Tim on February 11th, 2009

Yet another programme on the BBC this evening featuring Twitter (One Show, BBC1). This time, Gyles Brandreth and Richard Bacon. Gyles was interviewing David Lammy MP to find out why he uses Twitter.
I checked Mr Brandreth’s Twitter profile. He joined a couple of days ago and it had but 5 tweets.
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Tim on December 20th, 2008

To quote Victor Meldew: “I don’t believe it!”. Having thought all was well in DNS-land last night, I checked again this morning to find that it had all reverted to the previous state.
Why? It’s beginning to annoy me.
I’ve once again updated the nameservers and have fingers and toes crossed. If it carries on, I will [...]

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Tim on December 20th, 2008

To date I’ve been using Posterous as the blogging platform for my first contribution to the social media world. I like its simplicity, but with simplicity comes limitation; hence my move to WordPress.
I decided to host my own instance of WordPress on my virtual private server since it will provide me with more flexibility (and [...]

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