Awstats Plugin

Curioso’s awstats free WordPress plugin is just what I’ve been looking for to display Powweb’s Awstats on both my blogs, mainly Hold It Up For Ridicule, because it receives a lot of hits. I can’t get it to work yet, because I didn’t realise that I had to get my host to send me the [...]

Tony Blair the Wilderness Years 18

Tony “Bono” Blair is a bit confused. He believes he is the famed British Prime Minister of the same name, deposed after winning a third term. Things begin to look up for Tony when a letter arrives offering a position with McCreedie construction. Thinking he is taking over as CEO of a powerful NASDAQ company, [...]

How Can One War Grave Be Lost For Fifty Years?

Denver, my neighbour here in Westbury, Wiltshire in the UK was telling me today that he’s off to Cannes in France at the weekend. The second world war grave of his 19 year old brother has been discovered by a Westbury man who visited Cannes war graves, and wrote down the names on every war [...]

What the Hell is Tagging and Tag Clouds in Blogs All About?

As a hopeless non-programmer in techieland, I’m finding this tagging stuff more difficult than anything I’ve done. It doesn’t make sense. But then today I found Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin for Dummies, and things started to work. There are a lot of contradictory options in the configuration. For example, I had technorati and delicious [...]

Tony Blair the Wilderness Years 17

Tony “Bono” Blair is a bit confused. He believes he is the famed British Prime Minister of the same name, deposed after winning a third term. Things begin to look up for Tony when a letter arrives offering a position with McCreedie construction. Thinking he is taking over as CEO of a powerful NASDAQ company, [...]

Nature Notes: Migrating Birds

It’s only June 26th, and I just saw the first flock of migrating birds flying over here in Westbury, Wiltshire in a huge V shape . They were flying from east to west. In Reading, where I lived until last year, the first flock of migrating birds would appear around about the Womad weekend, at [...]

Sheffield Floods June 25th 2007

The June 25th 2007 floods in these YouTube videos are the kind of floods that would be unusual in Mediterranean cities like Alicante which have flash flood relief systems in place. When I visit friends in Alicante and go shopping, they always say if it rains very hard, don’t go to the harbour because that’s [...]

Tony Blair the Wilderness Years 16

Tony “Bono” Blair is a bit confused. He believes he is the famed British Prime Minister of the same name, deposed after winning a third term. Things begin to look up for Tony when a letter arrives offering a position with McCreedie construction. Thinking he is taking over as CEO of a powerful NASDAQ company, [...]

Reading Waterfest 2007

I went to Reading Waterfest at the weekend. It’s all about the traditional folk music and dancing associated with canals in the UK, held on the site of the former Reading Abbey beside the Kennet and Avon Canal in Berkshire, England. This is my first post with Ultimate Tag Warrior. I already have lots of [...]

Meeting Mr Sheep – Tony Blair in the Wilderness 15

Tony “Bono” Blair is a bit confused. He believes he is the famed British Prime Minister of the same name, deposed after winning a third term. Things begin to look up for Tony when a letter arrives offering a position with McCreedie construction. Thinking he is taking over as CEO of a powerful NASDAQ company, [...]