Jan
31
I’m regularly running about 10 websites now, 8 of them with the utterly spundacious Wordpress platform. Here are my essentials plugins to install onto a brand new Wordpress installation, if only for my own reference…
P.S. This will be a movable feast - if I find better ones, or someone points out how wrong I am, [...]
Jan
31
Linkblog between January 28th and January 30th:
Google’s unknown artist - Logo-tastic.
Top 10 accidental discoveries - Whoops, I’ve saved the world.
Photo of Red Cross credit card exploited by fraudsters -
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena - Well, now I’m all blurry.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About You | LiveScience - You?re smuggling corrosive acid in your [...]
Jan
23
Now, I’m not a great games player. Hell, sitting in my front room is an Xbox 360 elite, Playstation 2 and Wii that are begging to differ - but I’m not a *real* games player. I don’t spend hours thrashing my way through cyborgs and aliens with friends and enemies in equal measure. I don’t [...]
Jan
20
Linkblog between January 3rd and January 19th:
The Tom Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress - Wow. He’s in deep.
IKEA product naming conventions. - My friend’s table comes from the wobblileggs collection.
Ice is Dangerous -
Just so you know, this is an automated recent overview of the Linkblog, a collection of interesting links I find [...]
Jan
09
The mood was sombre.
And that was just in my car - I couldn’t find the crematorium for love nor money. The postcode Google had given me was a good mile for where I eventually found Headington Crematorium, near Oxford, with 5 minutes to spare before the funeral of Alison Richards, my OBE-entrusted relative who had [...]
Jan
03
High fever? Feeling nauseous? Vomiting from *both* ends of your body?
You’ve got a norovirus, whose name is the only awesome thing about it. You’re not alone, it seems: BBC: Stomach bug sweeping the country. Here are the symptoms - and here’s some handy hints for being less ill in the future…
To keep up to date, [...]
Dec
31
Linkblog between December 27th and December 30th:
62 Little Known Uses Of Vinegar - I’m thinking we need a lot more vinegar.
The Impossible Knot Video - Tested, tried and confirmed. One hell of a knot.
Everything you know about absinthe is wrong - As I know nothing about Absinthe, does that mean I’m right?
Seth’s Blog: Only two [...]
Dec
29
I broke the news of my relative Alison Richards’ death a couple of weeks ago. It seems that her efforts were to be justly rewarded - she received notification that she was to be awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours just days before her death. If ever there was a case of a [...]
Dec
25
A very merry Christmas to everyone! And if you get presents you’d rather not have got, remember this sage advice from BBC News: How to receive a goat (and other unglamorous gifts).
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Dec
25
Linkblog between December 23rd and December 24th:
Flickr Related Tag Browser - An awesome way to see Flickr photos
Zero Punctuation: Guitar Hero III - Talking of Guitar Hero, Zero Punctuation gives a immensely entertaining review of it. In fact, watch all his reviews on that site - breathtakingly hilarious!
9 year old is inhuman at Guitar Hero [...]