Tom Goskar

Freelance consultant for digital heritage

Month: November 2007

  • Linux Training

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    This week I’m attending a number of Linux courses run by Well House Consultants. So far we’ve covered the basics of Linux and an introduction to Linux administration. Thursday and Friday will cover the beginnings of Linux web servers, so I have my tinfoil hat wedged firmly on my head this week. It’s great to…

  • Splogging

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    I’ve noticed a new type of spam in the past month or so. Buried in the hundreds of spam comments left on this blog and the countless others that I look after I’ve noted that some of them are trackbacks containing excerpts of my own posts. They have often been subtlely changed by using synonyms…

  • Facebook is morphing steadily into MySpace

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    I have a MySpace account purely because I have a few friends on there, and have had to use it to send the odd message once in a blue moon. I hate the way MySpace looks – it’s cluttered, slow, gaudy, clunky, and I just don’t like it. When Facebook came around, naturally, I signed…

  • WordPress Dashboard Widgets

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    Does anyone know of a decent OSX dashboard widget for posting to a WordPress blog? I’ve been using WordPressDash on and off for over two years now, and in Leopard some strange things have happened to its appearance. One that supports WP2.3’s tags would be nice. Ideas, anyone?

  • Blogging habits, Twitter and aggregators

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    I haven’t been posting much to this blog, or to Past Thinking lately. There’s been no reason for this except perhaps that I’ve just got out of the habit of blogging. I don’t want to force myself to post things to my blog, but I think I’ll try and remember to post little snippets of…