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Running on Tomato

Chris — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:59:04 +0000

At home I have Linksys WRT54GL router which I've had for 4/5 years now. It's always been a dependable box with all the basic functionality I've needed onboard, but recently (mainly as a result of networking discussions at work) I've thought about doing more things which require more control over my internet connection. When talking to a [...] Related posts:

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Netbasic - No. 3 in the Tech Track 100!

Chris — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:32:37 +0000

As anyone who actually reads this blog probably already knows, I work for an internet marketing company called Netbasic as projects manager and web developer. We entered the Tech Track 100 this year and as you can see from their website we're No. 3, which makes us the 3rd fastest growing private technology company in the [...] Related posts:

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JS Popup Script Thing - Good For Thumbnails, etc.

Chris — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:09:47 +0000

Just found this which is quite cool: http://highslide.com/ Wordpress version here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/highslide4wp/ Related posts:Meld Wordpress And Facebook Together With Wordbook Now this is a pretty neat plugin: Wordbook allows you...Advanced Syntax-Hilighting Online Code Editors - A Wordpress IDE? When I write plugins for wordpress I like to do...All of A Twitter Recently I've been playing about with [...] Related posts:

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Google Chrome - Released But Not Polished?

Chris — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:51:37 +0000

Google chrome is a new lightweight browser released by Google, which is meant to be faster, safer, etc. and optimised for web apps such as Google provides (and I use). I judge a browser by it's speed when I'm using it on the train (into and out of work), via my mobile broadband and what I [...] Related posts:

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Books On CEO Succession

Chris — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:07:51 +0000

HR managers in various companies can have a very difficult job when it comes to topics such as CEO Succession. They really need to be informed about new ideas and practices in the corporate industries on an ongoing basis. That said, it is always important to be aware of the changing trends in recruitment and [...] Related posts:

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Chris — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:45:20 +0000

Bit of an odd one this but earlier today I was watching a great TV show about Sculpture, the first part of a 6 part series on it's history, cultural implications and so on. It's a fantastic documentary and the guy presenting it went all around the world looking at sculpture and rounded today's show (about [...] Related posts:

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Dan Neumeister, California’s Top Healthcare Executive

Chris — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:27:03 +0000

Here's a funny thing: I was browsing the web the yesterday and came across this post about a really inspirational Guy, Dan Neumeister, California's Top healthcare executive which just seemed to stick with me. First let me explain who Dan Neumeister actually is. He was the Senior Vice President, as well as Chief Operating Officer [...] Related posts:

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EcoQuest Intl analysis - All Over Wiley Interscince

Chris — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:11:12 +0000

I was flicking across the Wiley Interscience Journals website earlier today and kept seeing EcoQuest Intl analysis mentioned in almost every article I read about bacteria neutralisation. It seems that they produce a lot of high end sterilization equipment for the food production industry and healthcare. This is important as it's surprisingly easy for bacteria [...] Related posts:

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Holy Keyword Loaded Sub-domains Batman!

Chris — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:08:03 +0000

After finding this in a random search on Google for CSV to SQL converters a couple of days ago and dismissing it, I have just done some other queries for MySQL scripts and seen results like this: What the hell is going on? Surely these don't give better SEO do they Google....? They certainly don't help my [...] Related posts:

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How to filter user submitted data easily in PHP?

Chris — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:29:10 +0000

How to filter user submitted data easily in PHP? Posted using ShareThis Firstly, as you can see this is my first post made as a direct result of using the ShareThis bookmarklet, which is pretty neat as it actually worked Secondly and more importantly, I wanted to flag this up on my blog as it's something [...] Related posts:

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Refactor My Code - I Wish I’d Thought of It!

Chris — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:03:00 +0000

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MRemote - The Best, Free, Desktop Manager

Chris — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:01:30 +0000

When you have a number of different servers to administer (yes administer - administrate is not a real word!), all across different platforms, switching between different client programs can get very tiresome very quickly. As a result there are a few programs out there that act as all in one clients for Windows Remote Desktop connections, [...] Related posts:

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PHP5 Universal File Download Class

Chris — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:16:26 +0000

After finding different hosting companies having wildly different policies when it comes to what's enabled and what isn't in PHP, I've built a generic file download class which should work in almost all situations. This is the first version so there are some improvements to be made and if you download it, you'll see where some [...] Related posts:

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Dodgy Wordpress Plugins and Themes

Chris — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:06:52 +0000

Recently I have been doing a LOT of research into various wordpress themes and plugins and as you may expect the code varies from the excellent to the dire, but in most cases each achieves what it is supposed to. That said however I have been seeing an increasing number of dodgy/spammy plugins which would probably [...] Related posts:

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Searching for words that "sounds like…"

Chris — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This article is interesting: http://lamp.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/soundslike.aspx Combining methods to better search for words that sound like other words when searching a MySQL database This kind of idea can be quite handy when combining feeds of data from different sources. For example feed x may tell you the specifications of a product, feed y may tell you the the purchase [...] Related posts:

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Getting Wordpress To Ping Google Blog Search

Chris — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:07:40 +0000

I noticed today that my blog wasn't included in Google blog search, so I set out to find out why. The reason was google didn't know about it, so I added it to my list of update notification services as this blogcarta post explains how to do: http://www.blogcarta.com/2006/10/17/how-to-ping-google-blog-search/ Oddly enough, though I know what pinging is, how [...] Related posts:

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More Laptop Battery Life Stuff

Chris — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:44:53 +0000

I have a Toshiba A200-1V0 Laptop as do a lot of other people in the UK due to it's price vs. features. It's a great little machine, but the supplied battery life leaves something to be desired. On the front of the box when I bought it there was an offer to get a second battery sent [...] Related posts:

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Chris — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:10:14 +0000

When I write plugins for wordpress I like to do it on a test blog in a live environment. Maybe not the best idea, but it's how I like to do it, and it also flags up any weird and wonderful restrictions to the development of the plugin as a result of my hosting company's security [...] Related posts:

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Subject, Object, Verb

Chris — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:08:57 +0000

According to the paper today some experiments were done at Chicago university to see how people describe things without words. This was more in the sense of gesticulating/sign language, so speakers of different languages trying to convey stuff to each other, or if you can't speak even in your native language, how do you get your [...] Related posts:

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Firefox Fail

Chris — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:55:18 +0000

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Personal Papers

Chris — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:20:53 +0000

Not everyone has, or wants to have a device that they can read rss feeds on. A lot of people don't even know what rss feeds are. A lot of people buy newspapers or magazines every day that only contain 20% of content they're actually interested in. So, why not setup a service where people can choose feed [...] Related posts:

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Springwidgets.com

Chris — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:02:17 +0000

I love the idea of springwidgets.com (http://www.springwidgets.com) but everything I'm seeing there takes sooo damn long to load. If only someone would make a faster loading version - quickwidgets.com or something, then bloggers and site owners everywhere could add some really useful and powerful features to their sites easily and with little penalty on the loading [...] Related posts:

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Pot O’ Ideas

Chris — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:00:59 +0000

I have a lot of ideas for personal projects that either get implemented by a big company (or people better placed to carry them out) before I've had time to do anything about it, or wouldn't get actioned commercially by the company I work for due to time, money or the commercialism of these things. So [...] Related posts:

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Change In Spam?

Chris — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:41:19 +0000

I get a few hundred spam mails a day and though I cast a cursory eye over the subjects I never read them, choosing to junk pretty much everything there. I don't know if it's just me, but there seems to be a notable change in the type of mails I am getting. 6 months or [...] Related posts:

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File-system mp3 Organisation - Is It Really That Hard?

Chris — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:32:04 +0000

Like most people I know I have a lot of mp3's and every person likes to sort theirs differently. My preferred method of sorting my mp3's is to do it on the file system going artist -> album -> track, but I know some who do crazy stuff like genre -> sub-genre -> artist -> album [...] Related posts:

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All of A Twitter

Chris — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:06:24 +0000

Recently I've been playing about with Twitter and so have some of the other guys at work. Twitter's great but but along with the blogs, facebook, myspace, MSN and whatever else there'd be sooo many places I'd have to update my status. In reality, the only place I even half regularly keep my status updated is in my MSN [...] Related posts:

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Chris — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:47:14 +0000

It always amazes me how little secure and reliable communication methods are implemented by companies who really should know better, and email is one of the worst. In my day to day job I deal with a lot of different companies of varying sizes who work within the financial services industry and it amazes me how [...] Related posts:

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Wordpress 2.5 Released!

Chris — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:32:05 +0000

Version 2.5 of wordpress has been released and we have a nice new admin interface at last, not to mention the plugin auto-updater (something I was planning to write myself sometime soon) and a number of other nice features! Personally I think the update is a great, but I can't help wondering if, as other wordpress users upgrade, [...] Related posts:

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Chris — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:24:30 +0000

I work on all sorts of little personal projects in my spare time, most of which don't ever make it to a release (mainly due to time issues), and recently I've been finding more and more instances where I could do with some kind of object relational mapper (ORM) library to assist me. In a very [...] Related posts:

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Where Did All The Disk Space Go??

Chris — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:56:27 +0000

When I converted my laptop to a dual boot system, I did so by shrinking the Vista system partition (C:\) to half it's size to allow me to setup Linux in the free space. That's fine I thought, as I only use one or two programs on Vista anyway so there'd be no big problems with [...] Related posts:

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