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I can’t help it. I’m a techie.

So, it’s been noted that the content of this blog over the course of the last few months has verged too much towards the inanely dull and technical. That’s just the way it’s gone recently as I’ve done lots of techie things. This blog is as much a place to share new internet toys with [...]

RSS Alerts to IM: immedi.at

Never been much for actually using RSS readers. What I really wanted was a way of knowing when new posts had been added to blogs I read. So – I looked, and I found! http://immedi.at/ Simple bookmarklet which will send you instant messages whenever monitored urls are updated. Very cool. Chuck – another good reason [...]

WordPress Rich Text butchering HTML?

Hmm. I’m got mixed feelings about the rich text editor in WordPress. Even when you go to edit the HTML is the pop up window, it lies to you. Attempting to make some pages validate correctly made me realise that WordPress wasn’t always showing me what was actually there. The HTML pop up window would [...]

New Toy – FAlbum for our Photos! (Still using Flickr)

Whilst I’ve been playing around with trying to get the CSS working attempting to blog photos from Flickr, I came across an awesome lil WordPress plugin called FAlbum. This uses the Flickr API to show you all the images from your Flickr account, including all the sets, tags and descriptions. You don’t get the community [...]

Hmm … old photos …

Seems I posted quite a few of the old photos on this site directly to Blogger, and you can’t access those externally. Will migrate all the old photos across to Flickr and reindex the old blog posts soon. Cos I know you all enjoy reading the old stuff. I also promise to correctly categorise all [...]