Category: Internet


Censorship

Dec 7, 2008 Author Nik

Well, it seems the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), an independent UK-based Internet watchdog, has got itself into what could be a major publicity debacle; one from which it simply cannot emerge without losing a lot of face.

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Tomorrow: Blog Action Day

Oct 14, 2008 Author Nik

I just found out from StatCounter.com that tomorrow is Blog Action Day ’08, a well-meaning attempt to turn the online community’s attention to the topic for this year: global poverty.

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Hardcore HTML

Sep 8, 2008 Author Nik

I’ve never really had any cause to write large posts using WordPress, except for my NSLU2 guides – and even then the built-in WYSIWYG editor was good enough, albeit a little clunky and requiring gentle persuasion every so often.

But after changing blog themes the other day, I realised the NSLU2 pages were actually quite dependent on the underlying CSS – and for some themes, this means that they looked rubbish.

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Another new look

Sep 4, 2008 Author Nik

One of the features of WordPress is the ability to change the theme of a blog with the click of a button; and that’s exactly what I did when the K2 theme, although quite powerful in its own right, was found lacking again.

With this theme, my NSLU2 guides currently look like they were formatted by a 4-year-old, so I might get round to fixing them, eventually. They’re by far the most popular pages on this site!


Never simple

May 27, 2008 Author Nik

At the weekend I decided to make a major update to the photo gallery, since a large number of photos weren’t up yet. Although a bit clunky, the gallery software I was using (Gallery2) did the job nicely – and it even has an accompanying desktop app which lets you upload photos en masse.

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