After a year’s break from podcasting at Acecast I have decided to revive the site and my half-hour shows of free and legal music. The tracklisting has been ready for months and it shows. One of the bands on the show, Headless, have split (ouch). Hopefully we’ll hear [...]

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Although I have never read Nobelist Naipul, I am with him on Jane Austen,

I thought halfway through the book, ‘Here am I, a grown man reading about this terrible vapid woman and her so-called love life.’

In a nice piece of symmetric marketing over the weekend Naipul is interviewed in The Sunday Times

“After nearly 170 years, [...]

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Siouxsie is newly divorced, fifty and with her first solo-album Mantaray soon out. She does not think much of technology though,

“YouTube,” spits the high priestess of punk, “technology – I hate it.”

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People doing their own thing – that’s punk.

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This is just for testing display of miniposts without a link in the header of the post from WordPress.

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Best of Google Calendar addons
Calendar help
Google Mashup Editor
Mashup Editor Blog
Mashing It Up With Google Mashup Editor
Integrate calendar with Joomla
Calendar eventfeed using Feedburner
Calendar Wikipedia entry
WoogleCal — WordPress plugin
Sync iPod with Google Calendar
Rock your calendar in 18 ways

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According to The Times it is,

legal to record all calls without telling the person you speak to, provided that it is for your own use. But if you intend to share the call with a third party – for use as evidence in a small claims court, for instance – the failure to explain that [...]

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Quite a long interview with Gibson, whose latest novel Spook Country is set in the present. Cut-out quotes,

I have become convinced that it is silly to try to imagine futures these days.

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Well, as time has gone along, it has become more apparent to me that people don’t sit down in parliament and say, “What this [...]

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Sandbox theme competion winners (Aug 2007)
10 fresh, elegant and clean ones from Smashing Magazine (May 2007)
21 more from Smashing Magazine (Jun 2007)
another 83 from Smashing (Feb 2007)
A list from TechRoam (Nov 2006)
The best minimalist WordPress themes (plaintxt.org, Jun 2006)

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How Wordpress works, convert static html to a WordPress template. Good introduction if you are migrating from Blosxom
Dissecting WordPress permalinks
The top five ways of keeping your WordPress valid
Wimpy player has WordPress support
Spotback rating plugin
John Chow’s 10 best plugins
Blog Joint top plugins

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I just did a search to see how many runners there were down at Cannon Street for last week’s UK Open. I haven’t found information for the first event, but there were only 29 players for the second event, 12 for the third event and 15 for the fourth.

I guess there will be a few [...]

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The above test link should go to Acecast, not to the permalink on Halvorsen.org. This is for testing use of a-tags in the title headline using WordPress themes (test on the front page of the blog), as I sometimes might just want to link to an external piece with no comments or content, just the [...]

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There seems to be no out-of the box solution for moving a site with several levels of subcategories from Blosxom to WordPress and keeping the subcategories intact. Neither Jason Clark’s, nor hohndel.org’s suggestions worked for me without a lot of work. I’ve had no luck with the WordPress wiki or the standard ways of importing [...]

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