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The Business Club
Diana and I went to The Business Club – Lincolnshire last week. It was a great meeting where in small groups, businesses helped each other with ideas on how to solve business issues as they were presented by each person in the group. This was my table – from left to right. Craig Tulip –…
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Our work with local companies
The other day I was called in to assist with the installation of some huge copier printers at one of our clients sites. One of our partner companies had asked us in to make sure that everything ran smoothly. By being on site I was able to ensure that everyone could print and scan from…
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We understand email like most people understand postage stamps!
Clive is very fond of saying that we understand email like most people understand postage stamps. It’s a bit of a throwaway phrase which doesn’t mean an awful lot but is very memorable, I think you’ll agree! However, the main problem is that few of his listeners will realise quite how much of a big…
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So it begins: the EU cookie law scams | Idea15 Blog
Whilst at WordCampUK 2012, I attended a session given by Heather Burns about the EU Cookie Directive – she gave an excellent overview of the implications and interpretations of the law. Heather has just posted an article on her Idea15 Blog about the enevitable scam – read it below: So it begins: the EU cookie…
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Moving Antenna at a farm
Myself and Michael had to move a wireless link antenna today at a farm due to a new office about to be built. It was quite difficult as the wall in the barn is double skinned and has rockwool insulation between. The drill bits tend to bounce as the steel is quite bendy. But we…
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WordCamp UK 2012
Now I am back from the weekend’s WordPress Conference and have caught up with this week’s work, it is time to start to implement some of the changes I learnt about. Top of the list is making my personal and business WordPress sites more secure – I know of several sites who did not make…
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WordCamp UK 2012 – Day 2
It is the second day of the WordPress conference in sunny Edinburgh – all week the weather forecast had been predicting a wet weekend! I have posted some photos of the venue on clivecatton.co.uk, there are also some sunset shots from the campsite last night. Today’s sessions include The really useful plug-ins Accessibility Considered design
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WordCamp UK Edinburgh 2012 – bits and pieces
Tony Smith making the opening address to the conference – and “discussing” hash tags! Here are some of the sessions I am attending today: eCommerce EU Cookie Law WordPress Mobile Security Kieran (below) gave a great presentation about security.
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WordCamp UK Edinburgh 2012
I have been posting on my site about the Conference – see the blog entry here.
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The UK’s Largest WordPress Conference
At Octagon we support a number of clients who operate WordPress websites – including donating time and resources to several local clubs to help them with their WordPress sites. I also run my own blog and website using WordPress. So this weekend I am going to attend the national WordPress conference – WordCamp Edinburgh 2012…
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Broken Laptop
Not only do we provide support for a range of clients across Lincolnshire but we provide support for our own office systems. I had a problem at the weekend – my laptop broke down. Although this has caused me some problems and rescheduling – it was not a huge problem. My backup and recovery plan…
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Sunday Checks
When we left yesterday afternoon we had set up and logged in all the user’s PCs – so this morning I have been running checks on the operation of the system. All is working as expected except for one small issue with BT Broadband but they have assured us that this will be fixed by…
