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Wordpress 2.9 notes

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Batch Plug-in Update in Word Press
When Word Press introduced one click upgrade for pluggins, it was like Christmas in July. But this time maybe on the actual Christmas or perhaps slightly earlier with the release of Word Press 2.9, we will now be able to upgrade multiple pluggins with one click from our WordPress Admin [...]

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testing mods to Alex King’s twitter tools

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

I’ve made some modifications to my copy of Alex King’s twitter tools plugin.

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Gen Y: Slackers or Looking for Mentors ??

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

According to AccountancyAge, there is a new breed of employees who job hop and are unwilling to volunteer:
Generation Y also have little job loyalty.
….
‘There can be a sense of “I am better than that” or, somehow, what you asking is beneath them. …. They don’t volunteer, or the ones that do really stand out,’ complains [...]

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ACMA blacklist leaked online

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Too many people knew of the existence of the blacklist. Too many people had motives to see it leaked. Of course, MEGAUPLOAD text file of the ACMA blacklist.
By the way, there are serious issues at stake here.
There is a also PDF version of the ACMA blacklist at whatsup.

Update:
Update of Australian government secret ACMA internet [...]

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Build Your Own D*I*Y Planner

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

You can walk into any Post Office or stationery store and buy a paper planner. There’s also heaps to choose from online.
But a do-it-yourself planner brings customization and scalability. Examples of this are when you don’t want to have to order a new set of custom-print pages from your store-bought planner’s manufacturer every time [...]

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Global Financial Crisis hits Sesame Street

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

The recession has spread from Wall Street to Sesame Street. Sesame Workshop, the 41-year-old non-profit educational organisation behind the Sesame Street television programmes and home to such luminaries as Elmo and Oscar the Grouch announced on Wednesday that it would eliminate a fifth of its 355-strong workforce as market turmoil ate into its income and [...]

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All I ever needed to know in business, I learned in a strip club.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

1) Dancers seemed to be more likely to talk to a customer that had just walked in. Almost before he could get settled.
Be attractive to new customers, but understand its easier to keep the regulars. Make sure that new customers immediately feel important.
2) Dancers tend to approach the same type of men. This is more [...]

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Time to bury the ‘clean coal’ myth

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

From The Guardian’s Greenwash series:
Is clean coal possible in future? Well, if you mean could we capture carbon dioxide emissions and bury them somewhere out of harm’s way – in old coal seams or oilfields or salt mines – yes, it is possible. The former British chief scientist Sir David King called it “the only [...]

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Midnight On The Coast Highway

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

This piece has become known by several names, including “Midnight On The Coast Highway” and “The Dope Cabala and a Wall of Fire”. This is due to it being being excerpetd and published out of context so many times. It’s actually most of the last chapter of Hunter S Thhompson’s 1967 book “Hell’s [...]

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Circumventing Internet Censorship #1

Monday, November 10th, 2008

AlwaysVPN, a free virtual private networking service, is promoted as a way for anyone to browse the web or trading files over a public net connection. And, by the way, it also lets anyone on the outside of a U.S.-only service like Hulu or Pandora get around that often arbitrary restriction.
Hotspot Shield is a [...]

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