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  • Why do businesses use open statements as their taglines?

    Company slogans or, more often, taglines often leave me bemused. Often they tell you no more about what the company does, so if it’s not obvious from their name, you’re pretty stumped.

    But the one that’s amusing me more right now, is the open statement. They leave you to finish it off, without explicitly telling you that they’re referring to themselves. They think it’s clever. It’s not.

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  • Switching WordPress themes for Dark Mode

    Switching WordPress themes for Dark Mode

    There are lot of solutions for detecting and/or switching dark mode on and off for WordPress, but nothing is more elegant that a simple CSS solution. With this, you can easily modify your theme look based on the system setting. With one caveat.

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  • How to add a browser UI colour theme to your WordPress site

    How to add a browser UI colour theme to your WordPress site

    More and more browsers are providing support for sites to style the UI. More recently, Safari has done the same, where the colouring around the tab and top menu bars can be modified, depending on the site being viewed.

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  • Moving House

    Moving House

    No, not mine. My eldest daughter, and her fiancee, have bought their first house! They’ve been renting until now so a house of their own, on a newly built estate is exciting.

    They have a while of rental left on the old property, allowing them to slowly move. However, getting carpets put in the new house has held things up and they’re still waiting for one for the living room. With the clock ticking they couldn’t wait any longer. I’d always said I’d go and help out – despite them not living nearby – and I was called up on Saturday to see if I could go and help them, 2 days later, on Monday and Tuesday.

    Thankfully, I have a very understanding and flexible employer and I was able to do this without any issue at all.

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