Dave

The WordPress blog has finally announced the release of version 2.0, or ‘Duke’. The post presents a nice list of new features for users: Completely Redesigned Backend — The first thing you’ll notice when you login to your blog is…

Am currently three-quarters of the way through Alain de Botton’s The Consolations of Philosophy. It’s good stuff so far. It dicusses a particular aspect of six philosophers’ work: Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Having looked up a couple…

Written by the man himself!

Librivox is an interesting project, a kind of audio Gutenberg, running on a mixture of WordPress and phpBB. Volunteers collaborate on recording mp3s of classic, out-of-copyright texts. As with all these things, the quality must be variable, but it is…

very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency [x] Well, I have upgraded to WordPress 2.0 and it was as seamless as always, no problems whatsoever. Will now get in touch with Rick and Chilli about getting theirs sorted…

Interesting story from the BBC: Businessman wins e-mail spam caseA businessman has won what is believed to be the first victory of its kind by claiming damages from a company which sent him e-mail spam. Nigel Roberts, who lives in…

Office Weblog: Meme of the day: Outlook 12 and RSS OH MY GOD…! – Trent End Talk on Boxing Day’s game: Forest 4 Donny 0! Festivus has been mentioned to me a few times over the last few days… Terminated…

God, I am a sad git doing this today. Still, here goes: Martin Rowson retells Tristam Shandy in the Guardian The Google blog post about the AOL deal …and the Guardian‘s view of the deal That’s it. Have a good…

A poem from today’s Guardian Review by Rowan Williams: Advent Calendar He will come like last leaf’s fall.One night when the November windhas flayed the trees to bone, and earthwakes choking on the mould,the soft shroud’s folding. He will come…

WordPress and the Performancing Extension is a great tutorial for setting up Performancing to work with a custom WordPress install. Currently my only real gripe is with the insertion of images, where to add an ‘alt’ tag one has to…