So, here's another new year ushered in and the only resolution is to get myself playing online more. By playing I mean finally updating and getting more serious in regards to this blog (it's been on a 2 year hiatus!) and furthering my interest in photography which again, I haven't really dabbled with in the last few years. So here 'tis — this will be my playground from here on in…

I've also just changed my blogging software from WordPress to Habari (site), mainly for a change, a bit of challenge, and also I had no vested interest / knowledge of the workings of WordPress, so if starting something from scratch, I thought I'd give another platform a go. So far, pretty good. Not even a "1.0" release yet (I'm running 0.4-alpha), but will be interesting to see how it progresses. I recognised a few names on the development team and it sounds like they've got some good ideas for future (and current) development so will be monitoring with interest. Importing from WordPress was simple enough once I'd made the decision to actually move it across.

And as for the photography, I've got thousands of images from previous years including some great photos of my travels through Europe and beyond, but I'll be starting my Flickr account from 2008. If I can be motivated enough and it's easy enough, I may put up a select few, but essentially, it all starts now…

Yes, I've finally upgraded, and hopefully this gives me the clichéd kick up the proverbial butt to clean up and update with V3 of SD. Anything odd, let me know (oh, you're such a quiet bunch)...

Update: There feeds will no longer work as I have migrated to Habari.

I have decided to offer 3 different RSS feeds for this site now which are listed on the left - there's probably better ways of doing this within the code (and if there is, please let me know) but from a quick glance at the WordPress forums this seems the simplest.

• Full Feed
• Regular Posts only
• Links only

Full Feed includes all posts to the site. If you've already added me to your aggregator, this is the one you currently have.Regular Posts only includes all regular posts such as this one without the Links.Links only includes all the interesting links I find every now and then and post a quick description of.

The way I have done this is as follows - to exclude a category from a feed, use /feed/?cat=-4 replacing the 4 with whatever category id you wish to exclude. To create a separate feed for a particular category, just remove the minus sign and insert the category id you wish to create the feed for.

Another way to generate a unique category feed is to use /archives/category/category_name/feed/. Essentially just adding /feed/ to your category URL. This is assuming you are using the mod_rewrite option to generate 'friendlier' URL's.

Hopefully this will be fairly future-proof and not break peoples subscriptions when upgrading WordPress. I have a local development version of the latest 1.5 release which I am playing around with. I am in the process of redesigning the site, and the "Themes" and "Pages" additions in the latest versions I am hoping will allow for better customisation without breaking too much of the underlying code base.