“A kind of weblogged almanac of assorted interests to keep my hand in with writing, SEO, design, ads, analytics, Gen’ AI and other technologies…”
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Ultimate Sausage Casserole
Ingredients 8 Cumberland Sausages Onion (one large) Garlic (2 cloves) Peppers Mushrooms Butter beans (2x400g tins) Tinned Tomatoes (1 tin) Assorted herbs Chicken stock (300ml) The method: Grill the sausages and put to one side.…
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Random music that made me smile..
This is what happens when you mash the last 30 years of pop songs that all use the same 4 chords together! Properly random song by ‘The Axis of Awesome’
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Spotify on the App Store? In a word…
Update@ 04/04/2020:So, 11 years later and paid subscription models that remove the ads, the advent of high speed mobile connectivity, and a generation of people who have grown up streaming free music on YouTube and…
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Email Marketing – Open Rates: subject line rules and content is key
I’ve been a/b testing a lot lately – I usually do this with most of my campaigns, using a sample group to test and then sending the best subject line to the rest of the…
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Alphabetical ordering of wordpress post
I found this post (http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/01/22/6-ways-to-customize-wordpress-post-order/) about how to get your wordpress posts sorted alphabetically and thought I would drop it here until I have time to get a fix on my recipe’s website [Edit: now…
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CSS Z-Index – Creating an adjustable background image for a page
I have been messing around with z-index recently for styling documents. I have been meaning to use it as a much more efficient way of creating cool backgrounds but it’s always been a bit of…
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WordPress code for highlighted category links
If you want to display a higlighted category to your visitors so that they know where they are in the site, use the following code, which checks to see if the page is of a…
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Round the Island ’09
Well it was another good race round the island this year – we didn’t do quite as well, but it was just as eventful! We started at 0750 on Saturday morning heading west from Cowes…
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WordPress
As part of learning how to use wordpress for work (we are switching all our sites to it) I have decided to port all my websites to the wordpress CMS in order to learn a…
Any good recommendations for books, podcasts or blogs?