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Debian devilment

The observant will note that Samscam has changed colour again and the really anal will have noticed that it has moved servers again too. Sick of paying over 20 quid a month for services I'm not really using I've gone for a budget-concious option of renting a Virtual Private Server which works out at £7. read more...
Posted at 03:09pm on Monday 16th January, 2006
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Colours, archives, searching and Bootsy

You can't have failed to spot by now that we have had another fight with the Samscam stylesheet and I think we have won this time. Both of us were getting sick of the blue and this new incarnation feels a little more stylish all round. read more...
Posted at 02:46pm on Sunday 6th November, 2005
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Technically minded nonsense

The very observant of you may have noted that there have been various quiet little improvements on Samscam of recent weeks. Importantly the Atom 1. read more...
Posted at 03:12pm on Thursday 3rd November, 2005
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Pork, pork and more pork

Today's little view of the Samscam Statistics revealed that we were getting rather a lot of hits for our Pork Mince Recipes. Further investigation reveals that we are on the second page of Google, narrowly beating the New Zealand Pork Industry Board. read more...
Posted at 05:47pm on Saturday 10th September, 2005
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Pink and blue and almost new

Well I've turned it blue. I'm not sure if it's really an improvement but it was what I typed on the train last night and it seems like a change is as good as a rest if you ask me. read more...
Posted at 04:34pm on Friday 25th February, 2005
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Ups, downs and a very strange quote...

Many of you will hopefully rejoice at the re-introduction of the Gallery after a long disappearance at the hands of slobbyness. It's made all the more exciting by the presence of a new digital camera - a lovely little tiny weenie Pentax thing. read more...
Posted at 10:22pm on Sunday 6th February, 2005
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Changes afoot

As regular readers will note, there has been a brief interruption of service and various things are gorne. This is due to the inevitable technical differences between the system I was using (thanks to my old job) and my replacement hosting provider. read more...
Posted at 01:31pm on Sunday 1st August, 2004
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Mudcrumbs (or blicons)

I made a plugin for Blosxom to show these category-based icons. Hooray. read more...
Posted at 12:23pm on Wednesday 4th June, 2003
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Persuasive Technology

While browsing Hamish's weblog today I noticed an item I'd overlooked a month ago on Persuasive Technology. And the reminder of Stanford's Guidelines for Web Credibility, something which should be applied rigorously to a certain site I run. read more...
Posted at 04:05pm on Wednesday 14th May, 2003
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Easydns up the spout again?

I've been using this easyDNS thing for a year or two now, and they've generally been really good. Nice people on the support email, things just working. read more...
Posted at 04:41pm on Tuesday 6th May, 2003
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Blogsagogo!

All set up I think. Samscam is now armed with Blosxom which seems like a tidy piece of kit. read more...
Posted at 03:32pm on Tuesday 6th May, 2003
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