Covering a range of topics from questions you should be asking, to accessibility (including colour blindness), to meta. Some of it’s dated, but it’s a look back at history.
WordPress 2.8 editor bug Not wholly sure this is a bug as it doesn’t affect everyone. Far as I can tell it’s caused by WordPress not completely upgrading from earlier versions. It is also affect by the theme you use. For instance on this blog I have no problems, on another, I’ve lost images. Same […]
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Viral magic (sarcasm)? Following a thread on Twitter: problogger Reading: How to Write a Viral-ready Article in 2 Hours Flat Hmm, what Darren got now? Off to read: rt @problogger How to Write a Viral-ready Article in 2 Hours Flat Step 1. Spend 10 minutes studying what has worked before. Hmm, nothing really. That’s saved
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Thesis theme I liked the look of this advert (image gone now, annoyingly), makes me think of strong coffee for some reason. Anyway, I was going to leave it as the Simplicity theme, which I rather like, but I was playing and broke it. Seeing as I’d just bought, well licensed the developer version of
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Creating a WordPress theme I’ve only so much patience for looking at and tinkering with other people’s code, but despite the plethora of offerings out there, many very good, I’ve yet to find one that matches my particular needs… clean, accessible, easily editable and ummm, flawless. Not asking much, you’d think, eh! My first instinct
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So far, short of taking the time and effort to develop and perfect one of my own, the Simplicy WordPress theme by Zit Seng is one of the best there is, provided you are happy to tinker and customise it. However, it still needs improving as there are accessibility issues, formatting problems and so forth,
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Twitter? I actually answered this first on YahooAnswerUk, but I reckon it belongs here too as it will be useful for many. In reply to the question: Twitter.com What is the deal? Can someone tell me how twitter.com works and why do people like it so much. I’ve only been using Twitter a few days
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Selection of my Tweets from March 15th, 2009 Working on a blog about (re)building up a web presence Was reminded how much gameplay was sacrificed for 3D eyecandy. We need is a new Ultima Underworld Found a Gnu multi-platform DOS emulator for old games. Woot! DOSbox DOSBox is an emulator which emulates an IBM PC
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Building up a web presence This rambling post comes about because every now and then over the years – since way, way back in 1995 in fact, when I had a high street computer shop / cybernet cafe* – friends and business acquaintances would ask for advice about promotions and web sites and so forth.
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