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Husband, Father, coffee addict, Scifi and Electronica fan, UNIX and Mac user and in my day job I'm Director of the Places Registry for Nokia.-
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- Steve Krause on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Love the Plugin Gary! Using it at my site –...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: A quick question on plugins for author images vs. avatars. I think...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Hi Rory, Looks like you’re using the TwentyEleven theme; this...
- Rory on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: hi Gary, one further question … how can i get rid of the...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Hi Rory, The contact details need to be added to your user profile;...
Recent Trackbackage
- John’s Weblog on The Non Golden Rules of Geo: Gary Gale has reproduced the original blog entry here. Categories: Semantic...
- edparsons.com on A smartphone without location is just not smart !: Gary at www.vicchi.org and Peter at geothought.blogspot.com offer a more nuanced...
- Gary's Bloggage -- Topsy.com on Tweets that mention Adding Windows Phone 7 Support To WordPress...: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gary Gale, buybestultd,...
- Gary's Bloggage -- Topsy.com on Tweets that mention Putting The Tube On The Grid; A Geeked Out...: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gary Gale, Karen Leech. Karen...
- de.straba.us on WhereCamp EU 2011 – The Geo Unconference For Europe: Gale, con il post “Ich Bin Geograph” – WhereCamp EU Is Coming To...
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This is my personal blog not a corporate one; see the whole disclaimer here.Taggage
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- Snowing. Definitely Snowing. http://t.co/dd4sS1vX about 5 hours ago from Instagram
- It's #uksnow time again. A light dusting in Teddington but it's still coming down. about 8 hours ago from TweetDeck
- Oh no! Empty! http://t.co/FZL2j6Te 12:35:14 PM February 02, 2012 from Instagram
- New Bloggage: Two Website Outages; One Important, One Trivial - http://t.co/tM69K0uZ 05:41:27 AM February 01, 2012 from web
- @chillly 5+ WordPress blogs, email on same number of domains, PHP, MySQL, shell access, FTP access, Apache. Nothing too special. 12:14:26 PM January 28, 2012 from web in reply to chillly
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Tag Archives: posterous
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Mar 10
Mar 10
Posterous; Paused. Possibly Permanently?
I’ve never run or hosted my own search engine. I’ve run and hosted web servers, mail servers, proxy servers and caching servers (I’m even contemplating running my own URL shortener), but never a search engine. There was a time when … Continue reading
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Feb 10
Feb 10
A Posterous Wish List
I’ve been using Posterous for a while now, a quick trawl back through the archives shows the first post I wrote via the service was in August 2009, and I’ve been using it ever since. It’s fiendishly simple and works like this … Continue reading
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Dec 09
Dec 09
2009 In Review Part 1: Gadgets
As the end of 2009 and of the decade of the noughties approaches rapidly, I thought it worthwhile to look back over the previous 12 months and give credit where credit is due or overdue. So let’s start with gadgets. … Continue reading
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Sep 09
Sep 09
Deliciousness: themes gained, avatars lost, accents found, London and the end of the world, scrobbling and Streetview
Look at all of this stuff that fell down the back of the internet and got lodged in my Delicious bookmarks … Posterous recently gained themes and Twitter lost the background and avatar settings for lots of accounts, mine included. Need to write München, Côte or … Continue reading
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Tagged accents, avatars, deliciousness, last.fm, london, mac, posterous, scrobbling, spotify, streetview, twitter
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Sep 09
Sep 09
You Don’t Always Get What You Pay For, But Sometimes You Get It For Free
Here in the UK we’re used to bad or non-existent customer service, so much so that it’s virtually ingrained into our genes. We’re well aware of the oft used expression that you get what you pay for except that you … Continue reading
