I’m testing out the MaemoWordPy client for Wordpress on the Nokia N800.

Back in July me and Hel went for a walk round Dolgoch Falls near Abergynolwyn. I’ve just got round to putting the photos online.

I finally got round to upgrading the blog to WordPress 2.6.1 last night and it seemed to go without a hitch. It was my first upgrade of WordPress so I checked their site for upgrade instructions before I went through the process, and to my surprise the page had already been upgraded for 2.6.1. The documentation for WordPress is fantastic and proof that an open source project can do it just as well as a commercial offering.

I’ve finally uploaded the photos from my trip to New York City back in 2005 after being reminded by Rhys‘ recent trip to New York. In summary I had a fantastic time and can’t believe nearly 3 years have passed already. I can’t wait to go back! If you get the chance, go, you won’t regret it!

A few of my favourite photos are included below…

I’ve been tweaking my theme recently to make it more search engine friendly and it seems to have worked as I’m getting a few hits direct to posts from Google searches. In case anyone is wondering I’ve just made sure the HTML meta tags always have values (using the post excerpt & tags) and that the post title comes first in the page title if applicable. I know there are some plugins I could have used to do the same job however I learnt quite a bit about Wordpress themes in achieving my goal. I’m more familiar with Wordpress and themes now than I was before anyway.

Does anyone have any other SEO tips they can suggest?

After a break of nearly 5 years, my blog is back.

I first started blogging back in 2002. I posted about anything and everything that interested me, the blog also allowed me to document my many attempts to quit smoking. The blog only lasted a year due to various reasons however in 2005 I finally quit smoking!

So why have I started again?

Well I’m a web developer without any presence on the Internet which just isn’t right. Last year I decided to correct this by creating a personal web site. While deciding what to put on the site the idea of having a blog again came about. Since then I’ve found myself thinking about things that occur in daily life that I could have blogged about. I finally decided to do something about it and set up a blog so I have an outlet for my rants!

I should also say that the inspriation to get off my arse and actually get this blog up and running was finding out that 2 people I know through “real life” had blogs (hat tip: Rhys & Andrew). I suggest you go and check their blogs out as they are both an excellent read!

I’m still getting to grips with Wordpress so expect changes to the blog fairly often!