Monthly Archives: May 2009

I had an interesting through today whilst having a shower after coming back from the beach. Well, I was thinking about the energy the shower uses to turn water in to hot water for you to have your shower (we have one of these electric showers that heats the water jut before it comes out [...] Continue reading →

I’ve just installed WordPress 2.8 Beta 2 on this blog to give it a try and everything seems to be working smoothly. I’ve already blogged about the features I like in WordPress 2.8 and I think this drop is going to be a winner.
The more I use WordPress, the happier I get that I’ve selected [...] Continue reading →

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I’ve been playing with Magento recently putting together a new shopping site for The Ballet Shop and have been pretty impressed with the level of functionality and the stability it offers. Anyway, I’ve got the the point of starting to look at what plugins are available and came across a top list of [...] Continue reading →

photo credit: ehpien
We haven’t had a joke here for some time, so here’s one that some techies may be familiar with:
Tech: Computer Services Orange County this is so-and-so speaking. May I have your username please?
Female Customer: Yes I want to speak to the person in charge immediately!
Tech: Speaking. What can I do for you?
Female [...] Continue reading →

photo credit: ehpien
We haven’t had a joke here for some time, so here’s one that some techies may be familiar with:
Tech: Computer Services Orange County this is so-and-so speaking. May I have your username please?
Female Customer: Yes I want to speak to the person in charge immediately!
Tech: Speaking. What can I do for you?
Female [...] Continue reading →

photo credit: ehpien
We haven’t had a joke here for some time, so here’s one that some techies may be familiar with:
Tech: Computer Services Orange County this is so-and-so speaking. May I have your username please?
Female Customer: Yes I want to speak to the person in charge immediately!
Tech: Speaking. What can I do for you?
Female [...] Continue reading →

photo credit: ehpien
We haven’t had a joke here for some time, so here’s one that some techies may be familiar with:
Tech: Computer Services Orange County this is so-and-so speaking. May I have your username please?
Female Customer: Yes I want to speak to the person in charge immediately!
Tech: Speaking. What can I do for you?
Female [...] Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 has been running on this blog for a few days now and everything seems to be running just nicely. There are a whole list of changes that made it into this release. Here are my favourite improvements:

New Theme Installer routines
Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
Add Documentation(function) [...] Continue reading →

I’ve got a “fun day” packed with events tomorrow, which may be of interest to some of my readers; well, if you’re based in the the Isle of Man anyway.

Social Media Club (Third Thursday) – There’s a whopper of an event focusing on eDemocracy by Simon Collister, a Manx-born social media guru whose areas of [...] Continue reading →

I’ve just installed WordPress v2.8 Beta 1 on this blog to see what the new release is going to look like. I haven’t had time to explore the changes yet, the UI looks pretty similar to 2.7, and I haven’t really caught on on the release notes. I’m hoping that there are some nice finishing [...] Continue reading →