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January 6th 2008
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Moving servers

Just a quick note to say that I am moving servers. I've had to restore from a backup a couple of months old for various reasons - some posts have not been copied over, but Google has cached them so I will reinstate them eventually.
September 11th 2007
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Apologies…

I foolishly hoped that the automated wordpress upgrade plugin would work - it hasn't; it failed badly. Although the site now appears ok from the outside - thanks mainly due to jumping into FTP and doing things manually - basically the entire backend of the blog is now hosed...just managing to ...
April 10th 2007
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Full service has been resumed (almost!)

Just a quick note to say sorry to anyone trying to access the page in the last few days and not being able to see anything ... except maybe a semi-broken install of Wordpress! I was halfway through upgrading to the latest version of WordPress (which incidentally I was fairly surprised ...
March 27th 2007
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HTTP Compression: mdibb.co.uk- now with even less!

I finally found the option to enable GZip compression in WordPress, so you might be finding that the pages are a bit quicker to load now. If you're stumbling across this page through a search engine and want to know how to enable compression in WordPress, you can ...

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May 2nd 2008
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Safari annoys - again!

At work at the moment I'm testing the appearance of the site we are working on with Safari on Windows, with the current version we're using being 3.1.1.  We're also working pretty closely with XML and their schemas as part of the web development process. Happily working through my day as ...
April 11th 2008
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How I’d change Firefox 3

I've been running the betas for Firefox 3 for a little while now and - despite some problems with loosing my bookmarks - its been pretty good.  But there are some annoyances that have made themselves apparent with the current latest betas that I'd really want to change. Bring back the ...
March 22nd 2008
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Firefox 3 & setting CSS pixel values quirk

I was just doing some updates to one of my sites to fix some dynamic javascript problems that I'd discovered with the past couple of Firefox 3 betas.   A page I'd designed back in 2006 had a moving DIV that changed position as a result of a post back from ...
March 6th 2008
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Horror of Horrors … I lost my bookmarks!

... and my saved passwords and all my cookies and all my extensions!  You have to expect this kind of thing when you're trying out the beta versions of Firefox I suppose :)  Some of those bookmarks were ones I had all the way back from whilst I was at ...
February 24th 2008
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Picture Perfect - free & copyleft photos

Photos are a great way to get inspiration for making a site’s design, or indeed including the images in your design itself of course! Here are 5 of my favourite sites that have royalty free Creative Commons, Public Domain, copyleft etc licensed images for you to use: YotoPhoto.com YotoPhoto is probably ...

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