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Server move

January 17th 2009

So, hopefully, if you are reading this, I’ve successfully moves servers.  A few things might be broken maybe, I’ll work out what if you leave me a comment (assuming that works) Possibly Related Posts: 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess redirects The miniblog Funny how the internet digs up old memories

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6 words

December 7th 2008

Awhile ago I wrote and posted 6 word story as a silly project.  This week two things happened… Firstly I launched my second silly project – www.piratejuice.co.uk, which helps you train the creative/emotional side of your brain.  Just say the colour the word is written in, not the name of the colour on screen. Secondly - [...]

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The problems of High Priority

August 7th 2008

I used to work in a team which took all of it’s work from tickets raised in a queuing system. It was a simple way for people around the world to raise requests to us and for the team to manage their work load. Each ticket has an area of work (so the right people [...]

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.htaccess redirects

January 31st 2008

Looking though the logs for this place tonight I noticed how many people are going to old URLs which haven’t been active for months, years in some cases. 500 people a month were accessing www.coldclimate.co.uk/blog, which I retired about a year ago. Another 500 people were munching down on 2 of my homebrewed feeds www.coldclimate.co.uk/1.xml [...]

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The miniblog

December 7th 2007

A little while ago I started running a mini-blog.  The idea was to stop me posting single liners and make me concentrate on writing bigger and better through through posts (yeah, right), and also to let me continue to have somewhere to throw things for reading later (something I used to use the blog for [...]

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Funny how the internet digs up old memories

October 15th 2007

I received a comment on a post nearly four years old, and it stirred up such strong feelings its increadible. At the time I wrote it I could have been sick I was so upset, my heart torn out, and now I read it and realise I’ve not made some the mistakes again, so maybe [...]

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Ten pieces of advice for old media

September 6th 2007

I loved this article called “Ten pieces of advice for old media” which interestingly enough was on badscience.net. I agree with every one of them, even the total ban on Flash on sites. It also makes a very good point about miniblogs and repeating content. Numerous times I’ve basically just re-written somebodies article to make [...]

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Ditching Word makes you more productive and allows you to produce better documents

September 4th 2007

There are times when I have ideas, and I discharge them onto the page, without really thinking them through and making them readable. One such case is where just lately I splurged rant about open standards for documents. I’ve just finished reading this brilliant article by Steve Poole about why he stopped using Word (on [...]

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Festival

July 26th 2007

Off to Secret Garden Party – no bloggage for a week. I think. Possibly Related Posts: Server move 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess redirects The miniblog

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About me

June 18th 2007

Little bit of time to kill, and was reading About Tom Reynolds, noticing how many things we seem to agree on. As a result I’m lifting it wholesale, and rewording it for me. >I’ve lived in London my whole life, mainly in the North and East. # I briefly lived in London and didn’t like [...]

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NYC here we come

May 3rd 2007

Right – now at the end of this month I and theGirl will be heading to New York for nearly two weeks. I’m hoping to make use of my new found interweb project TrustedPlaces (have I told you to go join, review and enjoy? No? Then go! Now! Review! Enjoy! More!). The plan is that [...]

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Radio Silence

March 28th 2007

Broken home intenet may result in patchy transmissions on coldclimate.co.uk for a while.  Too busy to fix it at present. Possibly Related Posts: Server move 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess redirects The miniblog

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Robert Mugabe is a fucking nutter

March 16th 2007

Yes, it’s so obvious I can’t make it any clearer, the man is a raving psychopath.  Total nut job.  And ugly too.  Can somebody not shoot him and get it over with please before he totally distroys the country.  Possibly Related Posts: Server move 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess redirects The miniblog

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Who feeds me? RSS isn’t friendly!

March 11th 2007

I’ve seen a huge increase in the amount of traffic which gets identified as “rss feeder” rather than Ie, firefox etc.  Lovely as it is to be read, I wonder, who are you?  Why not leave me a comment and say hi? Possibly Related Posts: Server move 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess [...]

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The dangers of htaccess, wordpress, and rss feeds (or How To DOS attack your own site for shame and humiliation)

February 20th 2007

On friday night I decided to do a bit of a clean up, and removed some old code which was knocking about from the previous incarnation of coldclimate.  In doing so I set myself up for a big fall, and caused a few headaches (and I lot of ear ache for my very wonderful hosts [...]

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Site un-buggered

February 19th 2007

OK, so I managed to DOS attack my own site.  I’ll write up a bit about it later when I’m not tired and tireder, but basically a combination of htaccess, deleting files and some jiggery pokery, I managed to create an infinate loop within my own site.  *head V’s desk moment* Possibly Related Posts: Getting [...]

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Site buggered

February 18th 2007

Well, it looks like something has hidiously wrong with the site and it was eatting all the bandwidth for everybody.  In fact, I got barred, because I ate 76GB in a couple of days. Possibly it is now fixed.  Maybe. Possibly Related Posts: Server move 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess redirects The [...]

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3 column joy

February 8th 2007

Everybody eants 3 eqal height columns, with three different coloured backgrounds, because it is the halcyon of web layouts.  A List Apart shows you the way forward.  Old coldclimate.co.uk used to use three columns, and it was a pain and rendered buggily on some browsers, but aparently this will work better. Possibly Related Posts: Getting [...]

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Masonic Clothing?

February 4th 2007

Obviously there must be some sort of uniform.  Odd. Possibly Related Posts: Server move 6 words The problems of High Priority .htaccess redirects The miniblog

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Custom wordpress importer from Blogger

January 24th 2007

I’ve spent most of the day coding a custom importer from blogger to WordPress. I’ve ended up hacking it together by exporting blogger with an easily parsable structure – no comments, +++’s at the start of each artice and |||’s between items.  Monthly archiving set on, and a full republish. custom php script to read [...]

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