After a recent trip of Legoland, Windsor, I’ve had to turn to their customer service to resolve an issue. But it’s all got stuck in a loop where they direct me to a third party and third party direct me back to them. Here’s what happened… my daughter went on a ride called “Driving School”, […]
Author archives: David Artiss
All is normal. It’s only bradycardia.
As an on-going quest to discover more about myself, particularly physical and mental health, I’m going to talk about bradycardia. Bradycardia is having a heart rate below 60 beats per minute (bpm). As I write this, my heart rate is at 56 bpm. My resting heart rate over the last week was 50 bpm. Now, […]
This could be Rotterdam… the 2019 VIP Grand Meetup
It’s that time ago when the whole of WordPress VIP have their Grand Meetup. This year, we’re in Rotterdam. We stayed at the nhow hotel, which is rather splendid, architecture wise, using the hotel facilities for our meetings, workshops, etc.
I have an odd feeling of Déjà… rêvé?
Since I was young I, occasionnaly, have an odd thing happen to me. Something will play out in front of me and I’ll immediately get a strange sensation – a sort of “spidey sense” tingling – and an immediate realisation that I’ve seen this exact scene in a dream (despite not having remembered dreaming about […]
Thomas Cook: my own experience
Thomas Cook have gone into administration and from own, admittedly short, experience, it really doesn’t surprise me. Of course, I have a huge sympathies for all those people who have lost their jobs, have lost money that they’ve paid or are, right now, stranded abroad. But after using them just the once I decided to […]
The Amazon Assistant offer that isn’t working
Just over a week ago, I recieve an offer via Amazon Assistant. For those who don’t use it, Amazon Assistant is a browser plug-in that provides information on offers, orders and can make it easy to add items to your Amazon Wish List. The offer was simple – go into Amazon Assistant at least once […]
Visit to a weird planet
Sorting through a cupboard recently, I stumbled across an iPod Touch that I haven’t seen for many years. It’s a 4th Generation iPod Touch, which were made between 2010-2012. Looking at the photos on it, the first photo is dated 2012, so I’m guessing I got it around then. What’s interesting, though, is turning it […]
How not to do menus
Whilst new rules are sorting out many aspects of WordPress development that causes headaches for users (e.g. standardised admin messaging), how plugins (and, in some cases, themes) allocate menus in WP Admin are not currently covered. As a result, some developers (and it’s note-worthy that most of those that fall into this category are making […]
Death of an icon
My WordPress plugins have been in desperate need of a lick-of-paint when it comes to the images used on them for a while – and by “images”, I mean those used in the WordPress repository. There are actually 2 you can provide – an avatar and a banner image. I’ll come to the banner in […]
I really don’t understand airport security
It’s become an on-going joke with my work colleagues that I have issues with security at airports. And no one airport has been as bad as Manchester. I’m just back from a family holiday in Germany and we flew out from Manchester and, let’s say, they really excelled themselves this time.