Well, Richard’s fix got over the ridiculous Optus cable internet issues we’ve been having accessing international sites… until this morning when, oops, it got turned off. So, back to direct connections I went, and sure enough, come 12:30PM (for 30-40 minutes) pretty much every international site I’ve tried to access is unaccessible (including gmail – …
Author Archives: James
Lulz
Oh, do come on, I thought I’d really reached the pinnacle of contrition on occasions over the last few years but this is just too funny :) “We have learnt many valuable lessons during this process and would like to apologise for the way the transition period was handled.” You’re not wrong – come on …
Easter holidays now in the US?
So, is it Easter holiday time now in the US… just this week or two weeks or does it vary all round?
Not content with just creating new users?
Well, we’ve just added another feature to Edublogs that allows you to add up to 15 users at one time to your blog (and you can give them each a different roles too). Neato huh :) If you’re an Edublogs user go to Users > Add Users to have a play!
Funny names :)
How many of the following UK startups (as listed by TC) would you say have pretty silly names? • Groupspaces – Can forgive this one, just • Tioti – Surely there must be better 5 letter .coms around • Exabre – Erm • Coull – Sounds painful • Zogix – Yay, a Z • Byteplay …
Um, ‘upgrade’ to MT :D
Heh, I worked with MT for a whole year at theage.com.au and basically the only thing they have going for themselves is static html… which of course Super Cache does for WP very nicely (so I really wishthey’d shut up about that bit – it makes our clients nervous and means we have t say …
Big… no… Huge new Edublogs feature
This is a big one, now teachers can easily create and manage student blogs, straight from their dashboard. Like, w00t! Huge props to Andrew on this feature, in case you didn’t know, Andrew’s our new CTO and he rocks da house.
Lay off Jimmy Wales
Am getting annoyed with all this shit flying around about Jimmy Wales. I met him, allbeit briefly, at an education.au event last year – heard him speak and had the chance to chat to him really briefly. To be honest, I was all prepared to not like him… to find him arrogant (especially as Education …
Edublogs now has Mandigo with custom headers
w00t :) Check out Mr Bishop using it in some stylee. Am extremely chuffed that one of my buddies from school is now digging Edublogs!
Buddypress
Reminds me of what happened to WPMU roundabout 3 years ago. Hopefully it’ll be just as significant. Means we might have to look again at a couple of things ;) But all for the better I reckon.