Archive for July, 2008

Good riddance to bad Starbucks

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

So it appears we Aussies don’t like Starbucks enough for them to hang around. They’re closing 61 stores in Melbourne, and I, for one, am delighted to see them go. (My husband is another who feels the same way.)
Like all good coffee drinkers, we were curious when Starbucks opened here. We’d heard of the name, [...]

Bandwidth Theft

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I’ve been put out of business for two weeks. A number of lowlifes with MySpace accounts and some random ignominious bloggers decided to steal my bandwidth by illegally hotlinking to my images. They sucked more than three-quarters of my bandwidth in two days, and yesterday I went to publish something to my website only to [...]

Gravatar - Kudos!

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

I now have to give a big thumbs up to Gravatar for following up on this even when I decided that creating a new account name meant that the problem was half-fixed and I couldn’t be bothered any further. The different name meant I could get the avatar on my blog page, but not on [...]

Gravatar 2 - I gave up

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I gave up.
Gravatar didn’t read the email I sent them, but they did respond. They told me to do exactly what I’d told them I’d already done.
So I told them that. They emailed back (actually this time within a few minutes) and said try logging into WordPress.com.
So I tried to log into WordPress. No go. [...]

Organising and Updating 100+ Lenses

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Yup. It’s a lot of lenses to keep track of. Even if you have 50, you probably feel like you’re doing a bit of a juggling act.
I’m thrilled to bits with the new(ish) Dashboard features. Here’s how I’ve arranged my updating schedule:
 
In addition to all the other labels I’ve madly created, I’ve added four new [...]

Gravatar

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Deep breath. I’m going to try this Gravatar thingy again. How can something be so complicated? My two weeks are long up, so hopefully that has erased any stupid mistake I made last time I tried it. Wish me luck!