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Thesis Post Images and Thumbnails not working

February 22, 2010
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Thesis is, in my view, the best Wordpress theme for commercial sites but there can be a couple of niggles when it comes to installing it on a shared hosting platform such as, in my case, a Heart Internet Reseller [...]

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If money were no object – would I buy an iPad?

January 28, 2010

Let’s just begin by saying that I have purchased Apple products in the past. I’ve owned an iMac, an eMac, several iPod Nanos, a MacBook and an iPod Classic. To me, they are the masters of hardware design and some of their software is also excellent (the iPhone/iPod Touch OS and Keynote being two outstanding [...]

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Paypal fiasco

January 6, 2010

I’m all for Buyer Protection (after all, I’m a buyer more often than a seller) but Paypal’s Dispute Resolution system needs sorting out.
One of my companies offers an online subscription service. On Christmas Eve, a customer emailed us to say they couldn’t access the service having paid for it. On Boxing Day having waited a [...]

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Google Apps Premier: Week One

December 11, 2009

I've spent some time during a busy week signing up for Google Apps Premier. Why? The main benefit to my companies is that it allows us to use corporate level email facilities without the expense or hassle of setting up and running an Exchange (or similar) server. I'm currently in the 30 day free trial [...]

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How to edit remote files in Microsoft Expression Web 3

December 2, 2009
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I’m just starting to experiment with Expression Web 3 as a site editor (specifically for editing PHP, CSS and Javascript files) and the first stumbling block was how to set it up so that I can edit my remote files directly without having to create a local version. This is necessary because I don’t have [...]

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Maclaren Stupidity

November 10, 2009

The utter stupidity of big corporations never ceases to amaze. Forced by law in the US to provide a protective cap to owners of their push-chairs, Maclaren refuse to do so in this country because our law does not force them to do so. Utterly pathetic: they could have had a marketing triumph by issuing [...]

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First steps in object oriented PHP

October 27, 2009

PHP gets a bad press from time to time, largely because its very flexibility is seen as laxness by the tight sphincter brigade. However, just because PHP doesn’t force “best practice” on programmers doesn’t mean you can’t adopt said best practice.
Object oriented programming is much talked about and has many advantages over the old-school line-based [...]

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Safari

October 27, 2009

Just run the Safari browser to check a site (it was already installed) only to find that it has automatically set itself to be my default browser. The Apple control-freakery spreads…
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Let down by the Mechanical Turk

October 26, 2009

Had a little job that would have suited Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service but it’s not available outside the US. Pity.
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Unbelievable Royal Mail

October 26, 2009

To my utter disbelief, I have today received an email from my “Royal Mail Business Consultant” (some might call it spam, especially since it’s not personalised, but that’s quite another matter) offering to meet me to discuss a new service they’re offering (“Royal Mail Tracked”).
ARE YOU HAVING A LAUGH? My post isn’t even being [...]

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