Tim Thumb Shortcodes
I spent a while recently, playing around with the Tim Thumb image cropping and resizing script. I wanted a way of using Tim Thumb in WordPress where I could enter a simple shortcode into the WordPress editor and have Tim Thumb work its magic on an image.
Evening Canal Ride
This evening, Lisa and I are resuming our evening cycle rides along the Leeds Liverpool canal. It was a regular thing for us last summer but we’ve been way too busy to resume this year. So tonight is our first outing of the year on what looks like being one of the warmest days of [...]
Advanced Category Excluder
I use the WordPress plugin Advanced Category Excluder to hide a few categories from the front page. When I upgraded my (this) server to PHP 5.3 yesterday, the plugin broke any WordPress site where I had it running. This fixes it: for php 5.3 change the lines function ace_where(&$where,$filter=”") function ace_join(&$join,$filter=”") to function ace_where($where,$filter=”") function [...]


To us, it’s an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it’s the heist of the century
In David Cameron we have a leader whose job is to quietly legitimise a semi-criminal, money-laundering economy