December 08, 2004
I’ve been getting slowly frustrated with MovableType (as you do). First off, there’s Comment Spam. Horrible. Last weekend I ended up with over 1000 comments which I had to delete manually. I shouldn’t have to do that. I also shouldn’t have to impose registering restrictions for the people who want to comment to the site.
But that’s not the main thing.
Update: I’ve made the plunge, more to follow once i’ve fathomed out Expression Engine a little more. Thanks to Simon at Collylogic for his advice.
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December 08, 2004
It’s enough to make anyone go dizzy.
Tonight I finally got all my old email from Outlook on a pc, and my old mail on Entourage on the Mac over to One application - Thunderbird. It was a bit of a nightmare.
First off I had to export my Outlook folder’s into one Outlook Express to get it’s head round (this is on the PC), then export from OE on the PC to a format which could be read by an application called MailNavigator, this then exported all the mail as an mbox format which could be dropped in the library folder of Thunderbird on the Mac. Entourage was pretty simple in comparison, all I had to do was drag the folders from Entourage on to the desktop then move them into the library folder. Was it all worth it? Well, at least I know have all the email in one place, whereas before it was in two places on two different machines and two different platforms.
December 02, 2004
Last year we spent a fortune on generally crappy cards. So this year I thought i’d do them myself and after a very reasonable quote from a printer I realised we’d actually be saving ourselves quite a bit of cash. Following on from Andy Budd’s idea, it’d be nice to see any designery Christmas Cards you may be producing. Post the url to the image on your server in the comments.
December 01, 2004
After spending the morning, and most of the afternoon, taking photographs for one of the sites i’m working at work I came to the conclusion that I like Winter, pre Christmas that is. Winter after Christmas is rubbish.
It’s not often I get out with a camera, which is a shame because I should do it a lot more. Driving round this morning was great until I realised I must be missing so much being in a car, so I abandoned the car and set out on foot. I was right, I was missing a lot. Three hours and over two hundred shots later I was back in front of my new iMac sorting through the shots. I’d forgotten how long it takes to edit a shoot - ages! Still haven’t finished!
November 24, 2004
Now here’s an idea. (yes, probably an old one as things go but it’s one that i’ve just come across.) Podcasting is basically like RSS and Blogging, but audio instead of text and you download mp3’s to your iPod for consumption at your leisure.
The very cool thing about this is the blogging aspect (and of course the commercial implications, especially for broadcasters.) What we have here is another perfect vehicle for homemade content. In fact anyone can now produce an Audio blog in the form of an mp3 and have it available for download, all you need is an iPod (or similar device) and some software. You choose your feeds, just like an RSS application, which are stored on your iPod.
There was an interesting article in The Times about his on the 6th November.
November 22, 2004
A little late with this one, but if anyone wants a Gmail account, I have six invites to give away.
November 22, 2004
I’ve never been so badly spammed as the past three days. thankfully MTBlacklist caught most of them - over 2000 in three days! Nightmare. So, if you see the odd comment by Gay Hentai Porn, you can safely say one has escaped me.
November 16, 2004
Apple opens it’s new store tomorrow Sat 20th Nov on Regent Street in the heart of London. This is one of the downside’s of not living in London, you can’t just pop down to see what it’s all about. The store looks good and there’s some cool opening day offers (such as the Lucky Bag).
Update: See title. Oops.
Update 19th November: Silly people camping outside the shop!
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