This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
I’ve just added a new (to me anyway) extension to my Firefox browser. It’s called zotero, and while it’s going to take me some time to get the most from it, it’s beginning to look very useful.
When not in use it just sits down in the bottom status bar, the fun starts when it’s opened [...]
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I had to include this here….
Absolutely brilliant!
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Having a website on view to the world is, on the whole, a rewarding thing. I reckon to get about 10 or so emails each week mentioning either this blog or perhaps the family tree bits and pieces I have. Almost all of them are either thanks for information I have provided, requests for more [...]
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I guess, like most people, you received a copy of an email asking for your support by signing a petition about road charging at the Downing Street website.
It seems that the 1.4 million 1,588,702 1,689,932 1,794,174 1,791,942 (+) people who signed may have rattled the cage of those in charge. The London Standard is reporting [...]
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Really nice collection of free web and blog template sites at smashing magazine today.
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I’ll be closely monitoring the change I have just made to this blog.
Removing the need for registration before posting a comment is a pretty big move. Regular readers will know that I have been plagued by comment spam in the past but I feel that the Akismet plug-in has solved this and I’m ready to [...]
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Apart from being an excellent piece of editing, this video is worth a watch if you have a spare few minutes.
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Some months ago I had a power supply problem with my Dell laptop, well really it was a power supply socket problem. It meant I had to find a new socket, which I now have, and then perform the major surgery to fit it, which I haven’t!
Anyhow I did fire the machine up for the [...]
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Firefox users; ever closed a browser tab and wish you hadn’t?
Worry no more, Ctrl-Shift-t (Cmd-Shift-T for Mac users) will bring it back complete with contents – neat!
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