UK Parliament Embedding Terms of Use

I chose to embed a parliamentary video cast in one of my blog articles and this is the agreement required before it can be embedded. I can’t find a link, otherwise I’d do so. This was created in Dec 2013.

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ACER V5

I bought an ACER V5, which  from Curry’s/PC World. Here are my notes! …

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Mavericks

a.k.a. MacOS X.9 I said in my article on upgrading MacOS that this was easy to do, it was, but the resultant performance rendered it unusable. This article discusses what I did to resolve this. Concluding that another 4Gb of RAM is all it needs.

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Pop Up Meerkats

For various reasons I wanted to make a pop-up on hover using a picture. I have implemented a pop up meerkat in the blog. This broke at some point and I returned to the problem in 2019 and found a new guide, and again in 2020 where I fixed some theme/wordpress bugs. This is now…

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Automating posts to Google+

I once wanted to post my blog stream to google+, but it seems overly difficult to do. Even harder now that Google have shit-canned it. This is now marked as deprecated, but overleaf/below are my notes when this seemed a good idea,

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Buying a Flat 2013

I am buying a flat in London. Some things have changed. There is a property shortage and so seller’s behaviour is less desperate, although I was buying during the property boom of the early ’80s when a failed offer wasn’t a problem but some things have changed. Most annoyingly a number of vendors wish to…

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Code Tag

A note on dealing with the code tag. It shows how it looks today and posses the alternatives of a blockquote class and a code rule. It was written while using the zbench theme.

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Upgrading MacOS X

And on to 10.9 There was a rumour that it was best to stop at 10.8, Mountain Lion but by the time I got round to it htis wasn’t an option. The Appstore only permitted an upgrade to Mavericks; is this a cat?  The Appstore upgrade works fine. And now onto Macports which is a…

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WordPress update interruptus

Error message : Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute An error message caused by an interrupted update There is a codex thread here and instructions to delete the .maintenance file here.

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Circular Icons for Objectdock

I use objectdock free on one of my XP systems and have just decided to install NWN2 complete. This meant I needed an icon for program launcher bar; actually it didn’t because the icon the GOG version ships with is fine. In order to prove this to myself I used google to look for some…

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Copying from XP to Wn

I have been busy trying to copy files from a old XP machine to W8. The XP machine is connected by cable, the W8 machine by wifi. I am using a BT Homehub 2. Would it work, would it heck!

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System V init scripts

I really like Ubuntu’s system V initialisation scripts and features. This is now based on the LSB standard. The Debian Wiki documents how to make an LSB init script here….

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