My faithful readers, you can call off the search parties. I’m back.

It’s been a good few months since my last post, well, if you could call it a post. It was one command line. But, a long time nonetheless.

You’ll instantly see that I’ve got a new design here. I’m keeping things very simple this time around. No graphics. Very basic styling. Focusing primarily on the content. And if anyone is at all interested, I’m planning on releasing this theme at some point in the near future–once I’ve tidied things up behind-the-scenes. As I literally threw the design together in a few hours, you may find some things looking a little strange, and if you do, I’d really appreciate a quick email; i <(at)> this domain. Cheers.

It was very frustrating installing a fresh Wordpress on my Mac and finding that the permalinks didn’t work. Turns out the default Apache settings for personal web sharing on OS X disable .htaccess overriding.

sudo mate /etc/httpd/users/yourusername.conf

Now you’ll want to enable Apache to follow symbolic links:

Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

And to allow .htaccess overriding:

AllowOverride All

The file should then look like:

<Directory "/Users/yourusername/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Now in System Preferences, stop and start ‘Personal Web Sharing’. Things should work perfectly now.

Things may be a little quirky around here as I’m working on a new design for my blog because I just couldn’t stand the plain white background that I used to have.