Category Archives: Geeky

Apr
08
2013

Leaving WordPress

by Skippy

I have been thinking about moving Skippy.org.uk and my 365 away from WordPress, as WordPress is a bit overpowered for myself as a lone user, and causes my server to run hard when hit with a lot of users. I am poking my 365 at the moment with a view to making it more automatic. I am looking [...]

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Mar
27
2013

Dealing with TrackBack Spam

by Skippy

  Skippy.org.uk is quite an old blog, and while my 365 Blog is not as old; one of the things that is getting old is TrackBack Spam, Both Blogs are hosted on the same WordPress MultiUser / WordPress Networks install at JustVigilantes.co.uk. WordPress makes it easy to turn off TrackBacks on all new articles in the [...]

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Mar
26
2013

Harry Beck Style Canal Map

by Skippy

The first diagrammatic map of London’s rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931.[3] Beck was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only [...]

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Feb
19
2013

The Saga of Artisteer 4 for Mac

by Skippy

After my Previous post about Artesteer 4 for mac, there has been two sets of movement, that of the people on the support forum, and the glacial lack of movement of the Official Artisteer team. Artisteer are still listing as Mac Version 4 as in active development: Do you offer Artisteer for the Mac OS [...]

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Feb
12
2013

Hacky Birtday

by Skippy

On Saturday 23rd FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology [*NOT* Federation Against Copyright Theft]) are having their buildings 10th Birthday party; Join FACT in celebrating 10 years since the FACT building opened on Wood Street in Liverpool with a family fun day full of party games, birthday cake and arty activities throughout the building. [...]

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Jan
21
2013

The moving of Projects

by Philip McGaw

I have recently rethought about how I want to lay out my on-line presence. Since getting a job where I can do awesome things, and get paid for them, I am going to start putting more time and effort into keeping PhilipMcGaw.com updated. I have already uploaded and plan to keep up-to-date the write up of FACTs “Art [...]

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Dec
28
2012

What’s inside – A kindle keyboard 3G

by Skippy

My parents had a kindle keyboard that they managed to break. As it was no longer working Tas and I got let loose on dismantling it.

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Dec
14
2012

Go Skippy Insurance

by Skippy

I have been at skippy.org.uk for a while now, after posting about my eCar insurance problems, I started seeing more traffic for search terms such as: Go Skippy Insurance Skippy Insurance Skippy car insurance and even just: Go Skippy It seems that for Go Skippy Insurance I come up second in google to GoSkippy, who [...]

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