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The Mighty Boosh are back on BBC Three … erm, some time soon.
I really should do my research before venturing into blog land. I know, let’s settle on Tuesday 26 July, and if we can all contact the BBC and demand that that should be the day the new series begins that would make […]

It’s been a really odd day today.
Thursday is usually my day off, but today I’ve had to finish plan a funeral for Friday (tomorrow) as the details from the family didn’t arrive until after 10pm last night, and in a couple of hours I’m off to church to conduct a wedding rehearsal for a wedding […]

The latest blog comment spam I’m getting is about “Online craps”.
I hope that’s not what I think it is.

Since the bombings in London a week past yesterday (Thursday), when 52 people were killed at the hands of terrorists, over 240,000 children have died as a result of poverty in the world.
It feels like people have forgotten about the drive to rid the world of poverty? Why aren’t people up in arms (limbs, […]

Something that annoys me a little about WordPress — that has changed between v.1.2 and the latest v.1.5 — is the code it automatically generates for uploaded image files.
When you Upload a file WordPress automatically generates the XHTML code for you, so that you can simply copy and paste it into a post or page, […]

I’m currently reading the new book, Yes Man, by my friend (and cult leader) Danny Wallace. It’s good. I’ll not spoil it for you.
Actually, given that I haven’t finished it yet, I guess, technically, I can’t spoil it too much. That would be a bit like me reading one of the […]

Here’s an interesting find. I did a search on Amazon for Drupal and found this yet-to-be-published book, from APress:
Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress, by Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little and Jared W. Smith (APress, November 2005, ISBN 1-59059-562-9).

(The hyperlinks point to the Apress website, not Amazon UK.)
Two technologies that I already […]