Tag Archives: blogging

Back to WordPress

by Tom on 15. Sep, 2008 in blogging

After a brief sojorn with having my blog hosted by Tumblr, I have returned to hosting it myself using WordPress. Whilst I love the tools that Tumblr provides, I just found it all a bit too limiting. Seeing some of the wonderful WordPress blogs written by folks that I met at BathCamp made me realise [...]

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Twitter Digests

by Tom on 04. Apr, 2008 in blogging

I’ve just switched off the automatic posting of Twitter digests to this blog, and given my Tweets a nice little home in the sidebar. Seeing my blog fill up with posts called something like “Twitter Updates for 2008-04-03” and looking at the ramblings within made it look like I had abandoned it (I’ve just been [...]

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Splogging

by Tom on 15. Nov, 2007 in blogging

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 [...]

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Testing Ecto 3 alpha

by Tom on 14. Aug, 2007 in Apple, Software, blogging

Way back in the dim and distant past, before my other blog, Past Thinking, began to focus solely upon heritage matters, I reviewed Ecto 2. Now, 2 years later, I’m writing this with the alpha version of Ecto 3. This isn’t a full review – this is really just a test drive of the alpha [...]

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WordPressDash Success

by Tom on 13. Mar, 2007 in Random

Well, it seems that WordPressDash worked as planned with WordPress 2.1.2, so hopefully this should see me posting here more frequently, if this widget (which I had used a long time ago, but had forgotten) is hanging about on my (oft-used) dashboard. Remember that I post archaeology and heritage related information over at Past Thinking [...]

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WordPressDash

by Tom on 13. Mar, 2007 in Random

This is just a quick test post to see if WordPressDash, a widget for OSX’s Dashboard, still works with WordPress 2.1.x I should also be able to use tags from this widget, thanks to Ultimate Tag Warrior‘s ability to find embedded tags within the post itself. Well, if you’re reading this, and there are tags [...]

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