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Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 17th, 2008
Blog SPAM. I hate it - you hate it - everybody hates it. Since blogs first came into existence the nefarious net dwellers targeted the comments section of blogs as a way of trying to ply their wares. I have personally visited blogs that have been virtually ruined by comments that have huge [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
I had a big problem within about 3 days of starting this blog. I changed to fancy permalinks rather than the default ones.
For those of you who are not familiar with the terms here let me clarify this. Essentially, the permalink is literally the permanent link (ah - PERMA-LINK) to your blog post. [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 31st, 2008
WordPress has reached version 2.5 (WordPress is the GPL OpenSource software used by bloggers), and I have dutifully applied the upgrade to this blog.
Mostly it has been painless and the improvements are many. Obviously there are quite a few niggles (can’t make omelettes without breaking eggs etc….), so I thought I would do a [...]
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 4th, 2008
Seems like the government have had enough now. New rules will mean that any licenced premise that is caught selling alcohol to underage people more than once will have their licence removed.
I am quite certain that there housing estates in the UK who will be thoroughly delighted when/if this legislation comes in.
Underage drinking has [...]
