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RSS Auto Discovery10 years ago
I need to do this for the various RSS feeds I create. How? Isn’t google wonderful? See Peter Freitag’s article on his blog. Peter refers to browsers displaying the RSS feed address behind a button, this went out of fashion Roller Dave Johnson writes about it at this article on …
zbench and photo headers6 years ago
I finally got round to experimenting with a photo banner for the site. This is a standard feature in most themes and cropped a picture and uploaded it via the Appearance -> Header dialogue panel. It looks like this,….
My little mail server5 years ago
What a pile of poo! I have access to four smtp servers and they all have limits on the distribution list size! (They are all about the same size of 100). Google will allow 2000 per list but only if you use one of their clients. Let’s try and bring …
.uk names and nominet5 years ago
Nominet UK is the top level registrar of internet domain names in the UK. This is its home page. Here’s its wikipedia page. It also has a whois query page. There is an alternative at easywhois. and at who.is. Outlaw explain their view of the legal position in the case …
JSON to XML5 years ago
In order to export the ello.co feed, I need to convert the JSON to XML. This isn’t the first time I have needed to look at this sort of problem and so I have created a page to hold my notes. I have put these things together in a python …

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