It’s Sunday evening, and I’m staring down the barrel of 725 unread items in Google Reader, pondering why I haven’t organised any food, and yet feeling like I should make the most of relaxing for an hour or two before the new week begins.
The good kind of busy has been happening at work, as the whole team at Absolute Radio have been doing more than ever before. If you’re interested in whether or not it works, check out the latest stats and on-demand listening figures. It includes the nice news that 713,000 Absolute Radio applications have now been downloaded to mobile phones, and people used them to listen to 215,000 hours of live audio (mobile development is one of the things I’m heavily involved in).
And to illustrate how fast the company continues to move, on Friday Absolute 80s became a national station on DAB, and we announced a new station, Absolute Radio 90s.
And that’s just some of stuff being worked on…
Meanwhile outside of work, I had the uncomfortable experience of having 2 out of my 3 sites comprimised by the PHP exploit which did the rounds of a number of hosting services.
For updates, and info if you’re affected, I recommend the Securi SecurityWPSecurityLock blog (which includes a great script to easily solve the immediate problem), and the blog (which has some handy guides to backing up and reinstalling your database and content). I hadn’t looked at either site before or heard their names mentioned, but after reading up and using their tools, I’m quite impressed – and both sites offer ongoing WordPress security products I’ve made a mental note to check out.
So all three sites have been tweaked and had clean installs uploaded after some backing-up.
Add in a poorly child (thankfully better now), and Chelsea doing a historic double (Winning the Premiership and FA Cup), and it’ll explain why updates might take a while to get back up to their regular schedule!



