The issue of using a portal-style home page in WordPress has come up a couple of times recently. I’ve tried to help some people with the code and settings. I’ve learnt a fair bit in the process that I thought was worth sharing. WordPress can use a file called home.php as a homepage, which supercedes […]
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1 uni update, 7 linkies and a birthday
Uni I apologise for being a bit absent from my blog. The main reason is uni. I think this year is going to be a killer! My first major assignment was due on Wednesday. It doesn’t go towards my mark, but acts as a guide for improvement and forced me to read extensively on my […]
Google’s new G’day MATE
Check it out! Google has brought out a very cool new product called Google G’day. It uses MATE technology to take the data that the Google bots have spent the last however-many years trawling and some funky, fuzzy prediction parameters to tell you what the internet is going to look like tomorrow. Perhaps some of […]
Top GIMP tutorial sites
After some discussion at Creative Curio I was starting to think that building a site similar to PSDTuts for GIMP tutorials would be cool. I haven’t seen much in the way of GIMP tutorial sites that I really like; except for Meet the GIMP, but video tutorials are different in my mind. Before I go […]
What are they thinking?!
There’s a few thing that have ticked me off recently that just make me wonder what people are thinking! News.com.au The Today Show filmed in the Google Sydney office this week. Naturally we wanted to watch it since there might be some shots of hubby working and playing ping-pong. The segment won’t aired on Friday, […]
NearlyFreeSpeech: excellent web hosting
I feel the need for a little positive rant about my web host NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I’ve been using them since 2006 and their service has been excellent. You only pay for what you use, at low rates too. Their support service is quick and friendly. They support a wide range of software. They don’t make many […]
