Category: Work/Technical

Making my blog more social?

To many people the internet is still something to be wary about, a huge thing that only nerds and rocket scientists can understand, although to many of us its familiar, useful and in many ways our home-from-home.

I have been using the internet for personal and business-y related stuff for 12 years now – and for most of that time i have had some form of website or blog. However, it is only the last few years that i have started to truly understand the potential there is to be had from a highly ranked long-standing website.

So i have decided to start making my blog more visable to the world in an attempt to spread my very limited knowledge just that little bit further.

The last few months has seen me dive in to the world of twitter head first, and to be honest its the only social networking site i have ever really liked! And i have recently picked up the slack in regards blogging about stuff. I had really died down with it due to other work commitments.

I dont particularly want to use the sidebar widgets that my mate wiggy uses – he gets a lot of traffic and comments from them, but in order to get this traffic he has to browse sites and do stuff in return and i am a busy guy so allocating time to do that is harder than you might imagine.

So i have decided to use the power of wordpress and its huge plugin database to help make my blog more social.

Im using twitpress which posts a message to my twitter page every time i add a new blog entry (dont worry i dont blog that often) Its something i try and do now and then anyway, so having a plugin do it for me automatically is just a bonus really!

I am also going to give my blog an overhaul using the thesis framework as it is something i have bought recenlty and have been using for a while – and i love it!

Once i have the design out the way i’m also gonna look at other subtle ways to get my blog noticed a bit more on the internet.

If anyone has any ideas then feel free to leave a comment! 🙂

27 April 2009
The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

I have had my new laptop for a whole day and i have already had one major error that made the thing useless. I rebooted after McAfee said it had installed some updates and when it came back around i got this error;

“The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.”

It logged me out and sat there asking for a password.

What?!

I tried a different password as i wasn’t sure if it was vistas way of saying “Wrong password dummy” – but it wasn’t – it said that the password was wrong.

So i grabbed gemmas laptop and started looking online for solutions.

I found this website with a step by step guide to fix the problem. The actual problem its self is something to do with the user account going into backup mode. There are sa few variations of the problem, I had the one with the two entries in the registry and once i got to step 8 i deleted the old backup entry and then rebooted and logged in fine.

No one seems clear on why the problem arises – but at least we know how to sort it.

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21 April 2009
My first ever brand new computer

I have been using computers for well over 10 years now, and i have always had things i have bought cheap, or i have blagged from somewhere or another. Well today, all that changed!

Presenting……..

Today i took delivery of a brand new sony vaio vgn-ar88e!

Its absolutely massive! It has a 17″ screen, and its so big i cant fit it in my bag! We have waited so long for hardware that will allow us to work at our pace and not at the computers!

Im still in the process of setting everything up, but im sure that will only take another couple of hours 🙂

I just cant get over how bloody BIG it is! 😆

Ill continue to update my blog regarding how i get on on with it – so far so good though, the screen is very bright and the keyboard is a good size etc. Some of the panels covering network ports and stuff feel a bit flimsy – but then again i don’t expect ill be using them very much.

Off to bed now – no, not with the laptop! 🙂 :/

20 April 2009
0lly.uk dominates google

Ive recently been drooling over a new domain name that i kinda really want to buy. Its £50 for one year which i think is a lot of money for something that could end up being another surplus domain.

The domain name is 0l.ly (with a zero)

Now if it was ol.ly i would snap it up regardless of cost as it would be perfect. But as the available one is with a zero i have my doubts. Ill mull it over and see if i can find the cash spare sometime soon.

Anyway…

I have always wanted olly.co.uk (not with a zero) so i do some digging every now and then to see if it might of been left to expire and whatnot. After a whois check i decided to see if anyone had talked about the domain name before. And look what i was greeted with..

Haha, how cool is that? I was always worried that if i told people my site was “0lly.uk” they would write it wrong and not get here – olly.co.uk doesn’t resolve a website at the mo so if they google it they will find me anyway!

Good times!

17 April 2009