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2008-04-27

How to make your Blogsome blog private.

Filed under: Blogging  |  Permalink

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Artist biogs, galleries.

Filed under: Art  |  Permalink

2008-04-23

Create a calendar for any year

Filed under: General reference  |  Permalink

Filed under: Humour  |  Permalink

2008-04-19

How To Hot-link Images Without Actually Hot-linking.

Use the imgred.com service and just format your links as follows:

<img src="http://imgred.com/http://www.example.com/image.jpg” />

To show thumbnails, format links like this:

<img src="http://imgred.com/tn/http://www.example.com/image.jpg” />

Filed under: Web tools  |  Permalink

2008-04-11

The Consumer Council for Water represents water and sewerage consumers in England and Wales.

We provide a strong national voice for consumers. We will […] take up consumers’ complaints if they have tried and failed to resolve issues with their water companies. We aim to settle 70% of complaints within 20 working days and settle 85% within 40 working days. Since CCWater was formed we have been highly successful in achieving these aims.

Filed under: Consumerism  |  Permalink

lightbluetouchpaper.org. Security Research, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Interesting.

Filed under: Internet  |  Permalink

2008-04-09

Photojojo. How to take better pictures. Useful for both digital and ‘proper’ photographers.

Filed under: Misc  |  Permalink

TV’s worst adverts.

Filed under: Television  |  Permalink

2008-04-03

History of Frampton nr. Boston (Lincolnshire, UK)

Filed under: History  |  Permalink

2008-04-02

Jim Crow Museum. A guided tour of the history of racial stereotypes.

Filed under: History  |  Permalink

2008-04-01

How to build powerful filters in Gmail.

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The origins of popular product names.

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How to recognize different types of wood grain. Includes info about various types of veneers; in fact, all things to do with wood.

Filed under: Misc  |  Permalink

‘Markdown’ isn’t used on this site, but looks useful, especially if you write a lot of computer code. Worth taking a look at.

Filed under: Blogging  |  Permalink

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