I baked a site
My most successful website, Moneyterms used to run on WordPress. I have found it linked to as an example of WordPress running something other than a blog. However things changed. (more…)
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Vodafone’s loss that wasn’t
According to most of the press Vodafone made a £15bn loss in the 2005/6 financial year. The largest loss ever made by a British company. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that the company made a real profit but an accounting loss. (more…)
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Volunteers? No.
I have noticed that the media make serious factual mistakes when covering any topic about which I have any real knowledge. This applies even to supposedly quality media. I can only assume that what I read about topics/countries/issues that I have no particular knowledge is equally wrong. (more…)
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Apps designed for smart people
f you read the same blogs I do, you may recognise where I got the title of this post from. An email from Mike Vanier that was published on Paul Graham’s website describes the difference between computer languages designed for smart programmers and “the massesâ€.
It recently struck me that a similar divide applies to users as well as programmers, and that programs exist to cater to both smart users and the others. (more…)
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WordPress plugin: Slug Trimmer
I have got sick of URLs that end in really long post slugs that look-something-like-this-and-are-far-too-long so I wrote a little plugin that shortens post slugs more intelligently than simply truncating them.
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New site
I have decided that I should blog about investment on a separate site.
The new site is The Strategy Blog. I intend to put a fair amount of work into it – have a lot of ideas that simply do not fit into any of my other sites and it seems a shame to waste them.
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How to tell if you are a Microsoft fanatic
Although Linux and Mac users have reputations for fanaticism, I have noticed that Windows users are more irrationally loyal. Are you one of them? (more…)
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Why I use open source
This blog post got me thinking about the reasons I most often hear for using open source software are the freedom it gives users, its usually high quality, and the lack of vendor lock-in.
I have one more reason: transparency. (more…)
WordPress theme: Red Drop
Red Drop is a red (surprisingly!) WordPress theme with drop down menus. (more…)
Bad modelling
A flawed analysis of trends in the number of blogs, and the increase in the number of spam blogs, has lead people to think that the number of non-spam blogs is falling. In fact the growth trends remain strong. (more…)
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