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Custom size del.icio.us Widgetbox widget for Ning (and others)
So I made a custom size del.icio.us Widgetbox widget for my Ning profiles, but Widgetbox won’t put it in their gallery because the links don’t open in a new window. I added the code they provide to make it do this but it appears not to work. I think because the links are being created…
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Adding widgets on my Ning profile page
So I’m a member of a few Ning sites and I really like it. In trying to edit my profile, I have managed to import my regular blog here into the standard Ning RSS widget. But you only get one Ning RSS widget. So for a work-related Ning community like ELESIG, I wanted to show…
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Google accounts annoyance
This is annoying. I’m trying to sort out some of my Google groups, which are all registered to my Yahoo email address. But I also have a Gmail account which I want to combine with my Yahoo Google account. Google will let me add alternative email addresses to my Yahoo Google account, but it won’t…
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Plaxo loses for gender diversity
Plaxo just put me off by forcing me to choose my gender: The only options were male or female. C’mon Plaxo, get with the program! This is the modern day and you should know better than to only give us these limiting binary options with which to define ourselves (and must you force us to…
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Zend Form – custom decorators
So I’m learning PHP and Zend Framework and MVC stuff. And I just figured out how to do a custom decorator on Zend_Form to change the way the form is written to HTML. The default puts each element label and input box into dd and dl tags. I just wanted to put each element in…
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Sausages: Freestyle LDN art show in York
I’m going to be exhibiting six of my illustrations at Freestyle LDN art show in York on 26th April 2008. Here’s my latest illustration of a man eating a sausage. It’s from a tinned sausage advert I saw in Prague last summer, and the image was apparently an original 1917 illustration. I’ve tweaked it a…
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Facebook privacy with friend lists
You can now basically do anything you’d ever want with the new privacy controls within Facebook. So, if you want to make a list of ex-boyfriends and stop them seeing certain information about you, you can! Or, if you make a list of hotties, you can make a special photo album just for them! Lists…
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Individual life feed aggregators and friend feed aggregators: Ported and duplicated content
Lately I have noticed that with more and more people getting used to RSS, and more services allowing you to send content in and out of them, content is flowing in so many different directions and things haven’t settled into any kind of default situation. For example – I use Twitterfeed to send updates to…
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My PHP for beginners notes
Disclaimer – there are likely to be mistakes in this, so please point them out! Here are my notes from my PHP for beginners course, which was excellent, and was run by Highlander. I know it’s better to use the PHP manual but it helps me to write these out so feel free to ignore…
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To-do list
I have about ten fifteen things I want to write about asap on this blog, and it’s getting out of hand, so I’ve decided to list them all before I forget one. Also in the list are other web-related things I need to do. 1. I went to Barcamp Brighton 2 this weekend and there…