hackbash

Right.
Regular visitors will notice that Hackbash has been in varying states of disrepair since Monday. It’s my fault - sorry and all - but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Anyway, we’re now situated at new web hosts, who have answered and solved all my emails for help. They’re dirt-cheap and I’m very grateful, hence the […]

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Recent experience suggests that I’ve lost my IT mojo: that silicon and I are no longer on speaking terms. And yet, I persist in fooling around with forces more powerful than I can imagine.
First it was the broadband upgrade, then a tedious episode over Christmas that started out as an attempt to breathe new life […]

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We weren’t quite sure how to take mrsnakeface’s comment on my terms and conditions post (precious content?), but it made me ask myself a couple of questions:
1) Is this an angry website?
That’s not the intention. Perhaps Charlie and I just have a lot of pent-up rage? “Hackbash” was coined with a gathering of journalists in […]

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I recently wrote this article for the Press Gazette; some basic SEO tips for journalists. It’s nice to think that I might be developing a reputation for knowing what I’m talking about, but in fact the deputy editor found me through this blog.
I find that hugely encouraging. It’s not often as a journalist that you […]

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OK, so you might have noticed we’ve moved.
This pretty much started out as me thinking out loud, so we ended up with an address based on my user name, a blog name that was the first thing to come into my head (and which sounded more pretentious with each repetition), and the first pretty picture […]

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