Vic suggested that I comment on my rise in the Google rankings. At present writing, a Google search for “ian stevens” returns my Radio weblog as the highest ranking search result, surpassing even famous Shrewsbury forward Ian Stevens as well as Ian Stevens, the prominent … Read more

I know the whole Googlism thing is passé, but I can’t resist just one post. I’m still not sure if I want to stick with the “crazed monkey” theme, but after performing a Googlism search for “crazed monkey“, I’m leaning towards keeping it:

crazed monkey is wreaking havoc … Read more

That invalid RSS feed I spoke of was actually my bad. As it turns out, I actually was including a relative URL reference. Wow, do I feel like a dumbass for not taking a hard look at this entry which was causing the problem.

So now I have a valid RSS feed and … Read more

I took a few minutes just now and put together a simple RSS feed. Trouble is, it doesn’t validate and I’m not sure why. The RSS validator claims that a “description should not contain relative URL references”, except that I don’t have any. Not a particularly helpful error message, that. I’ll have … Read more

I’ve managed to put an archive listing by adding an “archive” flavour and messing with the Apache rules. Here are the lines I added to my Apache ruleset for the blog directory:

RewriteRule ^archives$ archives/ [R] RewriteRule archives/(.*) blosxom.cgi/$1?flav=archive [L]

For some reason that first rule is not automatically filling in a missing trailing slash, … Read more