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  • WordPress ‘Swag Store’ Gets a New Look

    WordPress ‘Swag Store’ Gets a New Look

    WordPress has recently re-launched their ‘Swag store‘ with a great new look, new features and new products to boot. Here you can pick up everything from a branded baby-grow to a phone charger and they’ve promised there’s more to come.

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  • Why can’t I transfer my domain from 1&1?

    Why can’t I transfer my domain from 1&1?

    I’ve had an account with 1&1 for, oh, many years. Never for hosting but simply for domain handling – specifically artiss.co.uk.

    However, needing to install SSL on this domain, my host (Tsohost) can only do it if the domain is hosted with them and 1&1, well, they won’t give me SSL because I don’t have the domain hosted with them. So, the easiest solution was to move the domain to Tsohost.

    Sadly, 1&1 have made sure this process isn’t easy.

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  • Why my denied WordPress Core contribution was the right thing

    Why my denied WordPress Core contribution was the right thing

    Yesterday, the following Tweet, copying in myself, appeared on my Timeline.

    The image is a quote from the README of one of my plugins. Except it’s being used to make a point – a point I don’t agree with (which I’m guessing the Tweet author wasn’t expecting to be the case).

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  • Our Easter short break

    Our Easter short break

    • Standing next to a Tiger.
    • Sitting on a beach at the eastern most part of the country.
    • Driving a car for the first time.

    Not a bad list of things achieved for a 7 year old during a short 3 day Easter holiday.

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  • Whatever you do, don’t trust Doros Kiriakoulis

    Whatever you do, don’t trust Doros Kiriakoulis

    Last year I wrote about how a single product, the GoKey, had made me give up on crowd funding websites. Badly delayed, something always seemed to come up when the deadline was imminent. However, it all appeared to be moving on and only a couple of weeks ago all the backers received an email so we could provide final confirmation details of our product requirements (for example, my phone connection has changed, twice,
    since originally backing the product, so I needed a different connector on the GoKey).

    This morning I had an email.

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