Well it finally worked!  I am not sure how or why but after about the 8th time I tried it some how worked, with a little help from the EE Team I must admit.

Websites

If you are anything like me and you decide you want to build your own website do yourself a favour and get a pre made one…. honestly….. you’ll save yourself endless hours of frustration and your hair will thank you, because you will not be pulling it out!

Still if you must…. um you’re a masochist but go for it and good luck.

I realised today when I went to click on a link to one of my journal entries that the link wasn’t working…... now it was at one point, I swear…. I think….. One of the problem with writing the code for your own website is that things look like they should work but don’t you take hours upon hours to discover a space where there shouldn’t be one, or you have missed a bracket or a comma….. So I had to go through all the pages and work out why it wasn’t working. Several hours later I found the pesky problem and have fixed it…. I think.

Still if you find a link that is not working I’d be grateful if you could send me an email and let me know.

Well ok at first I will probably swear quite creatively…. then I will try and work out why it isn’t working…. Once I manage to work out what is wrong and fix it I’ll be grateful, honest.

There are some things I just do not get.  One of them is spam.  Set up a website and the sheer amount of different types of spam you get will take a rather abrupt rise.  referrer spam, trackback spam, email spam.  It reaches ridiculous lengths.  I was getting 500 odd referrer spam a day.  It was becoming an almost daily routine, check the referrer list and mass add the referrers IP’s to the blacklist then mass delete.

I seem to be having a lull in referrer spam at the moment.  I have no delusion that it will last I am sure the little s**ts will find new computers to use and they will start up once more.

Then the other day I noticed a steep rise in the number of trackbacks.  After looking at them I realised that they were not genuine trackbacks but similar to the referrer spam.  Yet another thing to check and delete.  Sigh.

Then of course there is the email spam which I am sure any of you with an email address has encountered at some point.  Still 100’s of spam emails to wad through and delete becomes a little much after a while so the whole mass blacklisting and mass deleting has happened.

So if you have sent an email, I hasten to add a legitimate one, that I have not answered I do apologise.

If you are one of those leaches who participate in spaming, what can I say that is not impolite?  Not much.  Go away and find someone else to annoy.  No I do not want to buy pills from you, no I do not want to visit your sick porn site, no I am not going to send you my banking details so you can transfer money from an approved bank loan that I did not apply for…Not that I think this would work on the type of individual who would participate in spaming. 

For those of you about to set up your own website get ready for an obscene amount of spam in various formats to enter your life.

Sorry.  End rant.

I’ve been doing a fair bit of tinkering with the website in the last month or so and I realised that while I intended to put up regular updates on my progress with the site well, that just has not happened.

So what have I been working on?

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Well news of sorts.  Cass, my travel buddy for the impending trip to Thailand is planning a trip to Germany in June or July… I’m sure she will tell you when she is going.  Anyway Cass will be taking over the reins, so to speak, of Walkers Trails and detailing her experiences in Germany.

So there will be two trips listed on the site this year.  One to Germany and the other to Thailand.

Now Cass is going to become a regular here on Walker’s Trails as she is also planning to come on the RTW or at least part of it with me… we hope.  I’m trying to convince her to come for all of it but since I’m not even sure how much time off I can wrangle out of work yet and it is a few years off it is a little hard to say.  Um… if your Cass boss or one of her colleagues just forget you’ve read that bit since I do not think you are meant to know about it yet….

Cass will come on here sooner or later… hopefully sooner rather than later and tell you all about her trip so stay tuned!