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Google Analytics 2006
31 January 2007
Read moreI have written about Google Analytics before, once or twice but I haven’t managed to put across the sheer volume of information. Today I had a look back at 2006 (the first year for this site) and looked at how it went. I thought I could share the main …
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Little Meals: Eggs Etc
30 January 2007
Read moreFor a while now I’ve been meaning to write a piece on interesting meals to make in a hurry for one person. I eat at home each day for lunch time and often make something substantial so that I can grab a sandwich later on my way to another …
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PHPThrowdown Coding Contest
28 January 2007
Read moreThis weekend, Kevin (boyfriend) and I took part in the first PHPThrowdown event. While its true that programming contests aren’t new, I haven’t seen one that seemed relevant to me for a while and they do take a lot of organisation – so kudos to the organisers including fellow …
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An Unsuitable Choice
24 January 2007
Read moreWell, following on from the earlier episodes in the house hunting saga we have been pretty quiet on that front recently. Partly because we’re a bit twice bitten, lots of times shy. Partly because the houses in Leeds in the areas we’re looking at are all pretty similar …
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What Rabbits do best
23 January 2007
Read moreIn the summer, I bought a nabaztag for Kevin as his birthday present. Within a couple of weeks he had figured out how to intercept its web requests and replace them with instructions of his own. The little creature has five lights – one under his feet, three across his tummy …
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Textpattern Technorati Linkback Tutorial
22 January 2007
Read moreI fell across this article describing how Drew McLellan implemented the Technorati Link Count Widget onto his textpattern blog. I’d like to do this some day (not that I get a great deal of traffic, particularly not technorati traffic) but if it starts to appear in my stats then …
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Big Wool Earflap Hat
21 January 2007
Read moreOK so its Sunday name is “Swing”, but here’s my most recent knitting achievement. Its a hat, with long earflaps that make a scarf:
I has a nice bit of garter stitch around the brim:
And here’s a closeup of the fabulous pompoms:
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URLs that suck
18 January 2007
Read moreOver at the Well Designed URLs Blog they’ve started a movement to tag all urls-that-suck on del.icio.us and they will later rank the top ten sites with utterly rubbish URLs. I think this is a great idea and will be adding my own as I come across …
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You don't become a geek
16 January 2007
Read moreToday’s quote of the day comes from a reply to the Freshmeat article Geek Chicks
You don’t become a geek, you discover that you are one
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USB drive letter under Windows XP
15 January 2007
Read moreI have to look this up every time I do it so here’s a fast tutorial on changing the letter for a USB storage device under Windows XP. I’m using this for my newly-flashed iriver that I told you about recently.
Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer …
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Why PHP isn't so bad
13 January 2007
Read moreI love PHP. I’ve worked with a fair number of languages and I have to say that I absolutely love PHP. I love its cleanliness, its elegance, and its fabulours online documentation and community support.
I come across a lot of people in various walks of life who rubbish …
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Joomla! Brief And Pretty URLs
12 January 2007
Read moreWell the website for my netball club is definitely going ahead, They are even more up for it than I imagined! So you can find the new site at www.shipleynetball.org.uk and hopefully it will actually get some content soon.
Installing Joomla!
I installed a new copy of …