Twitter on the Beeb

Yet another programme on the BBC this evening featuring Twitter (One Show, BBC1). This time, Gyles Brandreth and Richard Bacon. Gyles was interviewing David Lammy MP to find out why he uses Twitter.

I checked Mr Brandreth’s Twitter profile. He joined a couple of days ago and it had but 5 tweets.

You can follow him at http://twitter.com/gylesONESHOW if you like.

DNS, VPS and PHP Safe Mode

To quote Victor Meldew: “I don’t believe it!”. Having thought all was well in DNS-land last night, I checked again this morning to find that it had all reverted to the previous state.

Why? It’s beginning to annoy me.

I’ve once again updated the nameservers and have fingers and toes crossed. If it carries on, I will have to raise a trouble ticket. Watch this space.

Having installed WordPress the other day, I found I was getting some warnings about SAFE MODE preventing some file operations. I’ve spent a while digging around the net and have found the answer in front of me in Plesk – as usual, a user error!

If you find yourself installing WordPress, make sure you configure your web server such that PHP safe mode is set to OFF. I found a useful link that shows this step-by-step at Media Temple’s website.

Getting there.

Posterous

To date I’ve been using Posterous as the blogging platform for my first contribution to the social media world. I like its simplicity, but with simplicity comes limitation; hence my move to WordPress.

I decided to host my own instance of WordPress on my virtual private server since it will provide me with more flexibility (and headaches) than on a hosted service. I’m still very much getting to grips with it; so far so good in spite of some teething problems.

I am looking forward to being able to concentrate on content rather than the technical side!