Dropsafe

So I got into a debate with a bunch of my colleagues about an idea I had – that an internal conference we hold every year would be greatly improved if some, perhaps the majority of the presentations were pre-recorded and posted to a corporate-internal YouTube-alike media server. The conference could still go ahead, be…

Can anyone point me please at a resource that lists all the keyword=value query strings which you can feed into WordPress to drive the search engine? Stuff like (hypothetically): ?author=alecm&year=2006&subjectContains=hamster …or whatnot? muchobliged++

This is the only decent photo I’ve seen taken of me in years… Photo credit Doc Searls. Writeup of the weekend’s events to follow…

Tea & Ginger Nuts Takeaway Chinese: plain boiled rice, stirfried pickled duck, spicy prawns and water-chestnuts. Superb. Hachez Cocoa D’Arriba Mango & Chili Chocolate – very good Hachez Cocoa De Maracaibo – exquisite, the best milk chocolate I’ve had Chili Beef Jerky with a chaser of Hereford Cider Brandy How was yours?

The Perl Song Hitlers Sheffield Utd Suffer Their Downfall Hitler Gets Banned (His Ultimate Downfall) via Adriana

I heard about this the first time round, but this marvelous quote escaped me: The officer asked for identification. The professor asked for his, after which Officer Leonpacher told him he was under arrest and, the professor claims, kicked his legs from under him, pinned him to the ground and confiscated his box of peppermints.…

WordPress is pretty, but fragile, and occasionally the input editor corrupts what you type in unexpected ways…

Presumably it’s still on the statute books.That the NVaLA are no longer anything like power in the land, is a great pleasure to me. On This Day: 1977: Gay paper guilty of blasphemy The Gay News and its editor Denis Lemon have been found guilty of blasphemous libel in the first case of its kind for…

Man held in chef-threat inquiry Police investigating threats against celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein from a Cornish nationalist group have arrested a man. […] A group calling itself The Cornish Liberation Army (CNLA) said in the e-mail Mr Oliver would be a target because he was “another incomer who has caused the inflation…

Where can I get bulk dried catnip in the UK? You know, the easily misconstrued pack of herbage which you leave lying around, and which gets occasionally savaged by the felines? A friend has offered me a used cat-igloo, washed and dried, and my cats will need an incentive to try it out…

Well I just wasted 30 minutes trying to intuit my way around ThinkingRock which claims to be one of the most popular “GTD” (Getting Things Done) applications available. It uses Java and NetBeans, so it ticks all the “worthiness” boxes. After that half-hour, my opinion? Forgive the rant, but: All I want is a fucking…