I have just installed the “jQuery Archive List Widget”. This offers collapsable archive lists. It’s so easy. You configure it once installed by the widget management page. It’s now available on my home page’s 2nd page.
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Migrating to wordpress.com
Can I migrate my blogs to wordpress.com and save money? Here are my notes?
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Mastodon
aka mastodon.social, wikipedia says, “Mastodon is a federated social network, with similar features to Twitter, but administrated as a decentralized federation of servers running open source software.” Can we build a “club” using this? Here are my notes which focused on my failed attempts in building an instance. …
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WordPress & LDAP
Can we do better? I have looked at membership management and recorded it on this article, but I consider that if we want other services that a common single user list would be best and given my history it has to be LDAP.
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Real world storgae
I need to move and store some stuff. Here are my notes.
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On D’Hondt
For the European Parliament election in Great Britain and Greater London Authority City wide list, a form of PR is used. Parties register lists of candidates, and voters vote for their preferred party. The counting is done using a method called the Dhondt method. This note describes the counting method and shows how an excel spreadsheet…
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Home Printing
I have just bought myself a new printer scanner, an HP Envy 4527. Here are my notes ….
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Corbyn on Digital
In the 2016, Labour Leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn issued a digital manifesto, it is currently on the web here … and I have uploaded it to this site here… .
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A file selector for tcl/tk
A little project in TCL/TK and wish. I need a file system browser/selector. Here are my notes.
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Web Page Automation
I had a need to return to this; here are my notes, I start with some products. Also the related pages widget has been tuned.
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Social Sites, private control
I spent the weekend at Momentum’s Digital Hub. I did some work on source code control. One of the questions it raised in my mind is around collaboration. The tools chosen are those that you’d expect from a bunch of techies and developers. There was a split about using facebook, and I reconsidered how one…
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Using a package manager & repo
I need to distribute a package, I need it to have ACLs in front of it. I thought I’d look at the Linux Repo technology again. Here are my notes.
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Systemd (ptui)
Originally written in 2017. I said, “It seems systemd can’t be avoided. I am annoyed at having to relearn stuff for a problem not worth solving”. I had another look in 2025, added some links as this time I wanted to move some job commands from cron to systemd i.e. run the programs/scripts periodically. Here…
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YANF WordPress Instance
I have reason to set up another wordpress instance. Here are my notes.
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Ansible
A new, to me, configuration management toolset called ansible. My notes! I’ll post more when I know more.
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