ponderings and work-related miscellany from sam michel
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Been a lot of geekery on this blog recently, apologies, triviality and cantankerism to return soon, honest. Plugins like SSH-SFTP-Updater-Support provide an easy way to use SSH for plugin, theme and core updates but requires… [read more]
Comment spam is a thing of the past. Or so I thought. Then, one Friday night an alert popped up saying one of our web servers was down. Whilst hunting the problem, I discovered that it might still… [read more]
For me, Facebook is gaining ground on Twitter for surfacing interesting reading. Wish I could remember who posted the somewhat ancient (2003, kids) Guardian Weekend piece about the pioneers of British game developers. The computer games industry is… [read more]
OK, so a heavy duty bit of geekery here. I’ve written this up largely so that I’ve got a future reference for it, but also because I imagine there’ll be other people looking for the… [read more]
It always struck me as somewhat of a spectacular own goal that when Google launched Google Plus (G+) in late June 2011, that it wasn’t available for the 4 million businesses coughing up real money for Google… [read more]
RIP Steve Jobs. I saw the news in the early hours of yesterday morning (UK time), whilst I was sitting cross-legged on the bedroom floor trying to force conference badges through my (non-Apple) printer without much… [read more]
If, like me, you read the recent announcement that Google Analytics just added social tracking to their tool, you’ll probably be thinking, “Nice, I’d like to get me some of that social media analytics”. If you’… [read more]
A couple of years back I started using a tool called ClearContext, which prioritised the 3-400 daily emails I receive based on their priority. Some special algorithmic magic looked at how often I read, how quickly I… [read more]
Having taken the plunge in January and moving wholesale from Outlook to Gmail, I’ve become hooked. Once or twice, I’ve even got close to reaching Inbox Zero. Close, but no cigar, at least not for long.… [read more]
This evening’s challenge: find a set of free icons which will link to core social media sites. As a minimum, the set needs to include icons for * RSS feed * Twitter * Facebook and it’d be nice to… [read more]
If the prospect of putting a line through the final item on a lengthy to do list is close to nirvana, then you’re probably trying to deal with inbox anxiety, that constant battle to keep your email… [read more]
I’m no camera maestro, but I do like to take a few snaps when I’m out and about. Despite the potential glamourous locations of recent trips to Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, there was… [read more]
