I generally assume that people who read blogs use an RSS reader, like Google Reader or FeedDemon (which is what I use), rather than hopping from one website to another in your web browser. You can even use Outlook 2007 or 2010 to gather blog updates automatically. But talking to friends and acquaintances leads me to suspect that not many people are using feed readers.
So in response to a few requests, I’ve added a “subscribe by email” box on the top right of the my blog. If you want an automatic email every time a new blog post appears here, please put your email address into the box and press the subscribe button. You’ll get an email asking you to click a link to confirm that you really do want to receive updates. Once you’ve pressed OK on that, you’ll get every new article by email.
Please let me know if you experience any problems making this work.
You can also follow me on twitter (@owenbarder).
(For the technically minded, I’m using the Subscribe2 WordPress plugin.)
The internet has been running very slowly in Ethiopia for most of the past week. This may be caused by congestion, or possibly by the cable that was severed near Egypt on Thursday.
But I’ve been able to get online this morning, so I took the opportunity to upgrade my website. I’m now using WordPress 2.7 for all the pages (instead of using PHP pages for static pages and WordPress for this blog). That means, for example, that it is possible to add comments to almost any page on the website, and that site-wide search works.
I’ve also changed the design of the site in the hope that it looks more modern. (I see now that the graphics which look good in Firefox look pretty ropey in Internet Explorer, so I’ll try to fix that later).
I encountered one technical problem during the updated. When I tried to log in to the upgraded site, I got this message:
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
If you get this problem, the solution is below the fold.
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