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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 …
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London PHP Conference
12 January 2007
Read moreIts all sorted and we’re booked onto the London PHP Conference in February. Its a bit of a geeky thing to do as a couple I suppose but I’m really looking forward to it. There are some speakers that I will be positively star-struck to see in the …
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Dating Joomla!
11 January 2007
Read moreWell its early days in our relationship but so far, Joomla! and I are getting along just fine. Since I installed it I’ve had a proper fiddle with most of the bits and pieces (mostly turning things off actually!!) and now its looking much better.
Since I’ll want …
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Wouldn't It Be Cool If ...
11 January 2007
Read moreAs a geek, I sometimes create websites for other people or organisations who don’t have the technical skills to create them themselves. Tonight I’m meeting with the Netball Club Committee (well they are meeting and I am gatecrashing) to discuss whether a website would be useful for them …
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Gadget Update
10 January 2007
Read moreAfter I wrote about the death of a gadget, I decided that I would definitely just go out and buy something which would make music, to use in the car and at the gym, which wouldn’t matter if it died too. So I got one of these logik orbit …
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Rowan Big Wool Mittens
07 January 2007
Read moreI can’t really knit. I must have been able to once; I knitted toy snowmen as christmas presents for my friends when I lived at home. But its something that I can’t just pick up and potter along with like I can crochet. For my birthday I received …
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A Winter's Wrap
07 January 2007
Read moreThought I’d show off my most recent crochet creation as I haven’t been keeping the site up-to-date with stuff lately. I received an invite to a Christmas Ball from a friend in the Army, and accepted. My summer ballgown (I slimmed back into the pink one mum made …
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Civic Life Online
05 January 2007
Read moreIt looks like the government is catching up with the online world. In the last few months I’ve registered as an organ donor, and petitioned for accessible websites.
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Joomla! greetings
04 January 2007
Read moreNext week I’ve been asked to go to the netball club committee meeting and tell them a bit about what a website is and whether I should be making them one. In order to get my brain in gear I’ve been thinking about tools that would be suitable …