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My latest project – the One Minute Business Checkup

I’ve spent the last 10 weeks building a site for a client. Well, a web app. It’s called One Minute Business Checkup and it’s 100% my work… programming, DB schema, graphics, Javascript, the lot. I don’t like doing one-man builds like this, as a rule, but this was fun. Check it out. And if you’ve [...]

My Twitter account has been suspended!

Awoke this morning to the discovery that Twitter suspended my account overnight. I’ve sent the relevant appeals out, so stand by for more details. Worried.

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addthis_title = ‘My+Twitter+account+has+been+suspended%21′;
addthis_pub = ‘alicam’;

 

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WordPress plugin: Add Categories to Menu

If you’re using WordPress as a CMS, you may have set up static pages for both a front page (e.g. “Home”) and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. “Blog”).
I did that today for a client site and immediately realized that in the site’s main menu the Blog link would look a lot [...]

Hope your Holiday Season is a total GAS!

This is all the more comical for the fact that it is hot, sunny and summery in Australia at Christmas time. If you don’t like the humour, blame my wife!

We’re all class! And for something vaguely more traditional, again by the inimitable Cameron troupe…

On a more serious note, may you find at least a moment [...]

The unfair, unbearable burden of turning 18 in Australia

Coming home tonight, I listened to the ABC radio host chatting with a guest who, almost as a throw-away remark, said something that hit me really hard.
I was “exercised in my spirit” to send the following to Lindy Burns, the host of the show. Having taken as long on the email as I did, I [...]

Twitter for fun and, ahem, profit.

This week I made a decision. A difficult decision that shouldn’t be. I made the decision to monetize my Twitter account.
This post explains my rationale and might have to do for now as a “disclaimer” of sorts. I’d appreciate your feedback, because my “journey” on Twitter may be instructive for your own purposes, but most [...]

Copenhagen: a conspiracy of lies and silence! Stop being a mushroom on this issue!

Regarding the imminent Copenhagen treaty signing, Janet Albrechtsen writes in the Australian:
Ask yourself this: why has our government failed to explain the possible text of a treaty it wants Australia to sign? There has been no address from any Rudd minister to explain the draft treaty. No 3000-word essay from the thoughtful PM. No speech [...]

Why are Kyle and Jackie O still on Twitter’s Suggested User List?

2Day FM is the flagship station of Australian radio network Austereo, and among its star attractions are morning presenters Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O. Well, they used to be star attractions, except they were pulled off the air “indefinitely” after an on-air stunt went badly wrong on the morning of Wednesday 29th July.
In an even-more-vulgar-and-crass-than-typical [...]

Why Alex King’s Carrington WP theme is great.

I was stunned today to discover that a lot of people just don’t “get” the Carrington theme by Alex King and the team at Crowd Favorite. To me it’s a no-brainer why it’s so damn good, and why I’m basing a part of the functionality of my upcoming Vanilla theme on it.
So being a faster [...]

Democratizing the Twitter “suggested users” list. Vote now!

Seen this before?

It’s the suggested users list that Twitter installed a few weeks back. A brand new Twitter users sees it at the conclusion of their signup process.
@biz explained a few days ago how they go about selecting people for the list, and it’s still a whole lot less than clear and transparent:
We’ve explained that [...]

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