Author Archives: David

The Glass and The Inspiration

Posted on June 10, 2010 by David

Summer of 2008 I spent most of the summer roasting in Upstate New York working at camp, mostly working with video and photo, preparing the camp’s media that year. I had the pleasure of re-visiting New York City at the … Continue reading →

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Blog Move 1: Getting WordPress data to Ruby using XML

Posted on June 5, 2010 by David

Step 1 in the “Moving my blog” process is “Extract the current site’s data into a manageable format” Frankly, that’s easy! WordPress has a functionality to export the site’s content to a single XML file containing all the published Categories, … Continue reading →

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I’m going to move my blog…

Posted on June 5, 2010 by David

I want to get away from this current site, it doesn’t show off anything of my professional work nor does the site itself actually resemble or build on anything I’ve made (apart, obviously, from WordPress site implementations). How to go … Continue reading →

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Site Launch — Tales of the Unexpected

Posted on April 26, 2010 by David

Last week saw the launch of TOTU: Tales of the Unexpected, a Summer Madness and Exodus project. The site was developed by me with visual identity design by Connie & Craig, the super-talented folks over at

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New CMS Review — Perch

Posted on April 26, 2010 by David

Several months ago I blogged about using Textpattern as the CMS for the Harry Ferguson Memorial website. It was while I was implementing that site I realised how Txp should really be used, and that it wasn’t really necessarily the … Continue reading →

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Virgin Media and Password Security

Posted on April 22, 2010 by David

“Your password must be less than 10 characters long.” “Your password must start with a letter.” “Your password must contain a number.” “Your password is too insecure!!” *You’re doing it wrong* —- edit: and after all that “We’re experiencing difficulties…” … Continue reading →

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The Problem with Nickel Creek

Posted on March 5, 2010 by David

So you’re coding along to your favourite type of productivity music [this week mine is country/folk/bluegrass] and turn shuffle off. You listen to lovely stuff like this [youtube link]. What’s the problem with listening to Nickel Creek? Without fail Nickleback … Continue reading →

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Admit it, you’re one of them huff duffers aren’t you?

Posted on March 5, 2010 by David

Today I huffduffed for the first time. I’ve planned to for a while… The word Huffduffer derives from a technology called Huff-Duff [HF/DF] that was used to triangulate the position of radio transmissions. Huffduffing on the web is a way … Continue reading →

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Band of Brothers followup: The Pacific

Posted on March 4, 2010 by David

Seriously excited to hear recently (announced eight months ago) that HBO have been filming a follow-up mini series to Band of Brothers based in the Far East, the Pacific theatre, apparently Sky have bought the UK rights. Can’t wait to … Continue reading →

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The Sky Mobile App: Review & How to cancel!

Posted on February 18, 2010 by David

In early November O2 iPhone and BSkyB announced that they were releasing a limited free trial of the Sky News & Sports Mobile App [iTMS link] for the iPhone. Pretty cool? Yes, three months of free small-screen Premiership Football, NHL … Continue reading →

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