Dave

Dave

WordPress 2.0 Upgrade

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…

Businessman wins e-mail spam case

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…

Links 27/12/05

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…

Christmas Eve links

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…

Advent Calendar

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

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…

Extending FireFox

Have finally got round to installing the Performancing extension to FireFox, and it works a treat! Here’s a snapshot of me using it to write this post. It even drags in your categories and previous entries for you! I did…

Theme disaster

Due to a total cock-up on the theme for this blog, I have had to revert it back to the original Beeblebrox one. Will have my changes back in place sometime tomorrow, hopefully!

Links 21/12/05

Google Modules – add functionality to your personalised Google home page Steve Rubel writes about the Performancing FireFox extension – which from “any page in your browser, just right click and special blog publishing frame opens. Fill it out, add…

Japan ‘groper’ dies after beating

From BBC News: A Japanese man has died after being tackled by fellow train passengers who believed he had molested a woman during the morning rush hour. The man fled the train at a station in the city of Osaka…