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Happy 10th Birthday WordPress
Apparently 10 years ago today the first release of WordPress was let loose on the world. It is now the most popular web publishing tool in the world by a looooonnnnggg way – not bad for a small, trans-Atlantic open source project. My career has been pretty entangled with WordPress during that decade – I…
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Ghost writing
I’ve been ‘umming and ahhing’ about it for a while but yesterday I finally got around to backing Ghost on Kickstarter. For those of you that aren’t aware of it Ghost is aiming to be; An open source blogging platform which makes writing pleasurable and publishing simple. The basic premise is that WordPress has become…
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Code for America: Fixing Procurement
Interesting series of posts over on the Code for America blog about ‘fixing procurement‘. Some of the terminology might be different but I think anyone working in the UK public sector will recognise the issues discussed. Related just this week the G-Cloud, the UKs own attempt to solve some of the procurement problems, won an award…
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Anker Astro2: the commuters friend
My life is basically a series of trips on public transport punctuated by occasional other activity (work, social life etc). My current job is responsible for a minimum of 13 hours a week of commuting – the vast majority of that on a train route that has no wifi, minimal 3G connectivity and worst of…