Blogger bug fixed

Reading time: < 1 min So it seems that Blogger have a solution for their recently introduced layout problems. Log in to Blogger. On the dashboard, select your blog. Select the Settings tab. Select the Formatting option. Scroll down and set Enable float alignment to No. This will stop Blogger adding those nasty <div clear:both> tags. Everything is explained in […]

Snippets

Reading time: < 1 min Well done Canada and Spain. ~ That other site I run has just hit a landmark, 300 members. Wow. It’s been a fun couple of years and I’m hoping the next couple will be even better (irons in fire, etc etc). ~ Now, I have to admit I feel slightly guilty* when I go on […]

Handling Referrer Spam

Reading time: 2 mins Thankfully this is not an area I’ve had much experience in, so I’ve done a little Googling and come up with some interesting ideas and ways to handle referrer spam. Firstly it helps to know if you are being hit hard by it, and for that you’ll need access to server logs or a basic […]

Yen Rotunda

Reading time: 2 mins Off to dinner at Yen Rotunda, a yen oriental & teppanyaki restaurant, where 20 or so of us will be dining in the teppanyaki section. It’s my first time in that restaurant and my first time experiencing teppanyaki and I’m quite looking forward to it. The fact that the company is stumping up the lion […]

Torquay

Reading time: < 1 min So on Friday we head for sunny Torquay, the place where the world’s most famous mystery writer, Agatha Christie, was born in 1890. Torquay as we know it dates back to the end of the 18th Century, with the source of the name still offering some confusion. It’s either the “little harbour” (Torre Quay) or […]

Referrer Spam

Reading time: < 1 min Well it looks like the buggers are at it again. Anyone else getting huge numbers of referrer links from the likes of: potassium-rich-foods DOT ipupdater DOT com topamax-side-effects DOT ipupdater DOT com ambien-side-effects DOT ipupdater DOT us And will someone PLEASE tell me what they are trying to achieve with this? Is someone actually paying […]