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Measuring humanity.

June 11, 2012 By Jax Blunt 5 Comments

When times are easy, it’s easy to be generous. If you’ve got a lot, it’s not hard to give a little, and there aren’t so many ppl wanting stuff anyway. But times aren’t easy just now. They are hard. Lots of ppl are struggling, both here and abroad. And it’s how we respond to them […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: ShareNiger, spartacusreport

If you've enjoyed reading this year, and have a few moments to spare, I'd love if you could click here or on the MADs badge over in the sidebar and nominate me. The family fun category would be lovely, though I'd be very happy with any nominations at all, and I'm especially grateful to whoever nominated me for blog of the year :) Thank you.

Tax, benefits, morality and #spartacusreport

January 21, 2012 By Jax Blunt 2 Comments

I’ve been arguing with the HMRC website this afternoon. It’s coming up to the deadline for SA returns, and even though I’m fairly sure I don’t owe anything, I have to submit on time or I get a £100 fine. All of this led me to have a bit of a rant on twitter. But […]

Filed Under: political stuff, ranting or raving, Stealing your freedom Tagged With: campaigning, disability, spartacusreport, welfare reform bill, wrb

How to choose a host for your shiny new wordpress website.
So, you’ve listened to the talks on self hosting your website, you’ve read around on the issues that using wordpress.com or blogger or other free systems might imply and you’ve decided to take the leap. You know you need a domain name, and a host. But what are those things, where do you get them, […]The post How to choose a host for your shiny new wordpress […]
Twitter cards for blogspot users
I’ve previously written on implementing twitter cards on wordpress and in a comment on that post was asked if it could be achieved for blogger. The answer is of course yes, and I found a number of articles claiming to achieve it, but none really seemed straightforward to me, so here’s my own recipe. (To […]The post Twitter cards for blogspot users appeared f […]
How to get a new twitter widget to fix that broken tweetstream.
Twitter API upgrade leads to broken twitter widgets At the end of last week, Twitter upgraded API from 1.0 to 1.1. (API is how external sites link to twitter’s code.) The result was that lots and lots of tweetstreams on blogs and sites around the internet broke. It’s likely that if you’re in that situation, […]The post How to get a new twitter widget to fix […]