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Wanna Blog? Get a train ticket…
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that the blog has had a very patchy few days. Life, as John Lennon reputedly said, is what happens when you’re making other plans. I’d like to add that life is what happens when you step away from the keyboard and do cool stuff like go with
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Keeping it up!
The last week has shown me how hard it can sometimes be to keep blogging! I’m sitting here with Marvin, our large long haired cat who acts like a dog (i.e. he shakes when wet and sits up with his paws on my lap when he wants attention, then after I stroke him he settles
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WPMU Installation to support sub-domain blogs
I’m currently renovating a site of mine – Coffeehouse Chat – with a possible view to re-opening the Forum side of it with new and improved features – including better integration with Social Media and User Blog hosting on the site. And there was the issue – I wanted to install WordPress-MU – the multi-user
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Slow and easy does it!
I have a client in Harrogate who I visit every couple of weeks, travelling by train. I went up there a couple of days ago, and as I’d had a particularly hectic couple of days before hand was able to reflect on something that I’ve thought about occasionally in the year that I’ve been visiting
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ASP.NET and Oracle – how to stay sane!
I’m currently doing some development work using ASP.NET against an Oracle database. I have to say that I’ve had more frustrating development experiences, but most of those involved mainframe computers or…oh yes….Visual BASIC 6.0 against Oracle. Just what is it about Oracle and Microsoft? Gah! Anyway – rant over. In this piece I’d like to
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Exclusion 2.0 – is daft jargon necessary?
I just came across this on my Twitter feed – a reference to a ” ‘Future of the web’ Turtle” at Open 09. Yup – a turtle. After some Googling about and learning more than I ever wanted to know about our green, aquatic co-travellers on Planet earth, I eventually went to the Open 09
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Book Review – ‘Fantasy Island’ by Dan Atkinson and Larry Elliot
No, nothing to do the 1970s TV series with Ricardo Montalban as a bloke who made wishes come true on an Island with a combination of technology, actors and smoke and mirrors. Although….. Nope, this is a review of a book by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson, published by Constable in 2007, ISBN Number 978-1-84529-605-6.
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In Flanders Fields
I was late in getting my Poppy this year – I didn’t actually buy it until yesterday (Saturday) morning, when I purchased one from a gentleman in Hillsborough whilst on my Saturday morning Odyssey known as ‘the weekly shop’. I get a British Legion Poppy every year – I’m afraid I don’t have much truck
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The ‘Why should I give a fuck?’ award for today goes to….
OK – first of all apologies for the title. It’s just that the trivial background behind this post made me very angry this morning. I may just be having a grump, heading for a cold or suffering from fast-food overdose, but I guess I’m allowed to throw a strop occasionally. So, what was it that
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Are you a ‘but’ man?
I was reminded earlier today, whilst reading a book called ‘Life 101’, of a useful piece of advice from one of the more under-rated personal development gurus of the mid 20th Century – Sergeant Ernest Bilko of the United States Army. Let’s listen to what he has to say on the topic of a three