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  • WordPress README files and Markdown

    For those who’ve not come across , it’s a way of using simple keyboard characters in a text file to indicate formatting. For example **this would be bold**. WordPress uses Markdown for the README files that accompanies each plugin – this same file is used to display the plugin details on the WordPress site. Therefore,…

  • T-Mobile and Orange owners can now share networks!

    The merger of Orange and T-Mobile was some time ago and the intention is to continue to run them as seperate entities. None-the-less, there are advantages to the merger of some areas, and they’ve now announced that as of yesterday, users of either of their networks can now freely roam onto the other. What does…

  • Sharing with Pogoplug

    My earlier post about bargain prices for Pogoplug, reminded me that I hadn’t shared about, erm, sharing on Pogoplug. Last week I went bowling with work. I was rubbish. But I did remember to take a camera – a cheap digital camera mind you. Most of the pictures that night were taken by a colleague,…

  • No Power to Nintendo Wii!

    Tonight I noticed there was no power light at all on my Wii – normally, even if off, the light on the front is red. Now, there was a brief power cut on Monday night and I wonder if it happened then. Anyway, I unplugged it (which involved moving the TV out and pulling out…

  • Xmarks is closing

    For quite a few years now I’ve happily used Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) as my de-facto bookmarks synchroniser. However, they’ve now announced that within the next 90 days, Xmarks will be closing down. It’s mentioned on their blog, but not their site front page (and I probably wouldn’t have realised if I hadn’t seen the news…