2012 January 23

All the old chestnuts again – home education is not a safeguarding issue.

January 23, 2012 By Jax Blunt 13 Comments

There’s a letter floating around Facebook and creeping on to blogs, from a Kent county council employee, referencing new intentions from the secretary of state for education to link HE children to schools and include them in school attainment targets. *headdesk*. There’s a freedom of information request in already to get to the bottom of [...]

Filed Under: political stuff, Stealing your freedom

Rubbish diet – a waste reducing challenge ;)

January 23, 2012 By Jax Blunt 12 Comments

The start of an 8 week Rubbish Diet challenge, coordinated by Karen over at the Rubbish Diet. Our starting weigh in is a bit odd with having been away at centerparcs for 4 days last week! We threw out one swing bin worth while we were there – that included food waste that we would [...]

Filed Under: It's where it is

CSS Tip: Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning
I was having a little problem with styling a WordPress/Genesis Author Box. The normal layout is that there is an avatar in the top left hand corner around which the text flows- like this: However, what the client wanted was for the all text to be indented, in a neat column to the right of [...]The post CSS Tip: Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positionin […]
How to improve your page load speed using pingdom.
Why would you check your page load speed in the first place? If you’re like me, you hate hanging around waiting for a page to load. So have you considered checking how speedy your own blog is? There are some simple tests you can do to check what’s going on – one resource I’ve used [...]The post How to improve your page load speed using pingdom. appeared firs […]
WordPress under attack – how to protect your site from the admin account hack.
There’s an Ars Technica article flying around right now about a massive attack on wordpress sites around the internet attempting to build a super botnet. The attack is working by targeting a particular user account that the vast majority of sites have, including this one. According to CloudFlare’s Prince, the distributed attacks are attempting to [...]The po […]