MisterCow.com

In an effort to make my site a little more user friendly and accessible, I've altered the way links to direct posts are handled.

The change hasn't made any great difference to how the site works, but now direct links to posts include the title of the post in the URL so you know what you're going to be looking at, for example; the link to this post will be:

Site Enhancement

This might even make my pages a little more search friendly too, one can only hope.

Hmm, well, apparently my RSS was a little screwy. I've fixed all the apparent bugs in it now, and it should work fine.

You can find the RSS here if you haven't already found it.

Been such a long time since I posted, heh.

Guess I never really have anything worth talking about to post, lol.

Currently having my Easter break. Got a week left before I go back to uni :( Next week I need to get on with a load of Math coursework and a group project we were assigned. Already got a design that I think I'll use (here) so I guess half my work is done for the group project already :)

Anyways, I will try and post again soon... But no guarantees :P

I haven't posted in a little while so I thought I'd make a post. I'm currently at Uni, joy... So I've had to VNC onto my Mac to be able to make this post, seeing as my laptop is the only place I can post to my blog from :D heh.

There's a couple more things on the right since I last posted about the site, and I've also made a Last.fm parser, but I dcan't think of anywhere to actually put it on my site D: oh well.

I submitted my blog to a advertisement company recently and after a few days I got an email telling me I'd been rejected. Apparently I'd overlooked adding an archive feature to my blog - whoops.

Anyway, I've added it now and resubmitted my application, huzzah!

Archive link is on the right.

I've just added a "Quicklinks" bar to the right hand side of the page. At the moment it's got my friends Roy and sAM listed, but I'll be adding to it progressively as I find things to add.

Also, I submitted my blog to Technorati yesterday. Technorati is a blog directory service that provides blog searching features (so I don't have to code my own, yay) and link back tracing, as well as many other things.

If Technorati works as it should, Roy should get a linkback thing from this post and maybe even the link on the right, heh.

Well, it's been just over two months and my blog system seems to be holding out alright, which is nice, seeing as I can't think of anything to add to the site other than my blog posts.

I probably wouldn't even be posting to my blog if it weren't for my Widget that I made. It just makes life so much easier when I want to post to my blog.

It works a bit like this:

1. Hit F12 for Dashboard
2. Click to add a new entry
3. Type blog entry
4. Hit Submit
5. ???
6. Profit!

And it makes blogging very pleasant.

Due to popular (Mandy) demand, I've set up a gallery for all the pictures I dump in my /x/ directory.

It's using some spiffy lightbox v2 javascript stuffs. The rest of it I wrote myself, which is basically why it sucks, whee...

I think I can safely say that my guestbook is finished. You can find it up at the top ^.

I've disabled HTML, because I know for a fact people will try to abuse it - I've already had one friend ask if they can use HTML.

Instead, I've added some BBCode like tags; [b][/b] for bold, [u][/u] for underlined and [i][/i] for oblique.

Feel free to leave me a message.

So, I've got my blog up and running and in the previous post I said I needed a nice interface...

Well I have a nice interface now, like I wanted. It's in the form of a Dashboard Widget for OS X.

Here's a screenshot of me writing this post:

Well, I've scrapped the old blog system and killed all the old posts.

I'm now using a blog system I put together myself that spans 1 file and is a whole 12kb big. Just a bit smaller than the old wordpress, heh.

I should probably write myself a nice little interface for actually posting blog articles, manually inserting them via SQL queries isn't particularly fun...

Anyways, this is my first post on my homebrew system. The first of many, hopefully.