Author: simonwheatley
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Contractors and tradespeople
We’ve just had our house done up, and some of the lessons we’ve learned and problems we’ve hit may be useful to others.
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Spiced sweet butternut squash soup
An improvised soup, based on a combination of what was in the cupboard and “Spiced Sweet Potato & Red Onion Soup” from Soup Kitchen; this version is pure butternut squash. That’s the wife’s lunches sorted then.
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A Moroccan-ish Casserole
An improvised casserole, based on what was in the cupboard, with a Moroccan twist. Next time I’d like to try preserved lemons, which seem to be preferred over fresh for Moroccan style cooking. Staying with the MiL at the moment, so I was able to take advantage of her terracotta casserole dish which seemed appropriate…
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Free downloadable UK maps from Ordnance Survey
Well lorday, how generous: Ordnance Survey is now providing a selection of free, downloadable, basic small-scale maps of Great Britain.
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The Government double charges us for data
I’ve just felt sufficiently exercised to write to my MP, about the UK government charging for information they’ve collected with our (the UK taxpayers) money. For example, I’m doing a location based events search for Arts & Kids. The data underpinning this has been collected by OS and the Royal Mail, using tax payers money,…
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The Get Human database
UK organisations with the steps needed to get through their infernal touch tone phone menus to speak with a real live human being. Absolutely brilliant.
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P3P Wizard – Free $29.95 Automated P3P Privacy Policy Generator
IE 6 on Windows rejects cookies not sent with compact privacy headers; meaning that some users may not be able to access some areas of your site. The solution is to generate a privacy policy, which this P3P Wizard takes (most of) the pain out of…
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Startershop is out!
We’ve just launched our new ecommerce product, Startershop. As it says on the tin: Startershop is an easy to use, no-nonsense ecommerce solution for just £199 setup, free for the first year, then £10/month thereafter.
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Width-based layout: CollyLogic: Redesign Notes 1
“A layout NOT based upon screen resolution, NOT forcing a horizontal scrollbar, NOT relying on cookies or a user choice to define a layout. A layout that uses 3 cols, but remains fixed. That is, my column widths never change.”
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Recent Listening on WordPress
I’ve reconnected to Last.FM to capture what I’m listening to. You can see the results on the sidebar under “Recent Listening”.