blogging

Expand truncated feeds
I hate truncated feeds in my reader. After subscribing to a feed that turns out to be truncated I usually end up skipping every single post for a few days and then unsubscribe. Admittedly I'm oversubscribed (a few hundred items...
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Robot
Robot, originally uploaded by jbraine. Test post for posting to Wordpress directly from Flickr. Was driving me crazy getting this set up. If you have trouble getting this working this might be the problem: Go to wordpress Settings page >...
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Bye Blogger!
Have been meaning to move from the piece of shit Blogger over to Wordpress for ages now. The only thing that was delaying me was that I wanted to re-design the whole site but could just never get around to...
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Irish Blog awards 2009
Just a quick one on the blog awards while I get a chance. What a cracking night. There was something in the air as soon as we arrived. Great atmosphere and good spirits all around. Really was a cracker. The...
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Best technology blogger!?
In case you came here from today's Irish Blog Awards nominations and wondering how the hell I got nominated as a best technology blogger... well, me too! Ok I knew there were on or two technology posts so I had...
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No comment!
Oooh I love a bit of irony with my cornflakes. Blogger have a blog post about making comments easier. I went to leave a comment on it but comments were disabled! I turned on this new feature on my blog...to...
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A thousand words
Last November Claire Gingerpixel decided that instead of moaning about the lack of non-denominational schools (which is all I manage to do) she'd try and set one up. Fast forward 10 months to the start of September, and there she...
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Installing and reskinning a WordPress blog
This post is both for people with web design experience but who haven’t yet used Wordpress and it might be useful for regular Joes or small companies who want to install a default Wordpress blog engine on a site at...
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Another google reader tip.
Did you know, you can add a next button to your browser and it will open the next unread item in your Google reader list? But it opens the pages on the actual web sites they come from. This adds...
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Shocked and stunned
I was shocked and stunned to win best newcomer at the Irish blog Awards last night... for this frivolous little thing. Really. I personally thought K8 the Great or Roy were going to win. Or any of the other great...
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