{"id":184,"date":"2007-03-06T12:19:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T12:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/184"},"modified":"2014-04-17T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T10:00:20","slug":"review-of-2006-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/184","title":{"rendered":"Review of 2006 +2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was glancing back over past posts and realised that I hadn&#8217;t reported back on what happened last year so better late than never (as they say), hence it covers 14 months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Very little has been done on <a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/\">West Penwith Resources<\/a> though I note that 14 major new sections were added at the start of the year bring it up to 857 pages. The promised makeover never happened. The primary cause was a major commitment offline which took up a large proportion of my time; I even had to drop work on the Census project for a while.\n<\/li>\n<li>Custom fonts were abandoned. I came to the conclusion that not enough browsers supported them and the bandwidth penalty was too high.\n<\/li>\n<li>I surprised myself by keeping up a flow of posts to the blog, managing one or two most weeks. Accidentally I seem to have become a national authority on the Renault Laguna, the Advent GPS system and mobile phone scammers, none of which I know a lot about.\n<\/li>\n<li>This was the year that blog comment spam became a problem. I first installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet plugin<\/a> which trapped it nicely and then, later, <a href=\"http:\/\/boakes.org\/software\">Worst Offenders<\/a> to manage the collected spam and attempt to block it at source.\n<\/li>\n<li>email spam got completely out of hand so I had to abandon the open domain approach and restrict addresses to a short list which involved changing a large number of sign-on accounts. It is now down to manageable proportions again.\n<\/li>\n<li>Other than that and a small hiccup mid-year, email has been working reasonably well. I did consider changing supplier but the only one I contacted never replied. I don&#8217;t know how easy it is to separate email from hosting on the same domain.\n<\/li>\n<li>The site is now running as a search engine for the <a href=\"http:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com\/~kayhin\/ukocp.html\">Cornwall Online Census Project<\/a> as their server doesn&#8217;t allow scripting. It is the biggest bandwidth user on my site but keeps the load down (and hence the host company happy) by using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrensoft.com\/zoom\/\">Zoom<\/a> CGI rather than PHP engine.\n<\/li>\n<li>Offline I have finally detached myself from MS Office and gave away my copy to a deserving cause. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice 2<\/a> is good and the retraining curve has not been too great. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/\">Firefox 2<\/a> upgrade was painless and has improved the spelling on this site by checking before posting.\n<\/li>\n<li>While installing a new home computer (a traumatic and very time consuming business) I took the opportunity of re-organising our file server so that it is automatically backed up and can hence hold archive as well as backup files. I have fine tuned the client backups so they are easy to run (using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backup4all.com\/\">Backup4all<\/a>). I use my home setup as a sandbox for the church system which is run largely unattended and used by non-technical people so it has to be low impact.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For this year &#8230; ? I am wary of making resolutions as I met so few of them last year; any way it is a bit late now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will have to jump to <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress 2.1<\/a> soon and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/thunderbird\/\">Thunderbird<\/a> 2 is promised as well. From past experience these will be quite easy. Vista is not even in my range of vision.\n<\/li>\n<li>I am getting concerned that the UPS I installed is having a measurable impact on our electricity bill over and above having things like the server and network equipment on all the time; I need to find a way of measuring it.\n<\/li>\n<li>A longer term project will be changing the <a href=\"http:\/\/stmatthews-bristol.org.uk\/\">church website<\/a> over to a content management system, probably WordPress, but I don&#8217;t know if it will be this year.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was glancing back over past posts and realised that I hadn&#8217;t reported back on what happened last year so better late than never (as they say), hence it covers 14 months. 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