Author: simonwheatley

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in Miscellaneous

There’s an irritating bug on Firefox for OSX when you’re using it with dual monitors. If you plugin the monitor after you’ve started Firefox, and it is in the secondary monitor, the autocomplete for URLs and for search queries will appear on the primary monitor. Very confusing. The solution is to restart Firefox (which retains…

Just clicked “Forgot pass…

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Just clicked "Forgot password" in the Firefox Bugzilla, and got the error "I need a legitimate login and password to continue"… ‘scuse me? #

Woohoo! Two posts on the North…

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Woohoo! Two posts on the NorthPack front page! #

If Saul Bass had designed the …

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If Saul Bass had designed the Star Wars credits: http://tinyurl.com/3b7lbz. Very nice.Â #

Great day at Barcamp Manchester

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in Work

Barcamp Manchester, held yesterday at the MEN Media HQ, was great and made it clear to me once again that there’s a great web community up here in the North. A very exciting place to be at the moment, and I’m convinced things here will only get better. Barcamps are always an opportunity to meet…

Daniel Morris: UK Teens & the Web at Barcamp Manchester

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in Work

Dan Morris’ session on UK Teens & the Web was one of my favourites of the day, which you can see from my frantically scribbled notes (below). Dan’s working for a semi-autonomous BBC unit which produces online content for teenagers, and had some really interesting insights to share from his experience and some research they’d…

Mar 2, 2008

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BarCamp Manchester. Why would you not. # Travel, is that not the first axis. Let’t join in. (Must not twitter when inebriated. -Ed)

Mar 1, 2008

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Good turn out for the first BarCamp Manchester. Looking forward to the day ahead. # Great talk from Dan Morris on the BBC’s work with teens. Waiting nervously for my slot on WordPress now. # BarCamp Manchester has decamped to the bar to disintegrate. Well done to Paul Robinson for pulling and holding the day…

Feb 29, 2008

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