2008 April

_Apr 21 08

Dreamhost have done it again. Imagine you are a blogger with a ten year blogging anniversary coming up in the next few months. Then, for no valid reason and with no notice, Dreamhost cancels your account and refuses to give you access to any working backups. And, to make matters worse, the […]

_Dreamhost destroys a ten year old blog

_Apr 18 08

_Ashley Morgan_Blogging_1 Comment

Picture the scene. Three independent musicians discussing their careers and hatching a plan to create and launch their own independent record label. One of those musicians was, and still is, me. Big Arena Records was the name chosen for the venture and until recently it remained a plan.
Today, I took the first […]

_Building an independent record label using wordpress in ten weeks

_Apr 17 08

_Ashley Morgan_Software_2 Comments

The open source movement, from Wordpress to Linux and back again, has a strength that no closed organization or movement has or will ever have.
I’m referring to community.
I recently decided to install Linux on a Sony laptop. Sony’s engineers had locked the machine into it’s Windows centric ways so tightly that getting […]

_The future is open source

_Apr 16 08

_Ashley Morgan_Blogging Money_2 Comments

Upstart Blogger has never accepted bribes of any description. Paying for blog reviews, or any sort of pay per post transaction, is something that I’ve never liked. It destroys the integrity of linking blog is something that should be avoided by any blogger who wants to be taken seriously.
However, it’s a phenomenon that […]

_Please do not ask for a paid blog review as refusal often offends

_Apr 15 08

_Ashley Morgan_Money_4 Comments

Confused? Me too. WPDesigner went on the market a little while ago with a price tag of around $65,000. It sold, according to a reliable sourceQ, for less than half that amount. The new owner, Pawel Ciszewski, has done apparently nothing with it apart from write a quick introductory post.
I’ve written […]

_WPDesigner.com is for sale again

_Apr 11 08

_Ashley Morgan_WordPress_4 Comments

I’m concerned that my recent Wordpress 2.5 upgrade has caused the recent problem with Trackbacks and Pingbacks so I’m going to spend the rest of the afternoon backing up Upstart Blogger and reinstalling Wordpress from scratch. During this time all of the plugins will be disabled so the page will almost certainly throw up […]