So you’ve decided its a good idea to let Google manage the email for your domain? You’ll find after sign up that you have to prove you own your domain, the easiest way being to upload a page called googlehostedservice.html to the root of your domain. Unfortunately, the Google help page isn’t to helpful on the format, so here’s an example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>googlehostedservice</title>
</head>
<body>
googlexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
</body>
</html>
Replace the line starting googlexxx etc. with the one they supply you during the setup process, upload the page to the root of your domain, your sorted. You can then go back to the setup page, click verify and the process should complete in less than 48 hours.
If like me you rather like the Sons of Skadi Extended Live Archive (ELA) plugin, you will have been dismayed to find that as soon as you upgraded your blog to Wordpress 2.3 it promptly fell over. Pages full of MySQL errors when posting, all sorts of badness. Turns out that when the database structure changed for version 2.3 the catagories table amongst others was removed. Unfortunately ELA relied heavily on this so badness abounded. Luckily a bit of digging around revealed this patch which fixes the problem nicely. Overwrite the files, clear the cache and update your options then it’s archivetastic one again 
I’ve recently started work on a new project, a webpresence for a guesthouse run by a friend of mine. It’s called The Treehouse and it’s a rather nice place on the south coast of South Africa called KwaZulu-Natal. Why not have a look?
