Andy Cunningham

I’m slightly ashamed to see that it’s been about 8 months since my last post here.

My other website ventures – mostly for other people – have been taking too much of my spare time, but I need to get back to posting more regularly.

So, what’s happened in that time.

Well, the Dakar has been sold to free up time on more valuable projects.

The Disco is now up to 93,000 miles and has just had the luxury of a professional service instead of my tender ministrations.  There have been a few glitches in the last six months but (touch wood) it’s pretty solid for a vehicle of that age and mileage. and I hope there will be many more miles to come.

On the Ham Radio front, not much has changed.  I taught a foundation class in March with a record 14 attendees and they all passed, which was quite a buzz. I’ve also managed to find a workable antenna for home use, and there’s more about this on the M0HAK website.

But I need to get blogging, commenting, and ranting more often.  The target is at least  a weekly post. Let’s see if I can sustain it.

The existing theme wasn’t compatible with WordPress 2.8.   This one is.  It’ll do for now.

Yes, I’m messing with the theme.  It’s time for a change, but I can’t decide what I like.  Please bear with me.

I’m in the process of moving things to a new hosting provider so things might be patchy for a few days.

This is quite a complex change:

• The Thames Valley 4×4 Forum that I’ve been hosting is being migrated back into the club’s main website now that they have MySQL available.
• This blog will become the front end to my site.
• Exciting stuff is happening with RangieWiki – watch this space for more!

Changes should be complete by the end of August.

I know, I keep changing the theme on the site like some people keep changing their underwear.  But I liked this one, and it was far superior to my efforts to tweak the previous theme into something I was happy with.  I need to re-format some articles to work with this theme, and do some minor tweaking to bring some of the features back, but it shouldn’t take too long.

I promise to spend more time on the content and less time on the chrome in future.

The site has been upgraded to WordPress 2.2.  You shouldn’t see any difference, though I’m working on some new features and extensions to be added.  Watch this space.

Apologies for the rapidly changing themes on this site. I decided the theme I was using looked a little to garish, and have been trying to find a good alternative. I’ve settled on this one for the layout, but I’m still tweaking colours and other details.

I’ve been very remiss about posting stuff here in the last few weeks. I think I tried to set the bar fairly high on what I was going to consider as acceptable content and ended up finding nothing that was interesting. So, I’m going to aim to post something worth writing every day.

This means that I’m going to be widening the net a little, and posting some links to some of the funniest and most bizarre links I see on the net. I’m also going to be including more technology posts relating to computing and the Internet, and especially relating to my day job working in IT Security. You don’t have to read it all! I won’t be offended if you skip the techie stuff because you’re only interested in the cars.