The other day I stumbled across the site Bush Fail and that inspired me to do the same for the very “photogenic” Hillary Rodham Clinton so I just finished setting up Bucket loads of Hillary Fail. So please check it out and let me know what you think!
I fully expect the site to hit the front page of Digg before long given how fanatical the Obama supports are there so the site is setup with WP Super Cache and all images are stored on Amazon S3 so it should be able to survive the Digg effect and even a Slashdot effect at the same time!
A photo of me kissing a pink dolphin at Sentosa Island in Singapore. We had gotten to the dolphin show at Dolphin Cove on Sentosa Island just after it started and midway into the show they were after two volunteers to play with the dolphins that would involve going into the water up into your neck… I did a quick check of what I was wearing and the heavy shorts I was wearing would be a real pain to get wet but I said to heck with it and started waving. to my surprise I was chosen.
So after emptying my pockets I headed down and the first thing the little girl (that was also chosen) and I had to do was hula hoop while the dolphins played behind us and of course I was a complete & utter failure at that! Then it was fun time! I got to wade out and meet the pink dolphin, give it a hug, then it wanted to kiss me (as per the photo) and then I got to feed the dolphin. Overall it was a very cool experience, unfortunately I didn’t get any Flipper like action and didn’t get to hold onto it’s dorsal fin to go along for a ride but maybe next time!
[tag]blog[/tag]I have no idea how long it was broken but I finally upgraded the FAlbum plugin I use for my Flickr feed on my sidebar and got it working again so there are no more broken images and all is right with the world again!
I keep tabs on some of my popular search key phrases and the search results have long since annoyed me but I have only now gotten around to doing something about it, firstly I’ve gotten rid of the jasonbainbridge.com - Blog Archive - prefix when viewing individual articles as that just wasn’t attracting people to click, plus I setup the meta description tag to only be used on the home page so the search snippet was useful on Google plus to make it more MSN friendly I moved the Previous / Next links to the bottom of individual posts.
Hopefully that gets me a little more traffic because on MSN my site ranks pretty highly on most key phrases that my site uses.
To PHP 5 or not to PHP 5? That is the question… I guess what I mainly need to do is check compatibility with WHM and cPanel as they would also be affected, from what I’ve heard Wordpress runs fine and the other software I want to play with should do as well.
Well it took a while to get things setup right for the new VPS, especially as I didn’t realize you had to register your new nameservers so I think the DNS is still propagating here & there but it all seems to be working fine now, at first PHP wasn’t compiled with libcurl so the del.icio.us stuff wasn’t working but I upgraded PHP to 4.4 and aded libcurl support in so it all looks sweet so far!
I don’t really need it at the moment but I just signed up for a VPS plan at A Small Orange, I had been eyeing the plans for a while now as I’d like to have that flexibility there to install things that I wouldn’t be able to on a shared server, nothing bad just things like Trac that require a wide range of things to be installed plus having root access to a real server on the net just seems really cool!
Once it is setup I will transfer jasonbainbridge.com over pretty quickly but wiki.kde.org will have to be planned and co-ordinated so that will take more effort and hence stay on MR Lazy’s TO-DO list for a while.
Just in case I somehow end up getting a deluge of hits for whatever reason I have just installed the excellent WP Cache 2 plugin so my pages are smartly cached for example by posting this post it will clear the appropriate caches allowing this post to appear instantly.
If anyone notices any weirdness caused by this please let me know although I’m not expecting any problems but it could well improve performance, which would be nice.
It seems Google AdSense and sites served as application/xhtml+xml don’t get along well due to the document.write calls the Google AdSense Javascript uses so seeing as I am experimenting with adding some hopefully unobtrusive AdSense ads to select posts I have temporarily reverted to serving text/html for all browsers until I can come up with a workaround.
