wake up and smell the copy
Posted in blog on Apr 22nd, 2013
Since 2007 we’ve gone from being a two-man blog, to a one-man blog, and most recently a sadly neglected blog. At the same time Charlie has moved on to better things at Neo, while I struck out on my own a couple of years back. I’m glad to report that we’re still great friends, and [...]
We got hacked. Now we’re fixed.
From this month, I’ve switched to a four-day week at iCrossing. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while: I’ve struggled to stop freelance taking over my weekends and, frankly, have started to get a bit shit at meeting deadlines. The other part of it is that I enjoy freelance and I don’t like [...]
Posted in blog, freelance, journalism, work, writing on Oct 12th, 2008
We’ve been doing a nice line in lazy blogging lately. My excuse is I’ve been swamped with freelance at the same time as work went crazy. I was trying to work tonight, but (sorry Dave) it’s just not happening. A couple of weeks back I wrote a post about the state of the economy, but [...]
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.6.2 – think everything’s fine but please let me know if you spot anything broken. Also added plugin that can email you when someone adds a comment after yours – hope it’s useful.
I’ve just noticed that Hackbash is one and a bit, having had its birthday on 3 August. The year’s gone quickly – far too quickly, and a lot’s changed for me in that time. I wasn’t sure why we started Hackbash, except that it might be a useful dumping ground for the discussions Charlie and [...]
There are probably two maths teachers out there somewhere, and perhaps an A-Level examiner, who can attest to a past lack of interest in statistics on my part. But only 95.7% of statistics are bad. The good ones, I am reminded, live in Google Analytics and tell you fascinating things about how few people find [...]
Posted in blog, technology on Aug 20th, 2008
Oops. A week or so ago I finally remembered to delete the original Hackbash, hosted on WordPress.com Are you sure you want to permanently delete this blog? it asked. Yes, I duly confirmed. I’ve just discovered that exporting the blog to our self-hosted WordPress install at the beginning of January didn’t bring 2007′s image uploads [...]
Posted in blog, digression on Jul 29th, 2008
So here’s me always dribbling on about everyone else’s shit copy, and I’ve just spotted this on our 404 page. Anyone know how to edit WordPress themes?
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