Blog of an Open Mind

OK the title was search engine fodder but Open Mind Commerce went live last week after almost a year in development and it’s a massive project for the business… Special offers went up on all the forums (some bright spark will probably notice a similarity) so lets see how this works out…

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Something caught my eye this morning, but after I had removed the arm of my glasses from my eyeball I returned to the BBC website to continue reading about a new social networking service called Bliin (who the hell thinks these names up??) In a nutshell it uses the GPS capabilities of the newer mobile [...]

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OK I’ll hold my hands up. I had one cigarette at about 9pm last night. I know it’s no excuse but I put it down to the fact that I put my patch on at midnight last night and therefore wasted 7 odd hours of it by sleeping. So I waited until 7am this morning [...]

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I downloaded Skype the other day. Ooooooh congrats Phil I hear you sarcastically cheer, welcome to the 21st century! Well the reason I was hesitant was two fold. a) I didn’t feel I needed it and b) it was developed by the same people who bought us Kazaa which was a file sharing program loaded [...]

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I was curious today, don’t ask me why just one of those moods, what the world’s oldest domain name was. I thought it would be interesting to see who actually got in there first. After a bit of googling I came across this top 100 list that showed the registration dates of the 100 oldest [...]

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I just cannot find a decent image gallery plugin for the latest version of WordPress. All I want t to do is create the thumbnails and link to the main images using Lightbox. Not too much to ask is it? If you find one, tell me before I punch the server. That probably won’t help [...]

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Got the Vista style sorted and it looks flipping brilliant! Just click any of the thumbnails up there ^^^^^^^^ under the title to change the wallpaper. Now lets see if I can break this sucker

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To coin a phrase from Del boy… Just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress and it just keeps getting better and better. The upgrade instructions and procedure are flawless and the old blog was quite an old version so I was twitching a little… Software manufacturers could learn a lot from these guys. And [...]

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I am very pleased to announce we are now accepting applications for the Open Mind Hosting affiliate scheme. The scheme is due to launch in full in Jan. 2006 but you can sign up now and we’ll send you further details as they become available. More info here: http://www.openmindhosting.co.uk/uk-web-hosting-affiliates.cfm

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