Off again
By Huw Leslie | May 26, 2007
I’m going up North again tomorrow; I won’t have internet access for the first few days, but I should by Wednesday.
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Refreshed
By Huw Leslie | May 24, 2007
There comes a time in every blog’s life when it needs to be redesigned. For this blog, that meant using a new template. WordPress made it easy, and I now have a very Web 2.0-looking design of my own.
To celebrate the relaunch, below is a random Latin music track from Ioda Promonet.
Download “Un beso” (mp3)
from “God’s Project”
by Aventura
Premium Latin Music
Buy at iTunes Music Store
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Tumblr is awesome
By Huw Leslie | April 28, 2007
I’m loving Tumblr - its a really simple blog platform that you can plugin your various feeds to, creating a nice combination of a lifestream and a personal blog. It is a study in usability - truly outstanding. It has just enough features to create a brilliant product, but not too many to make the UI silly. Someone should buy them now, if only to get the developers behind it.
You can follow my Tumblr blog/lifestream here. I’m thinking about whether to switch from WordPress - I’m really not sure.
Review on GizBuzz coming up!
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Teamwork?
By Huw Leslie | April 25, 2007
A geek’s definition of teamwork that I just read on a Crunchboard listing: “* Works well alone and with a team, including experience with a change control system such as SVN or CVS”. I’m sure they don’t mean it to sound like they believe that a good team player is a person who can use a version control system, but it might have helped if they had put the two requirements as separate listings!
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Measuring not grouching
By Huw Leslie | April 23, 2007
I’ve been moaning about Dreamhost’s uptime recently, threatening to switch. The problem is that no-one else that I’ve ever heard of seems to have anything that’s quite right, apart from Media Temple, which is double the price.
So, in an effort to be able to stay with DH, I’m measuring uptime this month using Pingdom’s free trial. At the moment, after about 48hrs monitoring, we’re on 100%, which is a pleasant surprise. Let’s see if they’ve got themselves sorted out.
PS: Sorry N. - analogy in next post!
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Alan Johnston
By Huw Leslie | April 19, 2007
The BBC is asking bloggers to put a banner on their sidebar as part of its campaign to get Alan Johnston, the Gaza correspondent who was kidnapped over a month ago, released. I’ve done that (see for instructions), and I’ve also signed the petition.
I’d encourage everyone else to do the same. Whilst it doesn’t actually do anything to get him released directly, I think it is important that as many people as possible point out that it is not acceptable to kidnap a person doing his best to report the story of a region as accurately as possible. We need to show that this matters, and that we are not going to let the matter drop.
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Escape
By Huw Leslie | April 8, 2007
I’m announcing, Peter-style, that I’m definitely offline until next Monday. Like him, I’ve written some posts which will be published next week, so GizBuzz won’t be completely without content.
I quite enjoy having absolutely no access to the internet - on some levels I don’t give a monkeys about any of the top stories on TechMeme. That’s a good thing. I’m singing evensong in Truro Cathedral, which should be quite nice.
Out.
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Hosting
By Huw Leslie | April 8, 2007
I’m not happy with Dreamhost at all. There was at least an hour’s downtime (quite possibly more) across all my sites (and all DH’s sites), affecting not only personal sites like this one, but the whole of the Oratos Network, and Klaxis.
My Dreamhost account expires in August, and I’ve decided not to renew it unless there’s literally 99% uptime before then. At the moment I’m looking at getting Media Temple’s GS product, but that’s unfortunately twice the price of DH. On the other hand, there’s no point paying for hosting if you’re site isn’t up a lot of the time.
Any other suggestions?
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Blogger’s block
By Huw Leslie | March 25, 2007
I’ve had ‘bloggers blog’ for the past couple of weeks - a complete lack of posting on Gizbuzz was the consequence. I’ve now got over it - well, sort of.
I’ve lined up about 4 drafts in the Gizbuzz system, which have the first paragraph written. So, over the course of next week, all I need to do is finish them. I have a feeling I will.
So - to get over future blocks, I will half write posts.
(by the way, I’m procrastinating again - I have a coursework essay to write, and it is midnight).
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GMail Spam
By Huw Leslie | March 24, 2007
The spam filter in Gmail used to be excellent - I never, ever got spam in my inbox, despite sticking my email address in text all over the internet. In the past few weeks, though, I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting much more. Is anyone else seeing this? In other gmail irritations, today I was trying to move over to an account on Google Apps for your Domain, and wanted to transfer all the email from my @gmail account to the @waah account. Gmail wouldn’t let the @waah account retrieve email from the @gmail account, which really annoyed me. Any way to get around this?
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