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Google maps bus information

Lewis — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:48:14 +0000

Just noticed that Google maps now has information on bus stop location, each with a list of alleged buses available in the infomarker.

Not good news if you actually wanted to catch a bus, but the saving grace for anyone concerned about the all-seeing eye of the 2 Mr Google’s deep in their underground lair, is that the information is completely wrong… (at the moment). There’s a bus stop there, but it sure as hell doesn’t have those bus numbers stopping at it.

Habari PHP weblog software

Lewis — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:32:44 +0000

Having a lot of work stacked up and nothing fun to do, I decided to ignore the work and give Habari a test installation on a localhost, just play around with it for an hour or two and see what the deal was with the core code.

To be scrupulously fair, these vague observations are the product of an hour or so, and of course, not authoritative in that regard. Against this, I have no great love for the present direction of WordPress… 2.5 seems laudable in most ideas, but not quite the finished version at present - there is still the spectre of bloat here, and I don’t think viable competition would do WordPress any harm at all.
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WordPress and Google Sitemaps?

Lewis — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:12:21 +0000

I’ve got a WordPress blog, should I go to the trouble of setting up a (Google) sitemap for it?

No.

Why not?

The clue is in Google’s “locate web pages our spiders might not otherwise find…” - that’s what a sitemap does, and WordPress, if and when set up properly in its permalink structure will do the job just as well. (more…)

SocialSpark Disaster

Lewis — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:55:37 +0000

So this is the brave new world… Let’s be totally honest (for once) - I’ve never seen a bigger pile of dren.

u add my blog as one of your links, and i add your blog as one of my links i got pr2 blog

Now you will get a free ebook every day

(2nd prize, 2 ebooks)

What would you do with an Unlimited Supply of FREE Business Cards? Can you imagine the possibilities?

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WordPress Admin Themes

Lewis — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:18:18 +0000

Admin Themes? What is that all about? Well, it’s obviously part of the masterplan, since the option became available.So what is the great attraction in having a skin to stare at while doing important things like editing posts, culling comments etc. Like skins for Firefox, these things do rather slow down productivity.

As usual, some clever plugins and articles have arrived, but… surely, only extreme narcissists need apply….

BlogChemistry

Lewis — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:31:52 +0000

Jesse Garner (known as Jennifer to his friends) is setting out on the long march towards PR6 with BlogChemistry, promising the standard formula of WordPress themes and general PHP programming know-how…

He would always be welcoming of your support and am happy to offer mine to a mate… and we did let him borrow the “true sliding-doors” trick for the horizontal tabs.