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I’ve moved hosts, yet again. When I first got william-hook.com in October 2005, I was hosted with A Small Orange. However I later moved away from them in 2008, to Minthost, as they were cheaper (and faster too), and then again a few months ago I again moved to Fr3d‘s server, as he was, well, free. However, Fr3d has decided to start charging (and, tbh, too much. ), so I’ve moved back to ASO. Actually, I’ve put half my site elsewhere. All the big files that I had hosted on my blog I’ve put on another server I have access to, which has plenty of space available , but my blog itself (which is only 30MB) I’m hosting with ASO. The upside is that I can fit into the $25/year plan, so the hosting overall doesn’t cost me much now. The only thing I’m worried about now is that when I used to be on ASO, the server I was on eventually got pretty slow, so I’m hoping that won’t happen again. If it does I can probably ask to be moved to another server but for now, it seems fine, which is good.

The one thing I am keeping with Fr3d is that he’s hosting a Microsoft Exchange mailbox for me. The mail I don’t really care about (I primarily use Gmail), but it does mean that my contacts and calendars are synced between my PC, Mac, and iPhone, which is awesome – and at £20/year it’s much cheaper than Apple’s MobileMe).

Anyway, so, yes, if you’re reading this, you’re seeing my blog hosted with ASO. If you’re not, your DNS server suck and you should switch to OpenDNS.

So, today (and last night), three of the things I use often got upgrades. Yay!

First of all, Linkinus v2 was released last night. This is the Mac IRC client that I use in place of mIRC. I really do miss mIRC from when I was using Windows, however Linkinus is a decent replacement and v2 is fairly nice. It brings a nice new stylesheet (actually, several) for the IRC display, and loads of other new features. After struggling to get it to play nice with my BNC, it does now, and it’s all working nicely. The only issue that I have now is the somewhat excessive RAM usage. It was using 250MB earlier, after being open overnight, and having just restarted it now, it’s now using a still somewhat excessive 140MB, which I think it quite a lot. However, overall, v2 is a decent upgrade.

Anyway, next up, WordPress (which is what my blog runs on). v2.8 was released today, and I’ve upgraded to it already. Except, again, it’s now introduced an issue. The “New Post” page, where I write new blog posts, has a WYSIWYG interface – basically, like in Microsoft Word, you can change the font, bold, italics, insert URLs, and so on, all with a small toolbar at the top of the page. However, it’s not working. It’s just disappeared. I tried re-running the upgrade script…nothing. So, I downloaded it from the WordPress site and uploaded it that way…nothing. It’s just disappeared. So I hope they can fix that soon.

Finally, Delicious Library 2. This is a Mac-only application that is very useful, as it keeps track of books, DVDs, games, and so on. I use it to keep an index of my Blu-ray discs and PS3 games, and it works very well. In the past day or so, it, too, has had an update, which adds support for a native iPhone application that they’ve just released. Overall, it works well, and the iPhone app is pretty nice. Luckily, I’ve not had any issues with it, which is good, so it’s all working fine, along with Linkinus.

But WordPress isn’t. And I hope it’s fixed, and soon.