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While looking through the HTML code generated by WordPress, I have come across several tags I was unfamiliar with. One of these was ACCESSKEY. At first sight, this would appear to be a very useful way of moving quickly about the page; indeed the Connections theme I use here uses accesskeys of a (About), c [...]

I have recently been using a T-Mobile Mobile Broadband USB stick 610 to connect to the Internet, but pages keep failing to update. (Even Google kept timing out on me). The status bar of Firefox said something like “looking up google.com”, so the problem was either a connectivity issue or a DNS issue. DNS converts [...]

I just installed a new WordPress based domain for a customer. Everything went tickety-boo with the installation, until I made the final changes. When I moved the domain from its temporary server at test.tempwebhost.com to the live domain at www.example.com, the site stopped working (for me). Before moving the domain, I had set up the [...]

I decided that it really was time I upgraded my installation of WordPress from version 2.2.1. This is normally a really simple process, but not this time. Rather than overwriting the existing installation, I always start afresh. I backed up the databases as usual, disabled all plugins, downloaded the latest version (2.9.2) and then proceeded [...]

I have been asked to layout a newsletter for the local civic society as the usual person was too busy. Although I have an uninstalled copy of Microsoft Publisher somewhere, I had never used it before and wanted to find an open source alternative. Enter Scribus and GhostScript. In order to get this to work [...]