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My name is David, and I am a WordPress support professional and writer.
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My Story
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Speaking
I speak on a wide range of topics, from WordPress developer, customer success to remote working.
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What is your #1 tip for businesses going digital?
Get involved with the WordPress community and commit to the Five for the Future initiative to give back to WordPress what it gives to you as a business. And it doesn’t have to mean doing anything with code – just being able to write documentation, translate a language or edit a video is all it takes to take part. And, you can learn so much…
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Mole and eMon – the forgotten support software at Boots
Back in the early/mid-1990s I’d been working on the IT (then IS) Help Desk at Boots the Chemist, supporting store’s POS (Point of Sale) systems. After a few years, my existing development chops were recognised and I was moved away to a more technical support team, where I would be helping to create support tools, as well as make fixed and minor enhancements to…
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Should we all be using online wish lists for gifting?
[It is estimated] that $35 billion is being thrown away, around the world, in the form of poorly chosen Christmas gifts BBC’s 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy – Santa Claus, December 17th 2018 For a number of years now, I’ve asked people buying me birthday and Christmas gifts to use my online wish list and I’ve converted a lot of them to doing…
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Cleaning a PS4 Pro: Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited
Back in 2021 I detailed how I cleaned out the PS4 Pro that I’d bought uses and, seemingly, had nothing more than a damp cloth rubbed over it. 14 months later, in 2023, I had to do it again. It seems that replacing thermal paste and pads only has a limited life. It’s now 3 years later and, recently, I haven’t been playing it…
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ITT Memories
When I first got my Commodore 64 in the early 1980s, I was given a succession of cheap, second hand TVs to attach it to, before being bought a more reasonable sized Hitachi TV… One of the earlier ones that doesn’t leave my memory is the ITT, which is pictured at the top of this post. The one in the picture is the 26″…
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