Archive for January, 2008
« Previous EntriesBeadle’s NOT About
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008The BBC are reporting the news that Jeremy Beadle, well-known TV prankster and game-show host, has died after a long period of ill-health.
I wanted to make a joke about it along the lines of how it’s all a con - just another Beadle prank to make someone look silly, but I couldn’t find the right [...]
Zen and the art of website construction
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008You’ll have noticed that there haven’t been many posts recently - this despite me signing up to the Blog365 Challenge - and those that there have been have been moaning about software.
Well, the reason for less posts is that I’m still trying to get a handle on Zen Cart, the shopping cart / database software [...]
Doing away with those January blues
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008January is one of those strange times of year; it should be good, because we’re over the Christmas hump and moving forward into a new year with all of the promise that brings; we’re past the shortest day, so nights and mornings are gradually getting lighter; everything is being re-born for a fresh assault on [...]
Going Self-Hosted with Wordpress
Monday, January 28th, 2008The Wolfie Guide for Going Self-Hosted with Wordpress is now available as a PDF download, for anyone that might find it useful.
It includes the three articles so far published and will be updated as and when new articles become available.
(If you find any errors, please let me know and I’ll put them right in the [...]
Those golden days
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Pete over at CodeHappy has been getting all nostalgic recently because it’s 25 years since the Commodore 64 was launched on the world. Reading his post got me thinking about my forays into the world of computing.
The first computer I ever used - and then the first computer I ever owned - was the Sinclair [...]