Meet the meatpuppet
Matt Revell has started posting a series of interviews with the Launchpad Development Team. His interview of yours truly, Meet Graham Binns, is the first up: Matthew: What can we go and look at that you’ve done on Launchpad? Graham: The bugs pages ! Actually, a great deal of my work is work you don’t [...]
Whoops
A big sorry to the LiveJournal users who just got spammed by a double-post from the photo feed. The hack that I wrote to pull the Flickr feed into the blog post stream isn't smart enough to cope with the idea that an image might change (though in this case I don't think it could [...]
One of those analogies you won’t forget
My colleague and friend Matt Revell has a nice summary of some of the reasons for rising domestic fuel prices in the UK at the moment. A phrase that particularly caught my eye was this one: Wind power, also, is not reliable nor particularly efficient and requires generation from other sources (coal, gas, nuclear, for [...]
It gave me a little warm tingly chuckle
Seen on The Reverse Swing Manifesto: I like that we get to be the Mac guy. Although, to be fair, the Mac/PC ads annoy the hell out of me.
To be filed under WTF
From BBC news (link): A British teacher has been found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison and will then be deported. Which is bad enough. I mean it's a [...]
The first step
Seth Godin sums up the starting-a-story problem perfectly: That Moment When you are sitting right on the edge of something daring and scary and creative and powerful and perhaps wonderful… and you blink and take a step back. That's the moment. The moment between you and remarkable. Most people blink. Most people get stuck. All [...]
If you can see this
Then the transition worked and you're now viewing a post from the all new grahambinns.com. Come have a look around. If you find any bugs, please report them at trac.grahambinns.com/newticket. Cheers, Graham
Most People Stop at Page 3
And not just for the boobs, according to the BBC: Most people using a search engine expect to find what they are looking for on the first page of results, says a US study. At most, people will go through three pages of results before giving up… Good thing, then, that if people were inclined [...]
The Bloggers Wine Freebie
I am behind – very, very behind – with my blogging. Having decided that I really needed to blow some of the cobwebs off The BinnsBlog and GBC in general I took a look at my WordPress control panel and nearly… Well, I didn’t nearly do anything. I just sighed, took a deep breath, and [...]
Thanks
Tom Reynolds has posted some excerpts from the London Ambulance Service’s unofficial messageboard today. Once again I think that this is proof positive of how proud we should be of such a professional, dedicated bunch of people, and how glad we should be that they are as good as they are.
Wholesale
And whilst I’m on the subject of linking to things found in blogs not my own, I thought I’d let you know that Neil Gaiman’s excellent short story We Can Get Them For You Wholesale is going to be online for the next month or so at Shadow Writer. Just in case you’re short of [...]
Back Online
Well that was an interesting morning! For reasons best known to someone else the www.grahambinns.com webserver stopped serving PHP pages at about 9am today. I have no idea why this happened whatsoever, but I’m glad to say that it’s now fixed (or so it seems) after a reinstall of Debian and all things therewith. Unfortunately, [...]
e-Hoggery
As Simon Willison has pointed out in his blog, the new version of Ubuntu – "Linux for human beings" – has been released today (version 5.04, also known as "The Hoary Hedgehog"). Ubuntu is one of those distributions that geeks like me either love or hate. Personally I like the look of it. It’s a [...]
Hobbit Sex and Womble Porn
It disturbs me more than a little that according to Webalizer the top search string used to find my blog has been "Hobbits sex." Triffic, that. Mind you, at least I’m not top of the Google rankings for that search term (nor, so far as I can tell, anywhere near the top), as Tom Reynolds [...]
Whoops
Apologies to anyone who had trouble reading the site this evening. It seems that I got overzealous with my SSL-redirections earlier, resulting in WordPress looking for it’s stylesheet (amongst other things) on the secure server instead of the normal one. It’s fixed now though.
A Quick One
Just to say that I reports of my death have been greatly under-spoken, and that I have returned from that stressful place called work. A couple of points to make: The new Pendle Council site is online at www.pendle.gov.uk, powered by the all mighty Jadu eGov CMS. Go, have a look, send in an email [...]
Meta
Some more metablogging, which I thought I wouldn’t be doing but which is at the same time – like anything else one shouldn’t be doing, such as eating flapjacks when you’re supposed to be on a diet – strangely compelling: Tom Reynolds has written a nice informative piece about not getting fired for blogging. Luckily [...]
Issues Resolved… I think
It seems as though the issues with WordPress and its trackbacks and pingbacks have been resolved for the most part. Well, I think so at any rate. Certainly comment notification and incoming trackbacks work but whether or not outgoing ones will work is another matter, as is the spidering of the site by Technorati and [...]
Issues
This is interesting. I seem to be having some difficulties with trackbacks and pings, though quite why this is I can’t fathom. When I trackback to someone else’s blog the trackback never appears in their comments (this could be their moderation but I doubt it). Similarly trackbacks to my blog don’t appear in my comments [...]
Feeds Updated, Travel and Other Gubbins
I’m in a tizzy this morning as I’m making preparations to go to London for a hard day’s listening to some boring fart from the ODPM tomorrow. Oh, rapture. Mind you I should be able to get some decent writing done on the train(s). I’ve been very lax this week on that front, so I [...]
Movement Update
Well, I’ve successfully created myself a domain (www.grahambinns.com) and migrated all my WordPress posts (what a nightmare it would have been I had had chance to be as verbose here as I was on my LiveJournal). If you’re reading this on the site then you may well have been redirected from the old home of [...]
LiveJournal Feed
Out of nothing more than a sense of self-importance I’ve created a LiveJournal feed for The BinnsBlog, which you can find here. I’ll stick it in the Miscellaneous links section when I get home; work’s firewall blocks sending referrers and this upsets WordPress somewhat.
On Blogs, Blogging and New Beginnings
The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things Of shoes and Blogs and LiveJournal, of cabbages and kings The blog-savvy amongst you may have noticed that in my previous post I mentioned WordPress and the fact that I’ve installed it on my webspace at codedragonstudios.org. Anyone who can connect two and [...]
