I am sitting here in parko Georgiadou in the centre of Iraklio, a frappé in front of me, latin music floating in from behind, painstakingly composing this post on the small iPhone keyboard while keeping a worried eye on my battery indicator. It went from 61% to 47% in the last 10 minutes. This...
Read more →I recently volunteered to assist in the migration of a wordpress.com hosted blog to a self-hosted installation of the open source wordpress CMS. As far as the technical aspects were concerned all went pretty smooth. The challenge appeared to be to make the self-hosted site look exactly like the wordpress.com hosted blog.
Read more →Local time: 17:54:00 (GMT +3) I’m in the process of upgrading the WordPress software that drives this blog. As a result you might experience some unexpected effects or missing functionality. Please be patient, I expect to be finished in 1 hour.
Read more →You have all been extremely patient with me! At long last I found a mechanism to put my photos online in a way that doesn’t clash with the rest of the layout (as previously under MovableType), thanks to WordPress and it’s many plugins. Speaking of plugs, I use here a WordPress module called NextGEN...
Read more →Well, I fixed them, the permalinks. A permalink of course is a URL that points to a specific blog entry even after the entry has passed from the front page into the blog archives, or — in my case — to a completely different system. Because a permalink remains unchanged indefinitely, it is less...
Read more →Day 13. I went down to the city centre today to plead with kyría Ioanna (the new DSL tsarina) to speed up the process of downgrading me to 4Mbps. She really did her best, talking to various persons on the phone, to make my case a priority. I’m now back home for 3 hours...
Read more →Welcome, welcome! You’re looking at my new blog! Actually it is the same blog, but the software that powers it is new: I changed from MovableType to WordPress. The reason? It was about time that I upgraded my old MovableType installation which hadn’t changed since 2004 and which was creaking at its seams. Moreover...
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