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How wrong was goldilocks?

Hahaha. I have often noticed some amusing suggestions when typing in a search query into my Firefox Google search box – but someone showed me this collection of 20 funniest suggestions on Google Suggest on the Telegraph site today and … Continue reading

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How to install WordPress MU using SVN

I had to get my head around this for WP standard work recently, and thought I would combine it with some WP-MU experimentation.
Current release (at time of writing) WP-MU 2.6.5
Page on WP Codex on setting up WP with Subversion … Continue reading

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Give me your favourite quotes

I have been using a great little WordPress plug-in called ‘Quotes Collection‘ on this blog – it’s great for grabbing those quotes you see popping up over the web and adding them to your blog. It is my favourite aspect … Continue reading

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Mind the gap

I am not the only one fretting about over-specialisation it seems. I was pointed to Sharon Astyk’s ‘Casaubon’s Book’ blog by this Eating the Seasons post, which mentioned the book Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front.
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Problem with php includes when upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5

A friend come client of mine had a problem today – he was getting errors with his website, but had done nothing to the site. Errors a bit like this:
Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration … Continue reading

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