I’ve added some pictures from my recent holiday in Poole. There are some landscape pictures but the vast most are from a day trip to the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. As a motor car fan, this was the highlight of the holiday for me - getting up close to a vast range of vehicles, dating from the turn of the century to the modern day. The full gallery can be seen in my Picture Gallery.

I’ve been busy doing some background updates to the site, adding some new plugins to the WordPress install I am using as well as adding some tracking via Google Analytics. I have also recently updated the sites theme to make it a bit brighter and more welcoming.

First off the new plugins are

1. a better social networking bookmarking feature. This is visible underneath each post as a ‘Bookmark to’ link. Please leave a comment if you would like any other sites adding to the list.
2. An improved commenting system with more advanced spam filtering. This is largely unseen from the front end but I can confirm the spam filter appears to be doing its job very well.
3. Gravatar support so any avatars hosted at gravatar.com are automatically polled into any comment posts. For those who are unaware, gravatars are Globally Recognised Avatars, which allow compatible sites to pull your avatar from a central source without needing to keep a local cache. For users it means only having to set your avatar once and then just supply the associated email address with the comment. For those who do not have a Gravatar account I have also added a neat check box into the comment form so an account can be created for you. If you do choose this then you will receive and email from Gravatar to activate your account so please supply a valid email address.

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