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  • 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
  • Is there a fundamental flaw in the Back to the Future films?

    Is there a fundamental flaw in the Back to the Future films?

    I suspect I’m not the first person to realise this but I’ve realised there’s a fundamental flaw in the Back to the Future trilogy.

    In the second film, Doc explains how the timeline works and, in particular, how if you change it, it creates a new future timeline on which you then travel.

    So, when in the 3rd film they go back to 1885 and they change the future (the ravine, etc), this means they create an alternative future. A future in which Marty didn’t go back to 1955 and change how his parents meet. So when he ends up, at the end of the film, in 1995 doesn’t he now have the dorky parents and siblings again?