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Lazy Scammers

November 11, 2009

The scammers are getting lazy in their attempts to extract key bits of information from what’s known as the 419 scam.

Read what the lazy scammer wrote

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Custom Template change from Thesis Theme 1.5.1 to 1.6

November 9, 2009

If you’ve updated from1.5.1 to 1.6, and now all of your Custom Templates pages are showing two lots of title and content (or other strangeness), then you may be wondering what you did wrong. The answer is, you didn’t.

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Get Shutter Reloaded and Twivatar Working Together

August 6, 2009
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I use Shutter Reloaded as my Lightbox-esque WordPress plugin of choice for enlarging images. To work though, it requires a link to an image. The very useful Twivatar application for pulling live Twitter avatars however, uses a non-image link. Here’s how I got them to work together.

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Guest Post: Getting the f**k on with it

June 25, 2009
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When asked to write a guest blog post for the venerable Mr Jones my initial thought was to write something witty and succinct. However upon realisation that being neither concise nor humorous are my greatest talents the following ramblings seem appropriate.
I’m going to write about accomplishment, progress, recovery. However you deem to express it for me they all boil down to the same basic principle. That principle to me is (if you’ll excuse my French) getting the f**k on with it.

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Get a Free Postcard – Update

June 18, 2009
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Back in March 2009, I blogged how someone in the US was offering to send people free postcards. I’d signed up, but was waiting to see if anything came of it. Turns out, something did.

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