Category Archives: Journal

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Feb 12

Two Website Outages; One Important, One Trivial

Posted on 1st February 2012 by Gary

On Tuesday 24th. January 2012 both vicchi.org and garygale.com went down. Then again, last night, both sites went down again. The first of these outages was entirely intentional; like many other sites on the web from the huge to the … Continue reading →

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Jan 12

Transatlantic Telephone Call (On A Plane)

Posted on 23rd January 2012 by Gary

Late last year I wrote, with childish and geekish joy, about onboard wifi on Virgin America. This year, on my first trip of the year to the US, I discovered another item which elicited the same reaction. There’s some things … Continue reading →

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Dec 11

WP Biographia Hits v2.1.1 In Time For Christmas

Posted on 20th December 2011 by Gary

WP Biographia’s always had the ability to suppress the display of the plugin’s Biography Box for all users; unfortunately that’s been accomplished by simply not installing the plugin. But judging from requests on the WordPress forums as well as emails … Continue reading →

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Dec 11

Revisiting The Online Me (On A Plane)

Posted on 8th December 2011 by Gary

Although I fly a lot these days, I don’t fly on internal routes in the US that much and so flying Virgin America, which has onboard wifi, is still something that brings out the childish geek in me. In homage … Continue reading →

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Nov 11

Smart Phone. Clumsy User

Posted on 23rd November 2011 by Gary

I have learnt four things over the past year or so. One. The iPhone 3′s glass was scratch resistant but not dropping-onto-a-stone-floor resistant. Two. I am clumsy. Three. The iPhone 4′s glass was scratch resistant but not dropping-onto-a-pavement resistant. Four. … Continue reading →

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