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I recently acquired a dead Dell 4700 desktop machine from my father. After replacing the power supply, adding some memory and a gigabit ethernet card, it was ready to go. I’d been thinking for some time of setting up a Linux-based home server for print sharing and backup. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 desktop and proceeded [...]

This blog has become schizophrenic; rather than blogging about one thing, it’s covering many aspects of my life. So I thought I’d find a way to present different views. I had already categorised my posts into general areas, now I needed a way to present the different views with some commentary. The best way was [...]

One of the main parts of this blog is the Now Reading Reloaded plugin for managing the books I’m reading and have read. The plugin is great providing library, page, author, tag and search views. It also has a review/rating system where you can rate a book and write a review. However it does not [...]

During my recent them upgrade I had some challenges with the Now Reading Reloaded plugin for WordPress and the frustrating “HTTP 500: Internal Server Error” messages. This took me on a journey of exploration into how the php modules used by WordPress and its plugins ended up as HTML on my browser and what logs [...]

When I first joined LinkedIn I got excited about their book/library plugin… until my colleagues got annoyed with constant updates when I finished a book and started another. Then I found the Now Reading Reloaded plugin for WordPress. With the recent theme upgrade I had a few challenges updating the CSS and Page Templates used [...]