Category: Housekeeping

A couple of things. Firstly, a reader asked whether we could revert to a previous set-up on our home page, so that all posts were visible in their entirety, rather than having three in full and the rest as a couple of columns of excerpts. “I dislike having to scan sideways and click through to read fairly recent posts,” was the reason.

Well, I don’t dislike that at all. Nor does Luigi. But we live to serve you, our readers. So we’ll do the democracy thing again. There’s a poll on the right; pop on over and vote.

I’ve also implemented threaded comments. ((Should have done it eons ago.)) “Wha,” you ask. It’s just a way of making it easier to respond to a specific comment without all that @Name hipster grooviness. Just click on the Reply button, and WordPress will do the rest. If there’s an outcry, I’ll de-implement it. But I don’t think there will be.

Just wanted to point out that yesterday’s crop of nibbles was really very rich. I have a feeling that they sometimes get overlooked, with their small typeface, there on the right of the page. Do have a look. There’s more on the saga of that organic report, and much more.

Apologies to anyone who tried to look at the site over the past couple of days and saw the enigmatic message “It Works!”. We had not in fact been hacked. It was a hangover from earlier attempts to migrate to a new server. Unfortunately the server administrator was on holiday, so there was nothing we could do about it. The first thing he did on his return was to get everything operational, even if the site isn’t quite as pretty as it might have been. Or is it better? Let us know. About other stuff too.

More tweaks later, if necessary.

OK, you have spoken. We won’t place adverts on the site, for now. While we recognize our right to do so, we note also that we exist to serve you, our readers. The poll can stay up a little longer, just for fun.