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Brain dump January 2013
I haven’t posted to this blog much recently, so I thought i’d set myself a new routine of blogging at least at the end of each…
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The one that got away – my old VW T25 Panel Van
I found some pictures of my old VW T25 camper, “The strawberry van” – a 1983 1.9 water-cooled panel van. I bought it off some clown.…
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Keep calm and carry some tools
A few days before christmas we headed off on the first long trip in Rocky since buying him. The cross-country trip from our home town of…
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Rocky, our VW T25 Campervan
In September 2012, we bought Rocky, a 1983 VW T25 Devon moonraker campervan. The T25 (also known as a T3 across most of europe), is the…
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Back on the road
I’ve reinstated my travel/ mobile working/ camping blog, using the latest version of eatStatic blog software.
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Learning to touch type properly
So, one of my goals for this year was to learn to touch type. I pretty much ignored this goal until last week, when I opened…
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Another flat-file driven blog/ cms engine on the block
I’ve just been looking at Statamic, which is a markdown-driven CMS and blog, self-hosted and written in PHP. It’s commercial rather than open-source, but at a…
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Getting back on the road!
Last year I shut down this blog and incorporated the content into my web development/ techie blog, but I’ve decided to resurrect “Rick on the Road”.…
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Sub-optimal web content workflow used by many agencies
I’ve worked at a fair few agencies in my time, and despite most agencies now using content management systems as standard, the content population and revision…
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Pushing a local git repo to a bare remote
Often I create a git repo locally, but then want to push it to a remotely hosted repo. On the server, create a folder and move…
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Analysis of my social media usage
Over the last couple of years i’ve tried to rationalise the way I use various social media sites, and I realised that how I use a…
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A few notes on image uploading and configuration in Django
I recently added image uploading to Too Old To Skate, and not having set up a “normal” django site for a while, hit about every stumbling…