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Alternatives to an "old" Flickr Pro account 16 Aug 2013 | 03:40 am
My Flickr is an "old" Pro account on a recurring Pro subscription that I have been paying since 2010. This apparently means my payments will remain as is, at $24.95 per year, and my Pro membership wil...
Government Fracking 4 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
The Department of Energy & Climate Change has a web page about developing shale gas and oil in the UK (fracking, mostly). The page says the Government believes that shale gas has the potential to prov...
Calamitous Policies: The North South Divide 1 Jan 2013 | 04:16 pm
A reader's comment (not me) on a recent Guardian article after "predictions by leaders of three of England's biggest cities of social unrest and the break-up of civil society amid new evidence that go...
The best way to update, or upgrade, WordPress (IMO) 31 Dec 2012 | 06:06 pm
Ten easy steps… Having run WordPress since 2005 without any problem I've found that this is the best way to update to the latest version: a manual update over which you have full control compared to t...
Sad Sinkings: Hood and Bismarck 1941, Tirpitz 1944 28 Dec 2012 | 06:05 pm
Reading 'Target Tirpitz' by Patrick Bishop (2012). There's something stark about the sea battles of World War II, especially those fought in the cold waters of the North Atlantic and further north off...
Websites for smartphones, not tablets: a simple strategy 6 Nov 2012 | 04:45 pm
I realised it was time to consider smartphone users in the design of my websites – one of my websites anyway: CycleSeven (a cycling blog). I'm ignoring tablets because the aim is to fit the smaller sm...
Screenplay metaphor 4 Sep 2012 | 03:21 pm
"And then, magically, this whole incredible day just somehow becomes a memory. It's like you go to the beach. You go down to the water. It's a little cold. You're not sure you want to go in. There's a...
Music during Olympic events 14 Aug 2012 | 06:19 pm
Until the 2012 Olympic Games I hadn't realised stadium DJs are employed for sporting events. Background 'musak' between events is bad enough but during events is repulsive. Defending this nauseating p...
Skywalker 8 Aug 2012 | 01:03 pm
Pretty crazy. Crumbling concrete too.
Build my own website 17 Sep 2011 | 08:21 pm
I've recently upgraded my website building system: la-plume. It's free. You can use it to build your own website with no IT skills or technical knowledge at all [...]
