Category Archives: Geek

Hosting an Octopress Blog on Amazon S3

Posted on 9/9/2011 by Ian

Octopress is a framework for blogging based on the static site generator jekyll. In short jekyll takes markdown and turns it into blog style html ready to be served straight away with Apache whilst Octopress dresses it up nicely with … Continue reading →

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Amazon Associates WordPress Wishlist Plugin is No More

Posted on 28/11/2010 by Ian

I think my post title says it all really. I’ve just discovered that amazon has deprecated use of its ListLookup method since October 15th. I had used this in order to retrieve details of my amazon wishlist and display neatly … Continue reading →

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Installing MPlayer on Snow Leopard

Posted on 15/6/2010 by Ian

Here’s a heads up for anyone installing MPlayer on Snow Leopard. I’ve been playing a fair amount with tools recently and inevitably ending up running round in circles in installing, compiling, setting flags etc. Here’s a quick one liner param … Continue reading →

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Amazon Associates WordPress Plugin v0.2

Posted on 25/10/2009 by Ian

I’ve just updated my amazon associates plugin to take into account the recent signiture changes which amazon have introduced for their webservices api. This now also means you’ll have to enter your amazon secret access key in the plugin configuration … Continue reading →

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Discovering Google

Posted on 25/10/2009 by Ian

I’ve recently read a post over on the guardians technology site which gave a whistle-stop history of the internet as it turns 40. I thought I’d share here my own experiences of growing up alongside the web, more for my … Continue reading →

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Stephen Fry and the Ascent of “Micro Blogging”

Posted on 6/2/2009 by Ian

Twitter is all over the news at the moment. For the uninitiated, it allows you to list short updates of what you are doing at any time. BBC News seemed to have an all-out assault at the end of January … Continue reading →

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What do I have to contribute?

Posted on 29/1/2009 by Ian

It has struck me over the last couple of days and it’s a reflection of my attitude to being interested in geeky things in general. I’m an elitist. When I started my blog back in 2003, I loved the fact … Continue reading →

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Fairy Tale Design Challenge

Posted on 13/1/2009 by Ian

It seems that all I do these days is talk about what’s going on over at Fair & Bare and if you’re here because you prefer the more geeky side to me I apologise I’ve not been indulging you recently. … Continue reading →

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Cardiff Web Meetup #3

Posted on 31/5/2008 by Ian

Just a quick note to remind people that this coming week is the third Cardiff meetup for web types in wales. It’s in 10 Feet Tall on Church St on Wednesday 4th June from 6.30pm. Featured speakers include Matthew Cashmore … Continue reading →

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Amazon Associates WordPress Wishlist Plugin

Posted on 2/4/2008 by Ian

One of the things that’s bugged me for a while whilst having a website is that at certain times of the year when people might actually like to buy me a gift they’re unable to find my wishlist. This is … Continue reading →

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