After posting up the last entry about SSH I noticed that I had a problem with my Permalinks. Seems that there is some nasty little injection problem with WordPress that changes the Permalinks with the addition of.

I am following the suggestions here:

http://blog.4rev.net/2009-09/wordpress-hacked-eval-base64_decode-_serverhttp_referer/

And it seemed to work.

So I was thinking what have I/We bought in the last year that was new..

Well I think top of the list are:

• Pioneer plasma TV. We already had TVs but this looks and performs about as well as you can get right now.
• Harman Kardon 7.1 surround sound amp. We needed a solution for the bedroom and living room for surround sound so I upgraded to this and kept the old amp for the bedroom. It supports Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD MA and all the lesser formats.
• MacBook – Kristin needed a computer.
• Cables. New installations require many cables.

But come to think of it a lot of stuff we have bought secondhand such as tools, bikes and so forth.

As well as having a wonderful name, Julene has been making some pretty damn nice paper cut work such as these:

More at: http://madebyjulene.com/

As promised I have updated this site to the latest version of WordPress – 2.7

Its actually really impressive, and really shows why I updated to an off-the-shelf blogging tool instead of sticking with my own home grown set up several years ago.

I also cleared up many of the problems with images being aligned on the site, and finally have decent code previews thanks to the CodeColorer plugin by Dmytro.

There is probably some work to be done on making sure the feeds are 100% and then on to the design – the grid is totally messed up, but at least I feel confident in the software backing this up now.

It seems that my move of feeds from feedburner to the google feedburner service has messed up my RSS feeds quite a bit. Not sure what has happened or why the links on my site got messed up, but its probably something to do with the plugin that I had installed.

All in all it highlights the need for me to update this site from its current version of WordPress to the latest version.

I will be doing that shortly. Hopefully then the RSS feeds will resume properly.

From http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001395.html

Well not really, but every year I do some maintenance to make sure whatever I am using is up to date and fresh and this includes installing the latest versions and services packs to everything including:

* VLC
* Microsoft Office 2008
* skype

skype 2.8 Beta is the one that I am looking forward to using, included in the new features is screen sharing – which apparently works across different operating systems, which should prove really handy for debugging and helping my parents with their PC from my Mac. Not sure about the new design of the chat window though, those icons don’t seem as smooth as their previous versions:

I have also cleaned out a lot of files, and Time Machine backups to make sure that I am only backing up the content that really matters to me. Deleting backups is as simple as going into time machine, going to the backup window that you wish to delete and from the gears menu choosing “Delete backup”.

I will deleting hidden backup files was as easy.

Now I am just waiting for my body to adjust to daylight again!

So its 2009, and it came around all too quickly. I can see from MarsEdit that the amount of posts that I have put on this blog is quite down from a couple of years ago, which is testament to how busy I have been.

For the Christmas period I tried to step away from my computer a bit and calm down, and the other period I was in Karlstad enjoying the festivities and doing a small amount of work and reading the great RESTful Web Services book.

But soon its back to work, and so back to computers, renovating the apartment (soon it will be done!) and back to everything else that makes up my day.

I have been thinking about what I New Years resolutions I should do and I have so far only come up with the following:

• Give up Snus
• Post more on this blog
• Create something of value
• Become more self sufficient
• Try not to kill every plant I ever get
• Increase my fitness

Of course, I could probably do all of these, but with such goals is it just setting myself up for failure, so what can I do towards them and why am I doing them (if you wonder why I am posting this then these posts often serve as a reminder to myself of what I should be concentrating on and as a diary for the future).

1. Why do I want to give up snus – its messing with my gums and together we spend 29000Kr a year on it. I think thats reason enough, rather than just doing it.

2. Post more on this blog – it serves me in many ways, and more often than not I post for myself to remind me of what I am doing rather than keeping a diary. Its not hard to do, I just have to remember to do it!

3. Create something of value – this could be the hardest if I wasn’t already started on this. I feel I really am doing so at work with the redesign that I am working on, and in my personal life I am probably adding value, but there is much more planned for this year.

4. Become more self sufficient – This is a very open goal that encompasses much, such as being more energy sufficient, growing my own herbs, not spending 500Kr every day in the supermarket on rubbish, cleaning green and many more improvements to my living style. I should make a list on this one!

5. Try not to kill every plant I get – Well I am quite bad at understanding the needs of a plant, and so I need to find out more about that. Perhaps it will even be enjoyable?

6. Get fitter. My fitness level is quite poor even though my body is perhaps in the best shape its been in for many years. I have a skiing trip planned this year and that is an excellent goal for getting fitter.

So thats it. 2009 a year of none resolute improvements.

It was brought to my attention yesterday that I haven’t been blogging that much recently, being busy with other things means that I haven’t had time to reflect on what I have been up to.

Reflecting upon the blog itself, in its current form I started it on October 23rd, 2003 – almost 5 years ago. I actually had an older blog with custom PHP that I wrote before that, and even longer before that I had an HTML blog that I edited in a text editor. Adding up to about 10 years of blogging. I have thought about taking these older posts and including them in this blog but they seem so old now that they really are not relevant to anyone – and contain nothing interesting about my personal life so I see no need to drag up old technology for the sake of it.

Looking at the blog for a moment it really does need some work, the images are all over the place, the text formatting is quite awful – particularly when I post code and some of the images for older posts just don’t exist any more. In the future I will learn to get the images on to the localsite instead of linking. I guess either I have to get down and sort it out (unlikely with everyone else going on)

So what have I been up to. Well I have spent quite a lot time working with Django in my personal time. I love that framework though the recent upgrade from a point release to 1.0 caused some major headaches.

At work we have released Viz|Link, which I have been working on for a long time, and I am currently working on GUI work and doing some C++ coding.

Home is looking like a home more and more. Almost all the boxes are gone and there is just some building work to be done. And all the painting – only the first hall way has been tackled at the moment. Photos soon…

Other than that I am going to England this weekend as long as I can find a hotel and K&I are doing Cuban Salsa every week which is fun. Svenska lessons start next month – can’t wait!

I wish I could provide an update on all the food & drinking places that I have been going to in Stockholm but memory is drawing a blank at the moment. This will have to do for now.

Well I decided to update the blogging software that I use – Wordpress, to the latest version. I guess that I will be trying to sort out problems for a while ;-)

It does seem more responsive – but it has messed up a few things.