Thank God for Norton 360! A sobering reminder and question – how do you back up your stuff?


About 11 days ago my main Windows laptop froze and it turned out the hard drive had developed a fault. Although of course not life and death it was nonetheless a traumatic experience even just thinking about the implications let alone dealing with them. Now most of my work I store and access from an [...]

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Just installed the simple-tags plugin


I just installed the simple tags plugin so this is a test to see how it works. It should help find things more easily on this blog/site by auto tagging but more importantly helping me tag and categorise more consistently. Tweet

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BlogDesk


This is just a test post using This is a free Windows based RPC tool for WordPress and other blogs. So far it looks like a really useful and fast way of posting including uploading images complete with alt tags and links etc Tweet

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Using WordPress with an iPod Touch (or iPhone)


WordPress App The plugins and apps for using WordPress with the iPod Touch (and iPhone) seem really great. The first thing I tried was the free WordPress app which seems to work really well including the option to include and upload photos.  The screenshot below shows the write screen. There are limited options but anything [...]

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Taking screenshots on iPhone and iPod Touch


I was looking for a way to capture screenshots on my iPod touch and started searching online for a solution. I was assuming that I needed to download an application of some sort but then I found a video tutorial on technorati showing how easy it is using the latest iPod Touch software. Basically it’s [...]

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My first post on my new site/blog


so this is just a test post, a test of the categories I’ve just added and a test of uploading an image via my iPod Touch. The image was a quick pic I took a couple of years ago of Lake Louise on a tour of the Canadia Rockies. Tweet

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