Posts marked with the tag “Internet

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The Long and Short of It

Tuesday, 15th December 2009 • Geek stuff, InternetNo comments

A summary of how I feel about sharing and distributing content in the internet, how one should integrate and use RSS feeds and summaries, and why my perfect solution may not be your perfect solution.


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Categorization bug in WordPress

Thursday, 26th November 2009 • InternetNo comments

I’ve been using WordPress for years and in the main, it’s a fantastic piece of collaborative software. However, the fact that the standalone version which is installed on one’s own [...]


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Survey of internet access speeds

Friday, 13th November 2009 • InternetNo comments

I order to better cover the needs of my visitors, I’m carrying out a simple survey of how you visit the site.


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Why opening new browser windows for external links is pointless

Thursday, 12th November 2009 • Geek stuff, Internet, TechniqueNo comments

Don’t you just hate it when you’ve been using the internet for a little while and you have a mass of browser windows to battle with? Where the hell did that website go, that you were looking at earlier? Both of these annoyances are entirely unnecessary, and this article explains why.


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SprainTV

Thursday, 15th October 2009 • Geek stuff, Internet, VideoNo comments

Manuel Reinhard (also known through his personal website and Twitter stream as “sprain”) has recently launched a regular video podcast in review of the week’s happenings in the Swiss internet scene.


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Ten years of push-button publishing

Thursday, 27th August 2009 • In the Media, Internet, WorkNo comments

On 23rd August 2009, the ten year anniversary of a web service called Blogger passed with barely a blip; only a small handful of news reports show up at Google’s news aggregating service and the world at large has paid little notice to the milestone.


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Cross-domain Javascript calls

Wednesday, 12th August 2009 • Geek stuff, Internet1 comment

A technical article covering the use of Javascript functions and files across multiple web domains.


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Jungfrau Zeitung secures its newspaper business

Friday, 31st July 2009 • In the Media, InternetNo comments

The newest version of the newspaper, to which I still subscribe online despite no longer working or living in the catchment area, produced by a small handful of people and covering purely local news instead of falling to the temptation of reporting news from more distant regions, is at least a match for – if not better than – most national newspapers.


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Here today, here tomorrow

Wednesday, 1st July 2009 • Internet1 comment

With an audience comes responsibility. Use it wisely and carefully.


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Customer disservice from Ryanair

Wednesday, 25th February 2009 • InternetNo comments

Abusive feedback from Ryanair in response to a blog post, which detailed a potential flaw in the online booking system, provokes a rapid increase in negative publicity for the airline.


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Facebook: The Empire Steps Back

Friday, 20th February 2009 • Internet, PhotographyNo comments

At the beginning of February, community website Facebook took advantage of the ubiquitous ability to change, modify, add, or delete portions of Terms of Use at any time without further notice, to amend a clause relating to user content.


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Sharing photos online

Wednesday, 21st January 2009 • Internet, PhotographyNo comments

Just news on a change of how I upload and share photographs online. I have decided that as a part of the re-design of my website for 2009, I am [...]


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