June 2007

Google tricks; Clickable URLs; Open Source Software; Check links

I’ve just added a bunch of articles to the Learning Centre: Google Search tricks Did you know Google can do more than just search? Work out currency; Calculate; Define words; Quickly search a particular site. Clickable web addresses Do people complain that links in your email messages don’t work? Using angle brackets may fix that. [...]

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I made a difference

About 12 months ago I discovered that, thanks to Kiva, I could make a direct difference to the life of one woman in Kenya: I lent her a small sum of money — it represented a couple of hours of my income. She wanted to expand the range of vegetables she sold in the local [...]

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FullCodePress non-profit selector

On Saturday 18 August 2007, teams from Australia and New Zealand will compete to build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours. No excuses, no extensions, no budget overruns. That’s FullCodePress, where web design meets sport! So, who chooses the lucky non-profit to benefit from a fabulous new website? Well, that would [...]

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Awash in articles: WordPress, Internet, Mac and more

It’s all go around here — I can barely keep up! Today the first of my series of articles for Informit has been published: Web Design Reference Guide > Customizing WordPress: Make a Start: This series explores everything you need to do to customize your WordPress blog. Along the way, we’ll look at plugins, widgets, [...]

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No drinking at the top of the hill

We live near the Mt Victoria lookout. Quite often, late at night, yahooing and general rowdiness can be heard from the top of the hill, and cars regularly do very noisy ‘donuts’ in the couple of wide, flat areas. I’m glad to see this news item: Drinking Curbed in Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria: It’s [...]

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Woman and man versus machine

After 6 years of working on Communitynet Aotearoa I’ve stopped. Today. More or less. It was a contract worth about 10 to 15 hours per week recently, although 6 years ago it started as about 5 hours per week. I approved (or not) notices submitted by community groups, wrote and distributed a monthly newsletter, handled [...]

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