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WordCamp, WordCamp, WordCamp

9 July, 2008 – 10:44 am

WordCamp UK 2008 WordCamp UK is on Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th of July, 2008 and the organisers have made it “over the hump” after some indecision about the venue. They have ended up with a very appropriate venue in Birmingham, enough generous sponsors to secure the event financially and a decent programme [...]

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“Star Soup” – Quartz Composer screen saver for Mac OS X

30 May, 2008 – 6:38 pm

I’ve been sitting on this one for a few years. Mind you, for most of that time I thought I had lost it amongst my many backups and migrations from machine to machine. This is a Quartz Composer… um… composition that I put together back when Quartz Composer was only new. Today I fired it up under [...]

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Alternative uses for your WordPress Mug

17 April, 2008 – 6:16 pm

If you’re like me and don’t drink coffee or tea very much, or even if you just don’t drink coffee and tea very much, then you must be wondering how you can justify buying a fantastic WordPress mug for your home or office. Well, today I’m here to help you lighten your wallet with my [...]

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bbPress 0.9 has landed

3 April, 2008 – 3:45 pm

Today mdawaffe hit the big red button and released bbPress 0.9. bbPress 0.9 is a considerable improvement over the previous release with lots of bug fixes and some handy new stuff that should make installation and integration with WordPress a lot easier.

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Behold my eleventh hour contribution to WordPress 2.5!

12 March, 2008 – 11:11 am

Behold my eleventh hour contribution to WordPress 2.5! With which I bend time using sheer willpower and win the love of the people. To the people of the mountainous nation of Nepal, I salute you! I will not let your blogging be incorrectly time-stamped by fifteen minutes. As much as the hounds of assimilation (in [...]

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Fast switching your /etc/hosts file in Mac OS X

6 March, 2008 – 11:08 am

UPDATE: This method has been extended and superseded, find out about the “new improved” method here. Web developers often have reason to fake a host name’s associated IP address by editing their /etc/hosts file. The peculiarities of the development environment we use here at WordPress.com mean I find myself switching back and forth between two [...]

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MacBook Air, the next Mac Cube?

16 January, 2008 – 6:07 am

So I followed the various feeds of the MacWorld 2008 keynote to find out what’s new and count the “booms” (there was only one I believe), but mostly to find out about the new Apple laptop. I’m looking to replace my partners aging G4 iBook so I was particularly interested. But I’m afraid I’m not [...]

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Why you shouldn’t hire me

11 January, 2008 – 5:17 pm

Last year I had the chance to go to San Francisco to attend the Apple WWDC. I won’t talk about the conference itself, except to say that one thing struck me about it that I still think about. In a conference with about 5,000 attendees, there must have been a maximum of maybe 250 women [...]

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I can’t imagine 2 million of anything

18 December, 2007 – 9:20 pm

Today WordPress.com passed 2 million blogs, which is pretty amazing. I’ve only been working with Automattic for about a month and a half now – so I can’t take any credit – but the rest of the team deserve a pat on the back… *pat*

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Garrett – Road to Kyoto starts Monday

24 November, 2007 – 6:25 pm

As I write this the polls in Australia’s federal election have closed on the east coast. I spent the morning handing out how to vote information for the Greens and my feet are killing me. While working my booth I had a chance to meet Peter Garrett, Labor’s shadow environment minister and the local member. [...]

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