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Garfield minus Garfield

I was shown a great web-comic by a friend today, called Garfield minus Garfield. The writer, Travors, a self-proclaimed “Irish musician, artist, nerd and businessman” has simply taken old garfield cartoons and removed the eponymous feline creating, again in the author’s own words: “an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation [...]

The Timer blogged by The Times

Happy to report that The Timer has been blogged by Comment Central on The Times website. The link will probably only be up for 24 hrs or so, but I’ll take all the traffic I can get! www.timesonline.typepad.com/comment This may well provide me with the impetus I need to release v2.0 of The Timer, with [...]

Googlewhack!

Browsing around the web late at night, alternating between stories on The Onion and mexican food recipes, I finally found my first genuine Googlewhack: berlin chichimungas Let’s see how long this googlewhack can live for.

SQL jokes are funny?

I wasn’t always a computer geek, you know. My first degree was in English Lit. I played sports at school and university (badly, but still). I have friends and even a girlfriend. These facts notwithstanding, I came across this cartoon yesterday and laughed out loud. If you read it and do the same thing then [...]

Tracking? We got Tracking

Fewer than 36 hrs have passed since the inception of this blog, and now I’m proud to announce that everyone’s favourite international search monopoly, Google, is tracking the traffic to this site.

Moving a WordPress Blog

What a palaver! Having installed WordPress on my new hosting server I was shocked to find that moving the blog from one file to another (eg. from ../wordpress/ to ../ ) was a real pain in the arse. This was my own fault of course, I should have installed the blog in the correct folder [...]

My first post!

Hi – here is a test post for my gleaming new blog, installed from the comfort of my bed on a Saturday morning.