Life without the Internet (Tuesday 13th of May 2008 03:09:47 PM)
For the past week, (and a bit), my Internet at home has been disconnected. There was a small
misunderstanding between the wife and I and that resulted in the account been canceled,
(personally, I blame the wife). Needless to say I am like a drug ...
(more)We are moving (Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 11:52:00 AM)
It's that time again, JournalHome has outgrown it's current home, (that and the current hosts
proved somewhat less than willing to help with their problems). Anyway, we are moving to a
server that is about 50% larger, more memory, more drive space and ...
(more)Moving to a bigger server... again (Wednesday 19th of March 2008 08:52:00 AM)
Hi, I am in talks with another service provider to move JournalHome to another, (hopefully more
reliable), server.This will give us more room, (as we are fast running out of space), and
hopefully they will offer a better service.The changes should not ...
(more)Small update (Friday 21st of December 2007 10:58:21 AM)
Over the past few weeks I have been very busy at my real work but that doesn't mean I didn't
keep an eye on JournalHome, I have deleted over 50 spam accounts :), sometimes it makes you
wonder why they even bother.But you can help ...
(more)So close, yet so far... (Sunday 21st of October 2007 08:57:09 AM)
Last night England played South Africa in the Final of the rugby world cup. And South Africa
won it. Honestly I don't think that England ever really had a chance against the South
Africans. But it would have been so nice :). Yesterday the whole ...
(more)Add the BlogRush Plugin to JournalHome (Thursday 20th of September 2007 05:28:54 PM)
I added the BlogRush to the slow growing list of plugins. You can see what it does on my own
blog, it list 5 'related' blogs and my blog is placed on other peoples blog. So their visitor
might come and see my blog, in ...
(more)FeedBurner RSS vs JournalHome RSS (Wednesday 19th of September 2007 01:38:20 PM)
I created a new plugin, (well to be fair I converted an existing one), to enable you to
redirect all your RSS feeds from JournalHome to FeedBurner.They offer you a bunch of stats like
the number of registered users and so on. As a small ...
(more)Import wordpress blogs. (Sunday 16th of September 2007 08:30:00 AM)
<diggthis align=left>A user asked me for the ability to import from wordpress blogs.I
actually wrote it a while ago and was testing it, so I guess now is as good a time as any. I
will import comments, categories and entries.I am still working on ...
(more)At work today and the 2007 rugby world cup (Saturday 08th of September 2007 06:58:37 AM)
I have been quite busy lately at my 'real' job and now I have to work on a Saturday to catch up
with some work. Unfortunately the company chose Saturday, (been a quiet day), to do some
renovation about 10 meters away from my little ...
(more)Happy Blog day!! (Friday 31st of August 2007 01:09:00 PM)
I was looking at the twitter site, (the twitter plugin is down BTW), and I saw a notice that
apparently today is blogday. If you use your imagination you can see 3108 could look like blog,
(if the '8' is dropped a little). They claim ...
(more)Now protecting all the email addresses. (Friday 31st of August 2007 05:47:00 AM)
As some of you know, it is possible to actually have your email address on your templates,
(the flag <%Email%>), but unfortunately this was been abused by some unscrupulous bots
that go around harvesting those email addresses. It was also a problem ...
(more)Turned strong Captcha on. (Wednesday 29th of August 2007 11:19:00 AM)
As some of you might have noticed we have all been receiving a fair amount of spam lately.
So I had to turn the more stringent captcha that should hopefully make our friendly spammers
life a lot more difficult. I will leave it turned ...
(more)Disabled the stats page for a short while. (Thursday 23rd of August 2007 08:50:52 PM)
Hi, Someone, (or something), is trying to get be clever with the statistic page so I have
disabled it for now. All the stats are still been recorded as expected, we are still counting
everything as per normal. I only disabled the page that ...
(more)Compressed pages, for faster surfing... (Wednesday 22nd of August 2007 05:31:00 PM)
All the pages are now compressed, (if the browser can handle it), and that means that pages
should load a little faster.This applies to everything on the site, (your profiles, your
control panel and so on).As far as I know, only a handful of browsers ...
(more)Fixed some bugs with the editor. (Wednesday 15th of August 2007 10:07:00 AM)
A few of you reported some errors with the basic editor and the advanced one.Basically images
were not saved with the full path but rather were saved relative to the editor.Not a very
helpful scenario if you view your entries somehwere else than on your ...
(more)Little known facts about me... (Monday 06th of August 2007 10:53:08 AM)
As some of you know I am currently on a long term contract overseas, (down South).But I still
miss England, (god save the queen, tea, football and stuff...), so every chance I get I watch
my favorite programs, (no, not Eastender or Coronation street!).But ...
(more)What should I do next? (Saturday 04th of August 2007 09:45:58 AM)
Hi, I am kind-of running out things to do at the moment, (to make JH a better place to blog),
and I am supposed to go to the shop to get ingredients for sangria, (The wife and I are going
to a Mexican evening ...
(more)Those of you that use adsense. (Thursday 02nd of August 2007 06:44:00 AM)
There are a few of you that use Google Adsense on their blogs.Someone asked me if the ads could
be added to your profile or your wall.If you don't like it or if you would rather that it'd be
optional then please let me know ...
(more)Plugin Project Playlist (Tuesday 31st of July 2007 07:51:25 PM)
I had a request for another play list type of embedded player so, here is is, (below the
MyBlogLog and FineTune). Project playlist is another great player that is apparently better,
(but, it is not for me to decide).Personally I prefer the way the play ...
(more)Stopping bad behavior (Monday 30th of July 2007 11:02:59 AM)
As you know, I am always on the lookout for ways of securing your blogs, (and the whole site as
well), and preventing comment/trackback spam from happening. I found a great site,
http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/, that offers a great script to monitor ...
(more)Plugin - MyBlogLog (Friday 27th of July 2007 03:19:00 PM)
Hi, I added the MyBlogLog.com plugin as well.As usual I am my own guinea pig and I added it
on my sidebar.Time will tell how many people, (registered at MyBlogLog.com), will actually
visit my site.If you are a MyBloglog.com please tell me what the ...
(more)Plugin - Finetune (Thursday 26th of July 2007 08:06:00 PM)
<diggthis align=left>I added a finetune plugin for all of you to use. If you don't
know about finetune, I suggest you head over to their sites and register.You will need to
choose 45 songs and then you can embed, (that's putting it in your blog ...
(more)Social Bookmarking (Tuesday 24th of July 2007 06:03:00 AM)
<diggthis align='left'>I have added a social bookmarking option under the settings
option. I have enabled it by default for all, But of course you can turn it off if you don't
want it there.All the new tags are <IfSocial><%Social%></IfSocial> ...
(more)I won't do that again in a hurry! (Monday 23rd of July 2007 10:43:58 AM)
Ok, so the move to the new server did not go as smoothly as I was hoping, the hosting company
made me all kind of promises that they did not keep. But in the end if was my fault, I should
have been more careful ...
(more)All in the cache... again (Thursday 19th of July 2007 12:45:00 PM)
Since October last year I have been caching some of the old entries from users that had not
visited the site for a while. It allowed me to iron out a few problems with caching pages, (as
you can set various privacy levels for ...
(more)Moving to a new server. (Thursday 19th of July 2007 06:44:11 AM)
As some of you know, I have been wanting to move to a new server for a while now and
JournalHome is very close to running out of space, (some say it is a good thing).But more
importantly it should make the whole thing a ...
(more)Windows Live Writer Tutorial (Wednesday 18th of July 2007 06:11:15 PM)
Hi, <diggthis align=left>If you want to setup JournalHome.com to use Windows Live Writer
then you can follow this very simple steps.Note WLW, (Windows Live Write), is still in Beta but
I doubt that it will change much. It might also look a bit ...
(more)JournalHome now Compatible with most publishing applications. (Wednesday 18th of July 2007 05:28:00 AM)
<diggthis align=right>I have added the possibility to edit your posts with desktop blog
publishing applications. You can use all the big name, (I am using Windows Live Writer to
create this post). This is very nice if you want to edit your blog ...
(more)Did you see that? (Saturday 14th of July 2007 06:31:00 AM)
I just ran an update on some 30 files internally all in preparation to a a new cozier server.no
one should notice any difference really as all the changes were internal. It should improve
speed a little, but truth be told I doubt anyone, (apart ...
(more)Upgraded the messages. (Wednesday 11th of July 2007 06:44:00 AM)
Hi, Just a quick little note to let you know what I have been doing.I upgraded my computer this
week-end so I didn't have time to do much, (actually I went to the Durban July, but that's
another story) I upgraded the messages ...
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