Category Archives: Blog

Shame on me

By admin | Published: July 2, 2009
I have had a blog at Alistair.com for around 12 years now.  At the beginning it was a simple ftp down > edit html > ftp up.  Now it’s WordPress and though I am nowhere near as prolific as my friend Derek, I use this site extensively for many other projects that are not public. As [...]
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Mobile Blogging

By Alistair | Published: November 27, 2008
While blogging from your mobile device is nothing new, it’s still nice to be able to do it. iPhone users can get the most excellent WordPress app, but the rest of us can still get close with the wPhone plugin. The author says he will not continue with releases, but with the number of Blackberry [...]
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Updates

By Alistair | Published: May 7, 2008
I need to update this site a lot more than I do. Seriously. Here are some stats: 12: The number of drafts that are in my WordPress queue. I am having a tough time editing them for publication 7: The number of days per week I have more than 4 hours of my time scheduled 5: The number [...]
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Hacking my WordPress Template

By Alistair | Published: June 22, 2007
Currently, the WordPress theme I use is a modified version of Regulus by Ben Gillbanks. It’s a nice theme with a good set of options that let me customize a fair bit. I have been fooling around with some other things I have found here and there. Today, I added two features to my [...]
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Blog with Flock

By Alistair | Published: March 6, 2007
Flock is a browser that is integrated with various services like del.icio.us, flickr and a number of blogging applications like Blogger, WordPress and others.  The concept is quite simple: surf the net as you usually do, but with a browser that supports blogging, tagging, news reading and photo uploads without having to navigate to the [...]
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