Archive for April, 2008
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… but only because it’s over 60% sugar!
On SocialSpark earlier, I came across a ‘Spark’ (read: things people want you to write about but they’re not prepared to pay you for it) about these lollipops that are supposed to be unique and give you lots of energy because of the nutrients they contain. Being involved [...]
Those darn smileys
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Update: Thanks to some (no actually a lot of) help from Collin in the comments I found the right things to change to fix the smiley problem. And, in fixing that, the problem I was having embedding images in posts has also been fixed. So, big thanks to Collin and Muppet award to me for [...]
“Ridiculous overuse of Council power” story of the week
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Found this story on the BBC website and just had to share it with you, as it’s so amazingly stupid.
A man now has a criminal record because he over-filled his wheelie bin and the lid wouldn’t shut properly. The council decided that this was obviously the work of a unreconstructed scum-of-the-earth type and sent the [...]
Why is that so difficult?
Sunday, April 20th, 2008I just wrote a long post about SocialSpark. During the course of that post, I included some screenshots of various parts of the website using the insert image function of ecto to put them in place.
In ecto (and in the feed for the blog) they appeared as they should - text, followed by image on [...]
SocialSpark: all it’s cracked up to be?
Sunday, April 20th, 2008First of all, let me say that this post is an an attempt to give you a quick overview of the recently launched SocialSpark phenomena (if, indeed, that is what it is), as well as highlight some good and bad points about the whole thing.
Second of all, let me apologise for the fact that this [...]