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New host & email update
I moved to a new hosting provider yesterday as the contract with my old one had run out and they were ludicrously expensive for the service and bandwidth supplied. My new host – Baxter Media – came highly recommended by friends, and Dale there made the porting process as smooth as possible. There’s a few…
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Has Twitter changed online video?
The random thought for today is about online video. It’s been around for ages, obviously, but I’ve never been a fan. I can count the number of times I’ve visited YouTube’s homepage, rather than just following a link, on one hand, and have always been deeply skeptical of friends who go off to set up…
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Oh it is lovely, but…
So I went ahead and got me an iPhone. And I’m just childish enough to want to test out the blogging software for it. Pretty good actually, even if I am still having a few problems with the keyboard. You can’t tell, because the auto correct is doing a fine job, although it gets confused…
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Good time to be a freelance?
According to DWPub it is. They’re the company that serves up several gazillion press releases a day tailored by subject matter to an enormous database of journalists – kind of like Press Association but without the editorial middle man. It’s surveyed commissioning editors and reckons that almost one in five of them say between 50-75%…
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Apparently, living overseas boosts creativity
Lovely night last night at Ross Atherton’s (editor of PC Gamer) leaving party. He’s off to do exciting things in Paris. As it was also the first time I’d met up with Bath people since getting back from Zambia, obviously there were lots of questions about how it all went. Mostly the evening was spent…
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Pics are us
Slowly getting the hang of all this PHP and WordPress stuff. Quiet pleased I’ve finally got the random flickr picture widget to work in the centre column, all properly sized and all. Now thinking a bigger centre column would allow for a more interesting pic… Ironically, I use Plus.net as my host simply because the…
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Take 2…
New version of WordPress, not the one my hosting provider delivers. Updates to look and stuff shortly…
