My Stuff & More

Speaking out, gripes and other weird stuff.

Value Your Permanent Links (Web Page Addresses)

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I recently changed the way that WordPress (which runs this blog) creates page names of all the pages that it generates.

The new page naming convention will be better for me in the long term as when I now update a Post and especially its date, only the year is used in the name.

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Some Flooding Needs Attention

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

We seem to have a bit of an issue with the rain.

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To Her Majesty (Queen Elizabeth II) and Your Services…

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

…Thank you for your cheque today.

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Above articles Posted after Transformation

Below articles Posted before Transformation

Display Phorum 5.2 Recent Messages on Custom PHP Page.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

I spent ages looking around for a simple solution to show a few recent messages posted by users on message boards powered by Phorum.

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Be on Top of Things: But Not All Of The Time!

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I wrote some management code for The InterPost which helped to send email reminders to users when Posts where expiring and to manage the Research page which showed what people were most recently looking for on search engines and then coming to The InterPost.

I found out that the code recently slowed done the whole site and user experience.

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Free PDF Creator

Monday, May 19th, 2008

I have had the need to create PDF’s for many years but only ever knew of Adobe’s Set of Software. I tried many versions of Adobe’s software and always found them a bit heavy on my computer (slowed it down) and on the mind (there seemed to be more features than I needed).

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You Control Your Own Business, Not Your Suppliers.

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

A new client of mine sent me an email with respect to making a payment for some work that I did for them.

My client told me that they had difficulty in convincing their accountant that they had to pay for my work.

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