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Category: GeneralI have been trying out a new theme, got a bit sick of the last one. This theme is the Eos theme if you want to add it to your own blog. I am still tinkering with the options and the different sidebars, headers and footers.
Here is a photo of the great weather we had last week in the kingdom:
Barclays Premier League results from Saturday, 15 August 2009
Aston Villa 0-2 Wigan Athletic
Blackburn 0-2 Man City
Bolton 0-1 Sunderland
Chelsea 2-1 Hull
Everton 1-6 Arsenal
Portsmouth 0-1 Fulham
Stoke 2-0 Burnley
Wolverhampton 0-2 West Ham
I have installed the newest version of WordPress 2.8.4 on the blog and everything seems to be working fine. You can read all about this release on the WordPress Dev Blog here.
The main fix is it prevents an un-authorised user from resetting the admin users password.
An Bord Snip Nua has delivered its report and it was published today by the government. Here is a brief outline of the proposed cuts that they recommended:
Social and Family Affairs
- Cuts to all social welfare payments by 5% – €850m
- Reduction and changes to child benefit – €513m
- An end to receiving two welfare payments – €100m
- An end to payments for Community Employment Schemes for those already on benefit – €100m
- Cutting benefits for dental, optical and hearing services – €92m
- Grading of jobseekers allowance by age – €70m
- Cutting the Family Support Agency – €30m
- Changing eligibility for Family Income Supplement – €20m
- Taxing household benefits package – €11.6m
Staff cuts – None
Total cut €1.8bn
Wicklow v Down (Sunday 3pm, Aughrim, Co. Wicklow)
Meath v Wexford/Roscommon
Kerry v Sligo
Donegal v Derry
(Times, dates and venues TBC)
3 March – Buenos Aires, Argentina (last F1 race: 1998)
21 March – Mexico City, Mexico (last F1 race: 1992)
11 April – Jerez, Spain (last F1 race: 1997)
25 April – Portimao, Portugal
2 May – Imola, Italy (last F1 race: 2006)
23 May – Monte Carlo, Monaco
6 June – Montreal, Canada (last F1 race: 2008)
13 June – Indianapolis, United States (last F1 race: 2007)
1 July – Silverstone, United Kingdom
25 July – Magny-Cours, France (last F1 race: 2008)
15 August – Laustizring, Germany
29 August – Helsinki, Finland
12 September – Monza, Italy
26 September – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
10 October – Marina Bay, Singapore
24 October – Suzuka, Japan
8 November – Adelaide (last F1 race: 1995) or Surfers’ Paradise, Australia
Its been a week of updates! It started off with the notification from Wordpress that Wordpress 2.8 was available and that I should upgrade. OK then, I will. Especially now that you have the simple “upgrade automatically” option. Just click here and off she goes, and comes back as a nice new shiney Wordpress 2.8 blog.
All those times earlier in the life of the blog that I had to download the .zip file, unzip it, open my ftp client and upload the new files. Its SO much easier to just click on a link!
So then I thought my upgrades were over, but I got another notification. A new version of my Fusion theme was available and that I should upgrade.
So I did. Themes have had automatic upgrade available for while, but the only thing is that it overwrites any modifications you may have done to your existing version. But in fairness, you are warned that it will do this. I am getting to grips with it the changes it brought and I will eventually re-add the Members menu from the list, at some stage.
I still have to put back in the ads it overwrote!