Error when posting comments

The following error was appearing when users tried to post comments:

"Warning: strpos(): Empty delimiter. in /home/dan13l/public_html/food/wp-includes/comment-functions.php on line 867"

I fixed it by going into options - discussion, clicking update options, then trying again. It might be something to do with the WP2.0 upgrade process…

Comments

Ashleigh mentioned that I'd got a problem with comments. I'm glad he let me know, but it does mean I've spent the last 30 minutes fiddling with Wordpress again, rather than going to bed At least it's not the stylesheet this time, eh? The problem? Spam Karma, by the looks of it. I don't think it likes 2.0. I've enabled the Akismet plugin that comes with 2.0, so we'll see if that's any good…

Wordpress 2.0 RC1

It looks like Wordpress 2.0 RC1 has been released. They're really fast-tracking this thing through the beta and out the door, aren't they?

Upgrading now, hold on to your trousers…

Romero Update!

I can't read a juicy piece of Romero news and not blog about it, now can I?

It sounds like Romero might have the chance to continue the story he began in Land of the Dead, as the film did so well in Europe, and is selling well on DVD. Sadly, it sounds like Diamond Dead will never be made (Romero's Rocky Horror-esque musical featuring an undead rock band), but perhaps that's for the best - done wrong, it could be a truly awful thing.

So, fingers crossed we get another Romero zombie movie. It'll be the first time he's continued one of his stories from where he left off, but it will also be the first time he's made another zombie movie straight after the last, so I suppose it makes sense.

A single console philosophy

In the past, I've always owned every console on the market. There have always been platform exclusive titles like Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, and Metal Gear Solid, to name only a few, and the thought of not being able to play each platform's gems was enough to make me own every machine. Even if they did sit, barely used, waiting for that next great title to come along.

In the last six months, since the birth of my son, I've had precious little time or desire to play anything on any of my consoles. At one point, prior to his birth, I owned everything: Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, DS, PSP, and PC. I had numerous MMORPG subscriptions, and enough time to justify them.

The DS was the first to go. The PSP was so shiny, so versatile, and so much more powerful than the DS that it seemed silly to keep two portable gaming systems. So I waved goodbye to the DS, despite a desire to play Metroid, Nintendogs, and other platform exclusives.

Next, the Xbox was traded-in ready to make way for its second generation evolution, the 360. I could cope with not playing any Xbox releases for a few months because I could pick them up for the 360 and play them in backwards compatibility mode.

Then my online subscriptions got cancelled. Everquest 2, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, The Matrix Online (yeah, like that was a hard one to give up) all got axed due to lack of time or inclination to play. I still retain a City of Villains sub (more on that in a future post) because it's sufficiently undemanding to make it worth continuing.

Having given up my Xbox, and my DS, and having not powered up my PS2 for an age, I started to wonder whether my multiple console way of life was feasible, or, indeed, worthwhile. "Is it really that important to play everything, on every platform?" I thought, and with that set out on the road to a single console philosophy.

GamerTag

I wasn't terribly happy with Captain Squidgy - it's not really a name to strike fear into the hearts of your enemies, is it? "Oh no! Here comes Captain Squidgy, run for your lives!"

So, after much thought, I decided to take my Gamertag from the name of a character I've admired for many years. A character who's strong, relentless, and…makes a kind of "moo" noise. Yes, I'm referring, of course, to everyones favourite green ninja, Green Yamo!

So, my Gamertag from here on in will be Green Yamo