Blogging - Sam Hardacre

Back to blogging

It's been a while since I last tried to define what this blog is about. Going back through the archives, it's moved around in it's focus as my own focus and interests have shifted over the years. It's even fallen into neglect with huge gaps of time between posts. I

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Slaying pedantry and trolls

Since December 2008, at least once a year, I listen to Stephen Fry's podcast on language. The subject in itself is fascinating but the delivery has all the rhythm, pace and in some sense even a melody making it a listening experience which rivals many a tune out there in

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Altering my backend

Those of you with keen eyes will have noticed a few subtle changes have taken place. Those with even keener eyes will see the source code is different giving a big clue about the biggest change that has taken place... I've moved over to WordPress. For years I've avoided it.

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Ideas of March

Pretty much every day while eating lunch, I spend some time trawling my Twitter stream and going through my Delicious network for things of interest to check out. This particular lunchtime, I came across a post by Drew McLellan expressing his support of an idea spawned by Chris Shiflett, going

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Oh hai journal

For the last year or so I've been using this site to experiment with design, giving each entry a unique look. When I first started out doing it, I knew it was going to be a time consuming task to publish a post so I resigned myself to writing at