This now seems pretty ubiquitous on my PC/Laptops since I moved my personal mail from Outlook to TB on my works machine to minimize errors. I have it installed on three systems, two windows and one Mac. I really need one set of filters, possibly most importantly to enforce deletions and filing decisions. Here are…
Read moreBar chart archive widget for wordpress
A friend showed me the blog at http://tatiyants.com/ which has an awesome archive widget. I want one. Fortunately Alex has documented how to build one, in an article called “How to create a bar chart archive widget in wordpress“. This leaves me with how to install a widget, a quick google, takes me to here,…
Read morePlanning Labour’s Digital Manifesto
The NPF’s programme only mentions the digital economy once, and this is to promise more speed, everywhere it can go. There are two internal pressure group style swarms/groups/initiatives.
Read moreRelated Posts Plugin
I have been using the Related Posts plugin by Sovrn Zemanta. At some time, WordPress deprecated this and one of the webservice providers “Zemanta” withdrew/failed or something … this led me to consider how to replace it as I very much like the feature, although given the low readership, I wonder how many others than…
Read moreNew Home IT
Originally written on the death of my first XP system. My problems were compounded when I moved and with the expiry of Windows XP, I need to move my desktop systems on, to Laptops it seems! 😎
Read moreRuggedising the Internet
Mike Masnick writes a little article forecasting the engineers re-writing the single points of failure out of the internet. He entitles his article, Building A More Decentralized Internet: It’s Happening Faster Than People Realize. He cross references to two articles written by himself back in 2010, Operation Payback And Wikileaks Show The Battle Lines Are…
Read moreJob Control
It seems that Mac have begun to decrement cron and recommend the use of launchd for job control. I have found the following links to help me write the job control parameter file. man launchd a manual page on launchctl Mac launchd and launchctl — the OSX alternative to cron a blog by arunxjacob Scheduling Timed…
Read moreFlickr Badge
The web widget has moved to the Flickr Badge site. It looks like this….
Read moreUK Budget 2014 (deprecated)
This was an article about sources; conclusions and polemic are on the linked blog articles, see below/overleaf. The sources were documented in delicious and are now no longer available.
Read moreAnnuities, a note on price theory
While researching my articles on the UK 2014 budget, I wanted to write a quick note on Annuity prices, yields and interest rates, I came across nothing easy to find or understand. There is a companion wiki article on the UK 2014 Budget. This was created in 2014 and amended in 2023, when the notes…
Read moreLog Rotate and *NIX
This has changed since my days at Pyramid. There has been quite a lot of thinking and engineering about dealing with daemon logs. The places to look are via the syslogd, newsyslog project, you can see a the newsyslog man pages and using the keyword “rotate log”. The idea is that logs are rotated, although…
Read moreScripting on the Mac
It’s UNIX, how hard can it be? I want to run some Macports uodate scripts regularly. To me the obvious programming language is bash, but I got excited and decided I want to notify that the script had run, and run OK. There are two schemes, Growl and OSX Notification system. These both have language…
Read moreWordPress and robots.txt
WordPress has a virtual robots.txt file; best not to muck around with the filesystem. There are a bunch of plugins to allow you to edit the robots.txt.
Read moreAdobe installs and updates
I went through a period where I am notified of a need to update an adobe product, usually flash and go through a loop of an install page and the home page; I was unable to update the tools. I finally checked the Ghostery report, and paused the blocking since one of the objects blocked…
Read moreConvoy’s Wharf
I returned to this in March as the Mayor sought comments in the final stage of consultation before agreeing or rejecting outline planning permission. New Cross Labour have published Joan Ruddock’s submission on their web site, here. She is arguing for the cultural planning gain represented by the Sayes Court Garden project and the Build…
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