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CMS Promiscuity
11 February 2007
Read moreThis site is run by textpattern, I’ve used it a few times and I love it. In addition you may have read about my recent encounters with Joomla! .
This week I’m trying out Serendipity for another site and its quite a change. For a start I haven’t …
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Little Meals: Fasta Pasta
08 February 2007
Read morePasta is a great store-cupboard staple and can be turned into a meal as complicated or as simple as you please. In this series of articles on “little meals”, the food that is fast and makes either a good lunch or a small dinner for one person, I’ve already …
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Offer Accepted: Third Time Lucky?
07 February 2007
Read moreWe’ve had an offer accepted on the house I told you about. This is the third time we’ve had an offer accepted on a house and the other two have failed to end in a successful purchase, mostly because we seem to choose houses that turn out to …
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Feel the Freedom
07 February 2007
Read moreI’ve just stumbled across Scott Carpenter’s site Moving to Freedom site and it reminded me something I meant to write about.
Some time ago, my little sister entered Further Education and needed her own computer. So I tarted up my desktop, reinstalled it, and dumped it in her …
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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 …