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  • Ah, the irony of Dido Harding

    Ah, the irony of Dido Harding

    There are renewed calls for OpenReach to be split from BT which, I’ll admit, I totally agree with.

    However, when Dido Harding, CEO of TalkTalk, says…

    The reason why I care about this is that my customers are fed up with the fact that the network doesn’t work well enough and they know that they’re not getting the service they deserve.

    …it’s really hard not to choke on anything in your mouth at the time.

    In a Which? report last year of the customer service provided by 100 biggest brands, TalkTalk came third from bottom. That’s not even just ISPs.

    So, Dido Harding, when are your customers going to get the service they deserve?

  • How WordPress Transients Work

    How WordPress Transients Work

    What is a transient?

    A transient is a way of storing data in WordPress for temporary purposes – it’s often used for caching, for example. Transients can, optionally, be given an expiry timestamp, after which time they will be deleted.

    How to use transients?

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  • Be afraid America, be afraid…

    Be afraid America, be afraid…

    A victory by Mr. Trump remains quite possible: Mrs. Clinton’s chance of losing is about the same probability that an N.B.A. player will miss a free throw.

    The New York Times

  • Ghosting – not your normal comic!

    My daughter has finished college now and, later in the year, heads off to University to study comic-book art. As part of her final project she created a comic book. But it’s no ordinary comic as this one deals with depression, understanding, and being an adult – a style that I now understand is called “slice of life“.

    You can help her out by downloading it from the link below – it costs just $1.50 and with that you get extra material along with a video. Get it before she’s the “next big thing” 😀 Honestly, you won’t be disappointed.

  • Ok, we get it, you don’t like Pokemon Go

    Ok, we get it, you don’t like Pokemon Go

    Ok, we get it, you don’t like Pokemon Go. Fine. Do like I do and ignore it. Jeez.

    @DavidArtiss on Twitter