One of the side effects of being BoingBoinged around the same time that Warren Ellis shines a light on your little slice of the Internet is that lots of people come to take a look and all attempt to squeeze their eyeballs through a narrow tube that then causes a server rupture that results in a spell of fall-overing for most websites. There are probably more technical terms for this but I prefer to call it ‘being fucked’. In a good way. It just means your website doesn’t walk right for a little while.

Well that used to be the case anyway. For a few years now I’ve had @loudmouthman looking after my website (this one and a few others I have squirreled away), ensuring my WordPress installations are up to date and generally answering all the annoying questions I have when Google fails me. He’s been doing this since an older version of my site got hacked and was properly done over. Since then things have run like clockwork. Or whatever the digital version of clockwork is.

I now recommend him to everyone I know if they’re even considering using WordPress. My backend now has an effective series of bells and whistles as well as a near invisible suite of addons that just keep the site up no matter what and most importantly don’t get in the way of my infrequent blogging attempts.

This of course is just a small part of what Nik does for a living (he recently helped Ridley Scott’s mob not get overwhelmed by Life in a Day) so if you’re doing anything for a sustained period online he’s certainly the man to talk to. I said this on Twitter this morning, but its worth repeating: Too many talk themselves up, deliver little. Nik gets it done. End of.

Oh and he also runs a neat little Moleskine blog which is one of those cool things that I wished I’d thought of doing first.