http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog Where everything comes together Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:00:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just saw this video which was referred to on Keith's 'Unsuitablog' I love this video - and it pretty much sums up why I feel so uncomfortable with the level of greenwash that we are subjected to on a daily basis. The whole 'civilisation' game is a very finite game ... http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog/2008/11/how-civilised/ 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 of my own blog actually - I like being inspired, ... http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog/2008/11/give-me-your-favourite-quotes/ I just saw this and was moved, no introduction needed really... even if it is 'rooted' in the work of the Nike Foundation... (time to put some sweat shop profits to good use?). By Girleffect.org http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog/2008/11/the-girl-effect/ now when i tweet - it changes my facebook status too :) # http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog/2008/11/twitter-updates-for-2008-11-09/ has just installed twitter tools for wordpress.. look out twitterland! # getting confused by SVN CLI while playing with wordpress-mu and buddypress # http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog/2008/11/twitter-updates-for-2008-11-08/ 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. The post that I thought might be of interest is this one ... http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog/2008/11/mind-the-gap/ 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 in /home/user/public_html/page.php on line xx Warning: include(http://www.somedomain.com/file.php) [function.include]: failed to open ... http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog/2008/10/problem-with-php-includes-when-upgrading-from-php4-to-php5/ Let Leo tell you a story... Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog/2008/09/wake-up-freak-out-then-get-a-grip/ My favourite web browser - Mozilla's Firefox, has recently begun to cause consternation - only on my work PC. On the laptop it is fine. There are a gazillion blog/forum posts complaining about the new functionality of said URL bar, but so far I haven't found anyone else describing the ... http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog/2008/09/firefox-301-location-url-bar-autocomplete-broken-and-rss-live-feed-bookmarks/ I finally succumbed to installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my Asus F5RL laptop yesterday... it all seemed to go well, until I was surfing around the web and noticed that my internet connectivity dropped out (but my wireless connection to the router seemed fine). I tried an ipconfig ... http://www.convergency.co.uk/blog/2008/09/wireless-trouble-after-installing-xp-sp3/