Mark Staples

I’ve finally upgraded from my original installation of Wordpress 1.5.2 to Wordpress 2.1.2, mainly to take advantage of the Akismet spam catcher. I’ve been getting 3 dozen spam comments a day, which I’ve had to manually delete, but hopefully I won’t see any more spam now. I was going to upgrade earlier, to Wordpress 2.1.1, but my procrastination has paid off, because a hacker broke into the Wordpress download site and added a back door to that version.

I don’t know if you, as a reader, will notice much of a difference right now. But, “when I get around to it”, I think I’ll install a new theme - hopefully one that handles wide screens more gracefully.

I’ve added “Software” and “Homebrew” categories to cover most of the posts I’ve made so far. It’s not turning out to be a high-volume blog, but at least it will be a slightly better organized one now.

This is my first entry - who knows how my blogging experience will work out!

I was attracted to WordPress because it supported multiple categories, and had a simple non-blog page managment facility that meant it could be my home page as well as my blog. And of course it promised to work out of the box on my webhost, and was free!

I’m mostly using the web interface to post entries and manage the site, but also have installed the windows blogging client Qumana. I’ve chosen it because it is free and it seems to work! (Which seemed not to be true for me with the Ecto and W-Bloggar clients.)