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  • My Wedding Singer Diary – Part 1

    My Wedding Singer Diary – Part 1

    In a few months time I’ll be performing in a show. I own a blog. Why, before now, have I not thought to combine them? Okay, we’re a couple of months into rehearsals, so this first part will be extra long and bring everything up-to-date.

    Okay, The Wedding Singer. One of my favourite films and probably my favourite non-SciFi film. It’s a show I’ve always wanted to do (if you didn’t know already, I regularly perform in local amateur shows) and BMTG (Beeston Musical Theatre Group) are performing it. Actually, I was asked if I would be in it, rather than volunteering myself, which is always nice.

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  • Things I hate about other people’s WordPress Plugins

    Things I hate about other people’s WordPress Plugins

    I love WordPress plugins but there are things that other developers do that, as a user, really frustrate me. Now, to be clear, these are issues I have as a user and don’t represent the views of WordPress or Automattic.

    In this case I’m going to kill two birds with a single stone with just one plugin that I’ve just installed – To Top.

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  • YouTube Embed version 5 – what you need to know

    YouTube Embed version 5 – what you need to know

    I’m just testing version 5 of my YouTube Embed WordPress plugin. There are a couple of major changes, which are particularly noteworthy…

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  • WordPress Plans

    WordPress Plans

    It’s no good, I’ve spent too long away from my WordPress plugins and need to spend more time on them. The last few months I’ve been revamping my site and, due to other circumstances, spending far too long having to re-visit as many of my 1000+ posts and editing them. However, I gave myself a deadline and that’s the end of this week. My post editing is done and any work this weekend will be final tweaks to the site itself.

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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?