Things I learnt when migrating from Blogger
DaleSo you want to move from Blogger to WordPress? I don’t blame you, Blogger has it’s limitations. The one’s which annoyed me were: not being able to use my own…
So which Greater Internet Dickwad do we have?
The Troll A sad individual who lashes out at anyone, for the sole reason of provoking a response. Troll comes from the adjective Trolling. The Rager In some ways, a…
eTrust AntiVirus, and directories / processes you should exclude from scanning.
Computer Associates used to recommend excluding particular processes and directories from eTrust anti-virus scanning. This, I found, was very important with Microsoft SQL Server, as it would cause a significant…
“Developing For Office – Options and Trade-Offs”
According to Bruno Terkaly, you have three main choices: Traditional Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Dates back to all the way to the early nineties. Visual Studio Tools for Office.…
“The rules concerning the use of apostrophes in written English are very simple”
They are used to denote a missing letter or letters They are used to denote possession … however, if there are two or more things the apostrophe comes after the…
Hotlinking Thieving Bastard
I was chuffed that someone linked to my “What coffee drink is that” post. I first saw the chart at another blog, so I grabbed a copy of it. My…
Link Checker – another WordPress plugin
Link Checker is designed to crawl though your blog, verifying that the links you’ve linked to are still there. Now my utility of choice is Xenu, and I blogged about…
The Elephant and The Mouse
The Pantone Matching System is a wonderful idea. Imagine being able to say “I want that exact shade of red on my poster.” And actually get it. That, in a…
No games for you!
There is an line of thinking, which quite a few companies follow, that you can’t have games on a company PC because “employees may play games all day”.(1) I’m sure…
The name of the actress in the iSelect TV ads is
Camilla Borde-Davis. Also known as Milli Davis and Camilla Jackson. You can see her IMDB profile here. I’m sure this will be a question in a pub trivia night competition…