Monthly Archives: August 2008

New Coda

August 27, 2008 – 7:17 am

If you do any website development on a Mac, then you may know that Coda by Panic is a wonderful text editor for all things web. It’s elegant and has every thing you need in one place without any clutter - well almost everything.
Panic has just released a new version (1.5) and has [...]

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Georgian Wine and Blogging

August 22, 2008 – 6:49 pm

At the height of Russia’s invasion of Georgia, I tried to decipher what the very active Russian blogosphere was saying. I took a gander at the blogs (mostly Live Journal) carried on Yandex. I do read and speak a bit of Russian, but I find Russian bloggers incredibly hard to understand. [...]

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Clarkson for PM

August 20, 2008 – 2:16 pm

Who says Gordon doesn’t have a sense of humour?
An amusing video response from the Number 10 website to the petition to make Top Gear Presenter Jeremy Clarkson PM. By the way, the Number 10 site works on WordPress, as does the Top Gear site.

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Common Complaints about Websites

August 16, 2008 – 3:00 pm

I saw an author friend yesterday. She had a few interesting grumbles about her website, and although I would like to link to it, I suppose for discretion’s sake I had better not say who she is.
Her website looks beautiful, and at first she was very pleased with it, but [...]

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British Library, Security, Knives

August 16, 2008 – 2:41 pm

It’s Saturday, and I am sitting among the lap-top tappers in the cafe of the British Library. It’s one of the most roomy and pleasant places in London for those of us in search of a free desk for the day. Though I bring my mobile 3 connection because the WiFi really does [...]

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Joined Open Rights

August 14, 2008 – 2:32 pm

I finally joined the Open Rights Organisation. It certainly wasn’t the chance of winning the book that they are currently offering up as a prize in their membership drive (though I’m sure it makes fascinating reading if you are into that sort of thing ). In the end it was the tireless [...]

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WordPress London Meetup

August 7, 2008 – 9:54 pm

Here’s a date in the diary for all London based WordPress bloggers and developers. The first of what hopefully will turn out to be regular meet-ups will be in One Tun pub in Goodge Street on Wednesday 13th August. Sign up if you are coming here. Thanks again to Tony Scott the [...]

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Gordon Brown and Social Media

August 5, 2008 – 7:59 am

Gordon Brown has his flickr account, his twitter stream, and his forthcoming WordPress site. (Built by New Media Maze)
Cool.
But where is it getting him? He’s the most unpopular prime minister in history.
Let’s face it, the Great Gordo is hardly a ringing endorsement for social media.
I don’t mean to be [...]

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