I have been doing a few minor site changes recently. The most noticeable (to me, at least) is that I now have Mint, after debating for ages about whether or not to get it. So far, I'm quite impressed with it - though I would like to see more "Pepper" (Mint plugins) available to extend the features.

The second thing I've done, which is probably more noticeable to you than me, is that I have added my Flickr account to my feed, through Feedburner. So now you can keep up with my photos as well as my blog entries. Yay :)

Other than that, I'm still not done with my custom CMS. The more I think about it, the more it's becoming WordPress... Although I didn't copy any of the code (except its paragraph parsing, because I'm rubbish at regular expressions :P ), it's pretty much the same thing at the moment. This annoys me and pleases me at the same time - annoying because there's no point me writing this if it does the same thing as what I've already got, and pleasing because I never thought I could replicate the wonder that is WP. Still a long way to go before I'm anywhere near ready to use it on a live site though, so WP is staying for now. Woo.

OMG and it's Friday the 13th!1!1!1

I have reached new heights of geekiness. Why? Because I am now on the first page of Google when you search for Amelie. :D Yay! I'd been stuck in 11th place (top of the second page) for ages but now I am 10th (including repeated results - I think I'm 7th without). Note that this is on Google.com - I'm still 11th on Google.co.uk. I'm on the first page for most other Google TLDs though. Wonder why Google UK is being so slow to update? Hmph.

Oh yes, excuse the mess - I'm in the middle of having my account moved over to another server. WP has been bouncing up and down all morning and then for some reason all sites on the server were showing up as a client's. Errr, right.

In other highly interesting news, CG was hacked yesterday. This marks the third site in 5 days that I've seen hacked. A couple of the CG staff have been having their sites repeatedly attacked and I have to wonder what on earth they have done to deserve this. Hackers (or "script kiddies" as these people normally tend to be) and spammers earn zero in terms of respect from me. Especially those who lie about stuff they've found in order to make themselves look good and others look bad (thanks for ruining my reputation, kthxihateyoubye). Wow so you've found your way into something that isn't yours. What are you going to do, tell the site owner? No, of course not. You're going to delete all their files, replace them with stupid crap like "H4X0Rr3D bY 1337 kR0o 2 ThOuzAnd SiXxX : mC HaX / HakKa 2k / PeAc3 2 ALL n0 waR", then take some screenshots and plug yourself on Zone H. That's really mature of you. *Rolls eyes*

Anyway. I was going to say that I think WP is a problem and that hackers are finding their way in through there somehow. I'm not sure how, but as soon as I've finished my custom blog script, I am getting rid of WP and replacing it. Hmph.
This post had better not disappear as soon as I've posted it... Bah to nameserver propagation and all that >:(

Edit: Hmph. Since writing this post, Google's decided I'm back to 11th on Google.com and 12th on Google.co.uk. Wah :( Or not! Google is odd.

I'm in the mood for customising and expanding my WP installation. I went through yesterday and updated all my plugins, then this morning played around with the template tags. Still some minor things to fix, but all in all I'm fairly happy with how it's turned out so far.

So, I've decided I want more WP plugins. I did consider the threaded comments plugin but for some reason it confuses me so much and I can't even begin to implement it. Anyway, ideas? So far I have:

• Akismet (Why do I always want to spell that with an N, as in Akisment? Duuuuh)
• Bad Behaviour
• Auto-Close Comments
• Exec-PHP
• Impostercide
• Quote Comment
• Search and Replace
• Subscribe to Comments

Suggestions please? *Begs*