• Two years and another revamp

    calendar Aug 2, 2016 · 2 min read  ·
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    Two years and another revamp

    Has it really been two years? Early in June 2014 I posted about the Nineties wanting their website back and since that re-vamp I’ve only posted one other item to the blog. Talk about slack. So now I find myself in August 2016 and re-building the blog again. This time a shift to WordPress along with a cleaner visually …


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  • The Nineties have been calling

    calendar Jun 4, 2014 · 2 min read  ·
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    For the last three or four years, possibly more there’s been this niggling little noise in my head every time I looked at my own blog. It’s not that it’s the most important site I look after, and I really only set it up to test ideas and post the occasional rant but it turns out the 1990’s were indeed calling, asking …


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  • Should this be forgotten?

    calendar May 15, 2014 · 3 min read  ·
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    Should this be forgotten?

    A tale of my slightly oblique involvement in transgender employment experiences. The recent news about the ruling in Europe around the concept of the ‘right to be forgotten’ got me to thinking it was time I did a bit of ego surfing earlier on tonight. For those not entirely familiar ego surfing is putting your own name …


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  • When the Cloud goes bad

    calendar Apr 16, 2014 · 4 min read  ·
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    When the Cloud goes bad

    Before you read too much further this is a bit of a self-serving rant, bought on indirectly by the heartbleed bug published a couple of weeks ago. I’m a fan of cloud hosted virtual Linux servers for hosting and messing about of the geeky kind. The ability to spin up a box and play with it to your hearts content then …


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  • Its Been a While

    calendar Apr 7, 2013 · 4 min read  ·
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    It’s not that I didn’t have anything to say, it’s just that I keep on convincing myself I was too busy to say it. Or something like that. Since I last posted lots has happened that’s noteworthy in my world, so I feel a little guilty for not saying at least something. In the Online marketing / SEO world two cute black …


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  • Productivity tools can be viable alternatives to work

    calendar Jul 19, 2010 · 2 min read  ·
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    Ever since some smart chap, or chappess, came up with the idea of a check list and impressed the boss the world has been beset with a search for bigger, better tools to replace what was essentially a very good idea. Taken to the it’s illogical conclusion this search can lead even the most sensible people to a point …


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  • Taking joy from simple news: IE6 and Youtube

    calendar Feb 25, 2010 · 2 min read  ·
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    Anyone who has anything even remotely to do with web development will be smiling at the news that Youtube is going to discontinue support for IE6. Not only that, we’ve got a date. 13th of March, 2010. While this isn’t really the end, it will certainly put that little bit more pressure on the roughly 15-20% of internet …


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  • The Carpenters Hammer

    calendar Jan 28, 2010 · 5 min read  ·
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    This is a story for everyone who has a need of tools no matter what their craft or trade. The Carpenters Hammer, a painters brushes, the janitors broom. A few years ago, about eighteen in fact, we lived in a 2 bedroom flat in Christchurch city. It was in a block of four on a section which probably should have only held …


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