over 70 providers, including Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and Dropbox. Rclone preserves timestamps and checksums during transfers and allows for restarting operations. It also provides features like MD5 and SHA1 hash checking, synchronization, and mounting cloud storage as a network disk. The tool is open-source, written in Go, and supports various operating systems including Linux, Windows, and Mac. Rclone's friendly support community uses it for backup solutions, restores, GUIs, and business processes. It is widely adopted and can be downloaded from rclone.org or official repositories like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Brew, Chocolatey.

22^nd November 2024, 23:00

An open-source alternative to GPT-4, ColossalChat allows for faster and cheaper chatbot customization with its complete RLHF pipeline, bilingual dataset, and 4-bit quantized inference. Alpaca-LoRA offers a high-quality Instant model on limited hardware through low-rank adaptation, while Vicuna generates coherent and creative text for chatbots with near 90% of ChatGPT's performance as part of the Fast Chat platform. GPT4ALL uses LLaMa architecture and low-latency machine learning accelerators for fast inference on CPUs and multilingual tasks, while Raven RWKV achieves comparable levels of quality and scalability with faster processing speed and VRAM conservation through an RNN language model. OpenChatKit offers a comprehensive toolkit for chatbot development with step-by-step instructions, fine-tuning capabilities, and both moderation features to train your own instruction-tuned large language model. OPT demonstrates remarkable abilities in zero-shot and few-shot learning, as well as stereotypical bias analysis through decoder-only transformers of various sizes. Flan-T5-XXL significantly improves performance on a variety of model classes through fine-tuning and multilingual tasks. Baize exhibits impressive multi-turn dialogue abilities with guardrails for risk mitigation, while Koala performs better than Alpaca and is similar to ChatGPT in numerous instances after fine-tuning LLaMa on a dialogue dataset. Dolly uses instruction following ability from old open-source language models, and Open Assistant offers truly open-source large language chatbots with dynamic information retrieval capabilities.

22^nd November 2024, 18:59

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is utilising artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies to enhance its grant management operations. The Automated Referral Tool, an AI-based system launched in 2022, assists NIH staff in assigning applications to appropriate review branches based on historical data. An enterprise level tool comparing application abstracts with program officials' expertise suggests matches and reduces workloads for liaisons at NIH Institutes or Centres. Digital tools also help prevent duplicate or overlapping applications from being funded, saving time and resources. NIH is exploring ways AI can guide programmatic assessment of an application’s Data Management and Sharing Plan, improve public reporting on funded projects, and reduce reputational bias during merit review. These technologies aim to make grant operations more efficient, innovative, and flexible while adhering to confidentiality rules and ethical guidelines.

25^th October 2024, 16:08

It is better to close Mac applications using the CMD + Q keyboard shortcut or clicking on the Quit entry in the application menu. Simply clicking on the red X icon risks losing a memory of anything that you have open in the application. That was what I found when closing Firefox that way, and it happened a few times before I finally took the hint. Restoring open tabs is not only a faff, but also is unreliable. Visual Studio Code behaves the same way, and I suspect that CotEditor does too. All in all, this seems to be a general macOS thing and a gotcha for anyone coming from Windows or Linux.

17^th May 2024, 23:22

Now that I have a presence on Mastodon, I have begun to use a command line tool called toot to add missives on there. The web interface works as well, yet toot can be logged into more than one account at a time; switching between accounts is a fairly facile operation. For a command line tool, toot is well intuitive once you get used to it.

8^th January 2024, 13:08

Now that ownCloud has been acquired by Kiteworks, there is some uncertainty about what happens next. So far, there is an offer for ownCloud and Nextcloud users to move to Kiteworks' proprietary platform. Nextcloud itself has been busy making use of the uncertainty to promote their own product line.

19^th November 2023, 19:15

The open-source section of the website got a lot of tweaking in the last few weeks. The recipient of the attention was the operating system subsection. That got a full reorganisation, with all the listings seeing new entries too. The desktop software also got a bit of attention, and other areas could get altered yet.

20^th January 2023, 11:35

Recently, I have been having trouble with Nvidia drivers following a kernel update in Linux Mint (21.1 is the version that I am using). The kernel version has been rolled back from 5.19.x to 5.15.x, and I installed an old AMD graphics card as well. Things still are not perfect, though, so I will be looking out for a way to make things smoother. For now, all is good enough for the moment.

12^th February 2022, 10:30

Google Analytics appears to be losing favour in the EU, if Matomo is to be believed. First, Austria outlawed its usage and no France follows suit. This naturally suits Matomo, a self-hosted open-source alternative for collecting website metrics, so it should not be any surprise that they are forthcoming with these details.

9^th October 2021, 16:20

Here is the sequence of commands to use when upgrading from OpenMediaVault 4.x to 5.x. All need to be executed with elevated access privileges:

wget -O - https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/raw/master/upgrade4to5 | sudo bash

reboot

Once your system has restarted and you have logged in again, then you execute these:

apt-get purge openmediavault-omvextrasorg resolvconf

wget -O - https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/packages/raw/master/install | bash

apt-get update

apt-get dist-upgrade

omv-salt deploy run nginx

omv-salt deploy run phpfpm

apt-get install usrmerge

omv-confdbadm migrate conf 5.0.0

9^th October 2021, 15:19

Here are some North American online emporia for buying computers, their components or peripherals:

Best Buy

Micro Center

Newegg

PC-Canada

Tech-America

24^th September 2021, 09:06

Here are boilerplate commands for banning and unbanning IP addresses using Fail2ban:

fail2ban-client set <JAIL> banip <IP>
fail2ban-client set <JAIL> unbanip <IP>

27^th July 2020, 13:09

If you ever need to install Linux kernel headers on an openSUSE instance in order to install VirtualBox Guest Additions, the following command should be executed in order to do the needful:

sudo zypper in kernel-source

5^th February 2017, 10:37

Here is a possible way of resetting the CSS definition for an HTML element, class or ID:

#reset-this-parent {
all: initial;
* {
all: unset;
}
}

Browser support for the above may vary, though.

23^rd November 2016, 10:39

After seeing messages like "The authenticity of host 'hostname' can't be established" during ssh connections, I decided to investigate more and came up with the following solution:

sudo chown -v $USER ~/.ssh/known_hosts

My known_hosts file had gained root ownership so I could not write to it, so changing the ownership to that of my own user account sorted the problem. An alternative could be to change the group assignment using chgrp, and setting permissions using chmod, but what I did sufficed for my needs.

23^rd November 2016, 06:30

When I ran into trouble with accessing my own websites using my broadband, I found that the solution was to change DNS Lookup Service to what Google offers. This was done on the router side and the IP addresses used were 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4.

4^th June 2016, 22:33

Here's a way to convert DNG files to JPEG ones:

find -type f | grep DNG | parallel mogrify -format jpg {}

16^th September 2015, 10:51

Here is a way to recursively delete folders and their contents in PowerShell:

Remove-Item .\foldertodelete -Force -Recurse

The Force switch silences any messages that otherwise would appear, and the Recurse switch is what gets directories removed.

12^th April 2015, 10:18

Devuan (pronounced like dev-one) is a fork of Debian that does not use systemd as Debian is doing, like so many other distros. Part of the name must come from a collective calling itself Veteran UNIX Admin (VUA). There is no actual release just yet, but one is intended for around the same time as Debian 8.0 gets released and donations are being solicited via the website.

20^th February 2015, 18:51

Here is a handy way to get PowerShell to show files larger than a certain size:

get-childitem | where-object {$_.length -gt 10000} | ft fullname, length -auto

16^th June 2010, 10:16

If you've been here before, you'll notice that the first rendition of the new look for this place has been introduced. It is based upon the Intention WordPress theme, but more work is needed before it looks as tidy as I'd like it. That'll take a little while and improvements will come gradually, yet I hope that the new design is pleasing even at this time. At the very least, it looks natty to my eyes, though there are little bits and pieces that I have ended up leaving behind for now. Even so, it gives me a modern menu at the top of every page, so I'm far from disappointed. In any case, I don't mind doing some extra tinkering.

15^th June 2010, 00:18

This little outpost on the web has had the same site design for around two years now, so I am beginning to wonder about making a change to it in the spirit of keeping things feeling fresh. Experimentation is in progress on the offline copy of what you see here, but that could reveal roadblocks yet. So far, things are looking hopeful, and you shouldn't be too surprised if it all looks different some day.

19^th June 2008, 11:48

Yesterday, this blog got a bumpy ride from its hosting provider, Fasthosts. For several hours, it was down and there have been occasional errors returned since then. I'll be keeping an eye on this, but I hope that things stabilise sooner rather than later. There's no question of moving things lock, stock and barrel at this time; patience is an essential virtue when it comes to these things...

17^th May 2008, 11:34

I have gone and downloaded the next to four gigabytes of the 64 bit variant of Fedora 9 using BitTorrent, and so thought that it might be a good idea to set the thing up in a VirtualBox virtual machine. However, that stratagem got scuppered by VirtualBox's not supporting 64-bit operating systems. I do have VMware Workstation and, since that supports what I was doing, I resolved to set up Fedora there. After my plan's getting shelved, my trying out VirtualBox is a matter that remains outstanding...

27^th March 2008, 11:12

Unfortunately, due to a spot of hosting trouble, this blog was offline for a few days while I was getting things sorted out. Along the way, I learned a few lessons about web hosting that I'll share soon. Meanwhile, I'll continue to set in place the last few bits and pieces that made the site's predecessor what it was.

5^th January 2008, 10:30

In 2007, I set myself a challenging goal: post something new to this blog every day. Of course, it didn't happen quite like that. Therefore, for 2008, I'll be going for a less onerous one: a post every two or three days. That should mean that I don't run out of steam; pacing yourself to ensure that quantity doesn't dilute quality is a superb idea. Welcome to 2008.

5^th November 2007, 00:09

According to Google Analytics, visitor numbers for this blog hit their highest level one day last week. I suspect that I might have been down to a mention of two of my posts on tuxmachines.org. Thanks, guys. Feedburner activity has been strong too.

That brings me to another thought: the web seems a good place for Ubuntu users to find solutions to problems that they might encounter. I certainly found recipes that resolved issues that I was having: scanner set up and using another hard drive to host my home directory, all very useful stuff. When I last played with Linux to the same extent that I am now doing, the web was still a resource, but it wouldn't have been as helpful as I found it recently. I suppose that there are people like me posting tips and tricks for computing on blogs, and that makes them easier to find. That's no bad thing, so I hope that it continues. Saying that, I might still get my hands on an Ubuntu book yet...

28^th October 2007, 23:53

The standard phishing detection that comes with IE7 really does slow things down when it comes to navigating web pages. In contrast, the option offered as part of Norton 360 is much faster. So much so that you hardly notice that it's there at all. When I restored IE7 on my PC and ran it for the first time, Norton asked me to be its default fraud detection and I was away from there. Norton 360 offers nothing for Firefox, my preferred and default option, but there may be plug-ins that address that need.

27^th October 2007, 13:53

I have all sorts of messages littering my blog dashboard this morning telling me to upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1; I suppose that I'd better set to work with upgrading then. However, this is never something that I do without first testing on my offline blogs. And then, there's the need to save some tweaks to WordPress source code ahead of time. I know that I could create my own plugins, but that involves finding the correct hooks, and it's a subject for another time, anyway.

13^th October 2007, 13:35

I finally had enough of internetnews.com's intrusive CPU-eating ads and remembered that there was a Firefox add-on for the job. I have snagged Adblock Plus and can vouch that for its effectiveness. It also works with AccuWeather.com, a site about which I complained a while back. I just wonder why I didn't thin of this earlier; it certainly beats what ZoneAlarm could do. Now, I see why its functionality has raised some hackles, but if advertisers didn't overdo it in the first place, there would have been no problems. Well, that's marketing for you... And yes, we do want the right to ignore ads.

10^th October 2007, 13:34

Having had a pretty fallow summer when it came to ideas for this blog, I am now lucky to enjoy a flush of them. Also, because of my now established one post per day rule, I am currently writing my posts ahead of time so that you can be assured of something new every day rather than a load of stuff one day and nothing on the next. That works for me because I am largely a proactive blogger rather than a reactive one. As a result, I am not bothered by a need to break something before everyone else; I simply couldn't do that anyway; I have learnt that there are many others who can make a much better job of it. Nevertheless, I do get inspired by what's going on in the technology world, and it's just that I take my time over things before sharing with others; the chance for some additional consideration before a post goes public is a very useful one. And then there are my own explorations that surely will turn up more ideas.

2^nd October 2007, 12:01

I had a recent problem with InternetNews.com: its adverts were causing Firefox to lock up my CPU. While I do put my CPU through its paces, I'd rather that others didn't decide to do the same and with things that do not add a great deal of value. So it was time to set ZoneAlarm loose by cranking up its ad blocking to the max. There are occasions where exceptions are needed, and right-clicking on a domain name in the site list in the Privacy area allows you to relax things on a site by site basis. Obviously, you need to know the website well, but I don't ever remember having this sort of control with Norton Personal Firewall when I had it on my main PC.

25^th September 2007, 11:56

No sooner have we passed the CS3 circus than Adobe and Corel start bringing out new releases of their consumer digital imaging software. This autumn has brought us Paint Shop Pro X2 and Photoshop Elements 6. I'll wait for the reviews, but I can't say that very much about the new Elements strikes me as making it a compelling upgrade and I definitely have left the PSP fold, even if the latest release seems to have some interesting features on offer. In any case, I am not sure who is going to upgrade their software on an annual basis. With so many other calls on my cash, I definitely am not of that ilk.

9^th September 2007, 21:57

While I don't spend too much time looking at that statistics in Google Analytics, but I do find it useful to see what people come to see. Another thing that I keep on radar is the browser technologies that visitors are using. Screen resolution is a particular interest of mine. However, browsers and their versions are watched too, and I have spotted the ascent of IE7 from where it was; there appears to be a surge in recent times. While I am unsure as to the cause for this, it's definitely happening and Vista take up seems to have noting to do with it.

21^st July 2007, 20:16

After sticking with Andreas09 for so long, I have been lured into using Prosumer instead. A spot of tweaking has turned it from a fixed width layout into something a spot more fluid. While it's more edgy than its predecessor, I intend to make things appear a touch more harmonious, to my eyes anyway, over time. The level of personalisation might be even greater, too, never a bad thing when it comes to standing out from the crowd. While on WordPress.com, I did try with Andreas09, but the greyness that I added got to me in the end and I stuck with a brighter scheme after moving the blog. We'll see how it all goes on from here...

21^st July 2007, 11:55

Looking through Google Analytics for my websites, I have always been struck by the lack of IE7 uptake, seemingly apparent from the statistics. However, I recently discovered that there may be a reason for this. I use the Ultimate GA plugin with my WordPress blogs and that adds the JavaScript code block near the bottom of the page. However, I recently saw that giving me scripting errors in IE7 and a spot of manual coding saw it travel to the header section of the web page. That, and the deactivation of the said plugin, was sufficient to rid of the errors in question. Seeing the effect of my changes on the reported share of visitors using IE7 could be interesting. It might even boost the Vista numbers as well.

30^th June 2007, 20:29

I have taken what some might consider a retrograde step: I added code to insert my blogroll directly below the widgets section of my left-hand sidebar. The reason for this is reuse of the same ID; it causes my Firefox HTML Validation add-on to issue warnings, and so can hardly be standards-compliant. Ironically, in its native state, the blogroll functions take panes to ensure that each category has its own ID, only for the widgets functions to go and disregard all of this and assign the same ID for each category. To change this in the widgets code involves ploughing through loads of arrays (and functions) and is not something for which I have time when an easier solution is very much possible.

29^th June 2007, 20:30

Recently, I posted about using mod_rewrite to block access to your images from all but the websites to which you want access to be available. Following so doing, I discovered that my FAVICON had disappeared from Firefox's address. As it turned out, it was easy to fix and that is covered in another recent post.

13^th June 2007, 20:02

Here's something that I found while looking into something else: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. My first impression is that it looks like IE's answer to Firefox's Web Developer add-on, and they do share a lot of functionality. While I am going to stay with Firefox as my main browser, IE's Developer Toolbar will prove invaluable for those occasions where web page rendering is not the same for both Firefox and IE.

14^th May 2007, 19:58

Without the means to stop them, I have had to stop using the Accuweather.com website because of annoying pop-up advertisements, the origins of some of which are branded hacking websites by the firewall at work. Even with Firefox, the whole approach is painful, with windows popping up asking to install some utility software onto my home PC. That is certainly something that I am not going to do, since the whole in-your-face approach seems disreputable in any case. It is all very much over the top and I intensely dislike the hard sell mentality and will not be returning: it's an effective way to drive away visitors.

4^th May 2007, 19:44

After being away in Ireland last weekend, a pleasant surprise greeted me on my return when I checked up on the welfare of my blogs: my Firefox Google toolbar was telling me of a jump from 0 to 4 for this website, good news indeed. My hillwalking blog also benefited from such good karma; its PageRank has increased by 1. This is where I like to see things going...

21^st April 2007, 19:28

On a recent blog hopping excursion, I spotted a mention of no frills hosting by Streamline.net by a satisfied customer. I'll stick with Fasthosts for now because I have what I need from them in terms of features and uptime, even though I am paying a bit more. The Streamline package looks interesting though...

29^th March 2007, 18:48

This is an observation that surprised me: a title on one of my blog posts was helping to drive my Akismet counter a bit wild as the thing was busying itself detecting and quarantining the rubbish. Since changing the offending title, things have calmed down a bit. For me, that's food for thought...

27^th March 2007, 20:14

Apart from a widget that puts a login form onto a blog sidebar, I am not really on the lookout for WordPress plug-ins, but here are two that came to my attention recently. I have found them to be useful; maybe you will too.

The first is WordPress Admin Themer. This allows you to store wp-admin.css in your blog's theme folder, out of harm's way from future upgrade cycles. A neater way of otherwise storing your customisations of admin pages, I keep changing the logout destination to the front page of my blogs, would be a bonus, but the style plug-in is a good step forward.

A possible use to which I was going to put WordPress Admin Themer was to hide some elements of the WordPress dashboard page, but I happened across another plug-in that does just this kind of thing: Dashboard Editor. Activating this gets you an extra admin page where you can select the components that you want to see using the tick (check) boxes. You can even take things further by having your very own dashboard instead of what WordPress offers, or by activating widgets for using with your dashboard. It's all good stuff and I have got rid of extraneous pieces such as Planet News and the getting started section (I have using WordPress long enough that I should know my way around by now...).

27^th March 2007, 18:50

I found this WordPress plug-in called Popularity Contest while looking for something else, always the best way to find things. Come to think of it, I can't remember what I was looking for. Anyway, the plug-in polls the popularity of your posts, a very useful piece of information, not that it should deflect from writing about those things about you want to write...

3^rd March 2007, 18:34

Apparently, a cracker got on to the WordPress.org servers and tampered with the publicly available stable versions of WordPress. 2.1.1 is the affected version, and they are imploring everyone to upgrade to 2.1.2. It all sounds worrying, but I suppose that it highlights the need to keep your guard up, and even names as big as WordPress can be hit. I am not convinced that WordPress.com is affected.

1^st March 2007, 18:39

The Windows command has always been the poor relation of its UNIX equivalent, and it appears that Microsoft released PowerShell to remedy this. It seems to offer scripting possibilities beyond what is already available on Windows, and is a free download for XP and Vista. I haven't got to exploring its potential yet, but it is on the to-do list.

27^th February 2007, 18:47

On my other blog, a WordPress one that I have hosted myself, I have added the FireStats plug-in so that I can get some idea how many are paying it a visit. It has definitely been useful. It tells you referrer, operating system and browser information as well as what has been visited. While I know that I can look at my server logs to get this information, this is so much easier, and it can be extended to non-WordPress PHP-powered pages too.

Hansel and Gretel Breadcrumb is another plug-in that I have spotted, but given that the blog is set up, it didn't look that useful. If it could be extended to my non-blog pages, à la FireStats, that would be a much more useful situation.

7^th February 2007, 18:28

I have just spotted an interesting behaviour in the Recent Posts section on the left sidebar here: the space between the penultimate and final words in a heading is the HTML entity for a non-breaking space, rather than a real space. That means that a browser sees the two words as one rather than two strings and has consequences for text wrapping of these last two words in the phrase. The workaround is to watch the lengths of the last two words, but why things were set up the way that they are in the first place is beyond me.

2^nd February 2007, 18:32

A BBC reporter logs his impressions of Vista over a 24-hour period. A frequent Mac user, he comes away impressed.

Update: I have seen a post somewhere that slates the BBC for being pro-Microsoft; personally, I doubt that they are any more biased than anyone else out there in the media. Maybe the gripe comes from a Linux or Mac fan...

2^nd February 2007, 18:29

Following my change of WordPress theme, sensible headings are beginning to return to its summaries of my posts. Interestingly, it would appear that Google's BlogSearch has been unaffected by the glitch.

17^th January 2007, 18:17

ForecastFox should be a useful utility, adding a weather toolbar to Mozilla Firefox as it does. However, it developed a penchant for hogging the CPU when I upgraded from Firefox 2.0 to Firefox 2.0.0.1. I'll hold out for a new version to see if the problem has been sorted. You can find out more here.