One Million Views!

Overnight this blog joined the millionaire's club and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's visited the site since 2007 and issue a special "thank you" to my regular readers.

I'd also like to thank all the Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and other third world bot networks that helped me reach this milestone.

Onwards and upwards!

Blog Tidy Up & Future Proofing

Over the last week I've gone through all 470 odd pages on this blog to: 

• Remove dead links to long defunct sites like dmbmm.org.uk & the DBMMList on Yahoo! Groups.
• Check for malformed links (of which there were quite a few in the early days).
• Correct various errors in the html code (my sloppy editing).
• Remove a few early pages that only pointed to defunct sites.
• Future proofed how internal links are coded (a major task).

So, as always, if you find any broken links please leave a comment and I will endeavour to fix them.

Site Improvements (Index)

This is not really a hobby related post.  It's also going to get very "techie" very quickly.

I've spent the last two or three days trying to make sense of the growing number of posts here.  As a result I have had to dive deep into the bowels of Google's API for Blogger.  I thought it would be simple!  My efforts are presented here to help any bloggers interested in doing likewise.

All avowedly "non-techie" people should look away now.

Change To The RSS Feed

Until today the main RSS feed for this blog contained all the text of each post. I usually prefer it this way as you can read the posts in an RSS reader rather than have to visit the site.

Unfortunately, there's an increasing trend of "harvesting" sites.  They use full RSS feeds to transfer posts from blogs like mine to their own blog.  All without asking permission. I'm not talking about the various news & compilation sites which just post links and snippets.

The "harvesting" blogs are set up to re-post content automatically and seem to be created solely to make money from advertising. Of course I get nothing in return for my work.