2011/12/30 10:08
We had started getting an increasing number of nuisance calls, mainly recordings being played to us several times a day.So on the 30th of November, I signed up for a free service to avoid nuisance calls, the Telephone Preference Service.The website wrote that it could take up to 28 days to become effective, but we've hardly had any such calls...
2011/07/02 22:47
I've been on Google+ for a couple of days now, so I guess it's time for a first review. So far I only have three contacts there, so it's quite limited how much social networking I've actually done there, so my opinion of some of the features might change as I get more experience. Anyway, here are my initial comments:The...
2012/01/12 22:42
For a long time, I’ve been looking for a way to find postings that are filed under two or more categories in WordPress. It’s very easy to click on any of the categories in the column on the far left to find all blog postings within this category, but how do you find all blog postings about linguistics in Danish, or the blog postings I’ve written in English about Scottish politics?
I assumed there was no easy way to do it. I read the documentation I could find, I searched through lots of of WordPress plugins, but to no avail.
Today I then suddenly got the idea to see whether they had implemented it anyway, so I decided to try the different URLs that would make sense to me as a programmer.
My first instinct was to try a ‘+’ sign, and much to my surprise it actually worked!
For instance, category/fooddrink+es gives you food and drink in Spanish, linguistics+da gives you linguistics in Danish, and politics+en+scotland gives you Scottish politics in English.
You even seem to be able to get a feed, such as category/kids+linguistics/feed for the RSS feed for kids & linguistics.
The only problem seems to be that the generated heading is wrong – I’ll need to have a look at that to see whether it’s something I can fix.
2011/11/10 15:54
Google+ has now finally been opened up to those of us using Google Apps-hosted email accounts (e.g., my private email address is on the bibulus.org domain, but it's Gmail internally).However, all is still not well.First of all, there's a big problem with duplicate accounts: I now have two Google+ accounts, but I really just want one; I'm being offered Google+ for my work account, too, which again I'd prefer to be included in my normal Google+ account. I feel Google...
2011/09/05 17:36
I've used Gmail for Google Apps for both my private bibulus.org email and my corporate complexli.com one for a couple of years now.I used to run them in separate tabs in Chrome, which worked really well without any interference between them.However, last Thursday I received an email from Google announcing that they "recently transitioned [my] organization to the new infrastructure...
2011/06/24 23:08
I read this in The Telegraph the other day:On the rare occasions I have done my supermarket shop via computer, the milk and meat that arrived were already on their sell-by date. I felt cheated. One of the many thrills...
2011/04/30 23:37
Phyllis and I were recently discussing whether we should switch from T-Mobile to another mobile phone provider given that their signal is fairly weak here in our house.Once we realised that we didn't know of any provider with better coverage,...
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