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Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 17th, 2008
Getting Adsense into your posts isn’t difficult - it is just a bit time consuming. In addition to taking time for each instance of the ads you want to show, there is a concern that readers have become ‘Ad Blind’, and so showing the same format of ads may be less effective (in click [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
DailyBlogTips released the Homepage Excerpts plugin way back in 2007, and have made sure that is stays compatible with Wordpress right the way up to the current (at the time of writing) 2.5 version.
Essentially the idea of this plugin is simple. It allows the blogger control over the way that information is presented on [...]
In a remarkable twist the Police in Goa have announced that they believe murdered 15year old Scarlett Keeling was drugged prior to being raped and killed.
A few short days ago Police in Goa had originally stated that the Bideford teenager had accidentally drowned. A second post-mortem then led to the conclusion that she had [...]
Posted in Tech on Mar 12th, 2008
The Japanese are currently investigating incidents of the 2GB iPod Nano emitting sparks and setting fire to things!
It appears that when the 2GB iPod Nano (from Apple) is recharged a fault is causing it to emit sparks and cause the fire risk.
Japanese shops have sold in excess of 400 000 of these units and authorities [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 12th, 2008
Chief Constable Mike Todd was a ‘Coppers’ Copper’ according to his colleagues. He was well respected, at the top of his game, and had a reputation for making the difficult arrest and the difficult statements in public.
Mike had challenged organised crime directly and was at the forefront on the ‘battle on terror’.
Judged as the ideal [...]
