September 5th, 2007
One post on this blog gets a significantly higher proportion of spam comment hits than any other. Today provided a little gem in my moderation list.
hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of [...]
August 13th, 2007
One island, one geek, and just five of their cannot live without geek items. Paul Parkinson turns up at the island’s customs office with an unusual request: to trade his choice of website for an additional gadget. Will he manage to persuade our customs officer to approve his request?Main Site www.desertislandgeek.com
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February 22nd, 2007
For a few weeks now I’ve been rediscovering a previously mothballed artisticaly creative side, much of which has utilised one or more of my growing army of Moleskines. See someof the work on my flickr here. Jen, gratifyingly full of encouragement of – and taking inspiration from – this creative activity, came up with a [...]
September 11th, 2006
Normally I post about my limited standup comedy experiences, but this one surpasses anything I experienced. Patton Oswalt is a comedy actor and comedian – if you’ve seen the US sitcom King of Queens, you’ll recognise him as Spence.
You will need to scroll about two thirds down the page to the post entitled : 4/27 [...]
September 9th, 2006
Code Igniter has proved to be a valuable tool in helping to get some of my personal code projects off the ground. Here are the three which are currently in development.
WriteRelief (http://writerelief.co.uk)
WriteRelief is designed to help freelance writers track their submissions to magazines, publications and publishers. The database enables creation of projects from which submissions [...]
September 7th, 2006
In the true spirit of community participation the PodcastconUK organisers are offering free entry on the day to whoever comes up with the best audio promo for this year’s event. The winner will be selected by the UK podcasting community at BritCaster.com after entries close at midnight on Wednesday 20th September.
Details on the PodcastconUK website [...]
August 31st, 2006
If there’s one clear message from the rise of this thing we currently call podcasting (both audio and video) the traditional media industry needs to pay attention to, it’s that the secret is out: creating content people want to watch or listen to is not as hard or expensive to produce as they’ve led us [...]
June 4th, 2006
I cannot honestly say it’s been the greatest struggle ever, but it has been a time of great deliberation about what Linked Media will offer podcasters.The company works to bridge the gulf between podcasters and content providers (i.e. mobile networks, mobile content channels (both referred to as ‘distributor’ from now on), etc. – note the use of the word mobile more than once).From face to face discussions I have already had, the mobile space is looking for more content and looking at podcasting as a source of that content…. It is certainly forward thinking, way forward in fact because right now the broad take-up of podcasts over mobile networks is severely stifled by the cost of mobile bandwidth.When the cost does come down – and it will, whether it be in a month, two months or a year – we hope Linked Media will be in a strong enough position, with perhaps some content supply deals already in place, to help get the podcasters out there.
January 23rd, 2006
They have integrated some lovely AJAX enabled online post creation and editing, but many bloggers use offline editors to manage the post content.Thankfully the fix is just a matter of tweaking two lines of code in a single PHP file – and the next Wordpress update will have the problem solved, apparently. You can find the fix here: ecto: WordPress 2.0 breaks upload (fixes), and it seems to work just fine.Still some issue of not having control over where the file upload is stored, but for me that’s a problem I can live with.
November 29th, 2005
Enough for an entire and disturbingly large website, it seems.So get a coffee, kick back and relax with more bee-dogs than you can buzz your fuzz at (and a sprinkle of ladybug-dogs to boot). See such magical sights as the owner who actually died their dog’s fur bee-coloured, the selection of less than perfectly content to be a bee-dog dogs, and of course, my favourite: Samuel L Jackson the bee-dog (click inset picture for a large version).Discovered via If…Else via Paint the Tiger – Carve the Swan.
