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A New Look

For those few who make a visit here regularly then you will know I have a habit of changing the theme on the site fairly often. I think, in the near year that it has been up and running, I have been through about 7 different themes and today is the start of [...]

Like most people with one of these web loggy things, it’s nice to see statistics. You know the sort of thing: how many visits you’re getting; which items are getting repeat viewings and are more popular. That sort of thing. Sure, my host offers me a couple of options but they tend to be transitory [...]

Trivia Time
I categorised this item under ‘weird people’ because you’ve got to be a little weird to know things like this! So full marks to New York Times columnist David Pogue.
If you are in America this evening (April 4th 2006) then at exactly 1 hour and 123 seconds after midnight, the time and date will [...]

Space Shuttle Discovery

I am a great fan and supporter of space exploration. Indeed, after the heady days of the Apollo missions, I expected so much and was disappointed that so little happened.Back in the 1960’s, technology was not what it is today. I remember you couldn’t go on a long drive anywhere without passing the [...]

Last year the Inland Revenue… OK… the bloody Tax Man, decided for reasons that have not been disclosed to me, to instigate an investigation into my 2002-2003 tax return.
This is a whole year after the return has been filed and tax paid. No reason given, but letters sent full of dark foreboding and warnings suggesting [...]

Creating Content
Password protection
So you want to share something with some people, but not everyone? Easy, protect the article in question with a password.
Post Slug
If you are using clean PermaLinks on your website, you can define the link to an individual post by using a post-slug.
Post to the future
You can write a post today and have [...]

Automator
I’ve had Tiger on my Mac since its release but still have to dig deep into some of the more remote areas of the OS and applications. Figuring that one thing I do daily is to open several web sites – currently by using bookmarks – then getting to grips with Automator might be a [...]

When I first started this site I preferred to use a desktop client to construct my items – quick spell check, local saves until ready and a rich editor that wasn’t slightly clunky and idiosyncratic. My tool of choice was ecto, as I have mentioned before.
Over the months I haven’t always been able to use [...]

The Good, Bad And Ugly
It’s good to know that some major websites are almost a pleasure to use. I yesterday booked a couple of flights on the Air Canada website. It was a pleasure to use – fast, accurate, responsive, easy. Today I have tried to do the same with the US Airways site. Total [...]

I have been with DreamHost for a couple of years. They seem like nice people and the support team have been helpful and good to me. But I rather suspect that they are suffering from their own success. Sell cheap – stack ‘em high. There is just too much competition for servers and cabling and [...]

Problems in the WordPress Camp
There appears to be some disquiet in the WordPress community following the latest security update, the fourth in just a few short weeks. As a newcomer to WordPress of just a couple of months, I am saddened to see harsh criticism coming from unexpected quarters. Both MacManX and Angsuman – two [...]