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UKGovWeb Barcamp

2008: November 24 (Monday) - 19:03

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Posted in geekcons, misc, scripts, software | No comments

Hum, so there’s another UKGovWeb Barcamp in the pipe-line. Good-oh, says I.
To work around my hatred of PBWiki’s “notification” system, I’ve just re-appropriated (and made ‘ukgovweb-check‘) my dell-order-checking script to work for the wiki-page; changelog is that the script now uses lynx instead of wget, and that we send the difflog, rather than the [...]

1000 Twits

2008: November 21 (Friday) - 20:49

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Posted in misc, numbers, twitter | No comments

Yes, yes, I know Twitter wants us to call them “tweets”, but I think “twits” is far more appropriate.
Anyhow, I’ve just made my thousandth post (shamelessly plugging this article), and thought: “given its gravitas (the number, not any of my drivel), let’s make it a bit more than the usual moans”. So, to Wikiquote I [...]

Can’t upload images to a Wordpress blog?

2008: October 15 (Wednesday) - 17:24

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Posted in Uncategorized, openrights, rant, software | 2 comments

If, like the guys in the ORG HQ, you find yourself unable to upload images in a Wordpress Blog, and are befuddled by the reams of posts &c on the web, well, here’s another idea that might sort you out:
Remove the crap from old installs, in your ~/.mozilla directory. And by crap, well, I mean:

appreg
mozver.dat
pluginreg.dat
plugins/

cd [...]

Catching up with the 21st Century.

2008: September 23 (Tuesday) - 02:44

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Posted in scripts, software | No comments

Well, in an half-arsed manner, I’m finally catching up with this century’s gizmo, that most people didn’t believe I didn’t use.
RSS.
I say kinda, ‘cos, despite having finally found something non-intrusive, and with a UI that doesn’t suck, I still don’t check the webpage it makes. Despite it updating.
Of course, I should have thought “I know [...]

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