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How crunched is your credit?

April 25, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Cantankerism, Social

It’s not terribly heartening is it? After months of doom and gloom for every news outlet you care to sample about the credit crunch and impending economic doom, you spot this sign as you shamble towards work one morning…

Google Pollution and Homemade Pizza Dough

February 11, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Half-baked

Panasonic SD-206 Automatic BreadmakerTrying to find instruction manuals online is a pain. I blame Google. Or more specifically, the SEOers who are working the search engine algorithms for the online retailers.

Basic Badge Marketing Mistakes

February 8, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Cantankerism, Marketing

Admittedly, it’s taken me an absolute age to sort out my personal blog. I’ve had one previously, but ran out of time to keep it updated. Fortunately, blogging, social media and community are at the heart of what Chinwag is trying to do, so I get to dabble and it’s relevant to the day job sans guilt. Marvellous.

When CMSes Attack

February 4, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Cantankerism

The Huffington PostThis screen grab is from The Huffington Post. I think it illustrates clearly why Content Management Systems (CMS) can sometimes be a dangerous thing.

Swearing. Big & Clever. Sometimes.

February 4, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Miscellany

Sometimes, just sometimes, an expletive is called for.

Andrew Olmsted: A Blogger’s Farewell

January 9, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Social

Every so often something inspirational drops into my virtual lap, which helps lift the cynicism generated by some of the more robust egos floating round the industry. In this case it’s the sad, poignant and inspirational final post from Major Andrew Olmsted, who was killed in Irag last week.

Identity Taunt Backfires for Clarkson

January 7, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Cantankerism

Clarkson Stung After Bank Prank

Nasty Drupal and IE Error – Operation Aborted

January 6, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Miscellany

Ooo, this is a fiddly little so-and-so. Finished putting together all the blocks for the site, all ready to get on with the work that I’m supposed to be doing only to discover that Internet Explorer is throwing an absolutely fit. Tried loading the page in a bunch of different IE versions to discover the same thing.

Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site.

Operation aborted.

Trying to navigate to another page results in another error, something like:

Technorati, Eat Me!

January 6, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Miscellany

Now, it appears that Technorati doesn’t quite have the weight that it used to, but it can still be a handy service.

Unfortuately it looks like it’s not playing nicely with Drupal, which I’m using on the site here, so I have to go through the pain of putting a link to my Technorati profile for it’s spiders to hoover up.

Obligatory First Post

January 6, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Miscellany

On any blog, there has to be a first post. This is it.

I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to use this blog/website/thingemy for yet, but I’m hoping that, by actually writing something it’ll become clear. For Chinwag-related musings, I’ll also be writing my blog on Chinwag, and no doubt contributing, time allowing, to the Chinwag Jobs blog.

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toodlepip is Sam Michel‘s personal blog covering digital, social, business, technology, society, psychology, startups & scaleups. Sometimes BBQ, food stuff, geekery and other miscellany.

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