Archive for December, 2005

A fitting end to 2005

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Congratulations to organic farming friends on making the New Year’s Honours – or should that be commiserations?

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Boxing Day Ben

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Boxing Day on Ben Lomond

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Now plugged in to WordPress

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Menu Page Condense plug-in for WordPress released

Posted in Open-source | 6 Comments »

OpenDocument Foundation

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Mixed reactions from the OpenOffice.org community to the OpenDocument Foundation

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It’s the big 5-0 for open-source

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Open-source was fifty years old in August!

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First impressions of WordPress 2.0 RC1

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

WordPress 2.0 RC1 looks a big step forward – can it replace a full content management system?

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Does IT Matter

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

The day job is running a trial of Books24x7, a commercial service offering on-line access to technical books. Unlike Google Books or Amazon’s Search Inside, it offers the text of books as text, rather than scanned pages. Whether this makes it any easier to read or not is a different matter – but I digress. [...]

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