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Blog Upgrade (Finally!)

It had to happen but has taken far too long. I’ve finally upgraded my WordPress sites to 3.9. Hopefully future upgrades will happen a lot quicker

Stay Secure! The Latest Recommendations for IT Security

Individuals and enterprises do not understand the value of their Information nor how to protect it. This article attempts to reveal simple and practical ways to protect IT assets and outlines some of the latest thinking and tools from industry experts.

Not a good day to travel!

But a good day to work from home! Freezing fog reduces the M1 to a car park. Outside our house in Sheffield the pavements and roads are coated in layers of ice making it lethal to go anywhere until you get to the main roads. Thank goodness for the remote working facilities provided by the NHS Commissioning Board! Saves me a dangerous journey from Sheffield to Leeds. <dd class="wp-caption-dd"> Great visibility on the M1!

Recommended iPad Apps – 2012-10

Here is my list of recommended apps for business users on the iPad. The iPad is a great business tool but is certainly very limited without adding some additional tools. This is a list of the ones I recommend for day-to-day use. GoodReader – $4.99 This is the best all-rounder. It is a document viewer with good sync and connectivity options including the usual DropBox, etc. but also with SharePoint and custom servers.

Microsoft 64-bit Application Support (lack-of)

Microsoft’s 64-bit support is still sorely fragmented as we find out with a brand new laptop trying to access Microsoft SharePoint.

SSH Error: "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host"

Fixing up an SSH login error after moving to a new ISP. “ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host” is caused by the lack of a reverse DNS entry.

Site updated – Faster and better!

The upgrade of this blog from WordPress 3.3 to 3.4 on Dreamhost didn’t go as smoothly as planned. In fact it failed fairly spectacularly – unable to complete the required database upgrade. However, many clouds have silver linings. In this case it meant that I brought forward my plans to ditch the horribly slow hosting provided by Dreamhost in the USA and switch over to the new VPS provided by BHost in the UK.

Diigo Bookmarks 01/14/2012

<p class="diigo-description"> &#8220;XDI.ORG is an international non-profit public trust organization governing open public XRI and XDI infrastructure. XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) are open standards for digital identity addressing and trusted data sharing developed at OASIS, the leading XML e-business standards body. XRI and XDI infrastructure enables individuals and organizations to establish persistent, privacy-protected Internet identities and form long-term, trusted peer-to-peer data sharing relationships.&#8221; </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.

WordPress tweak to manage posts admin, filter and show custom field

Low-cost Information Management, Communications and Collaberation Tools

Make the WordPress visual editor content look more like the finished output

HTML Semantic Markup – What should I use?

Microsoft Word Wildcard and Regular Expression Search and Replace

REL attribute reference for HTML links

NOTE: This table may be incomplete <td valign="top" width="31%"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Description</span></span></strong> </td> <td valign="top" width="19%"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reference</span></span></strong> </td> <td valign="top" width="33%"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Notes</span></span></strong> </td> <td valign="top" width="31%"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Designates a substitute for the link&#8217;s context.</span></span> </td> <td valign="top" width="19%"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">[</span><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#ref-W3C.REC-html401-19991224#ref-W3C.REC-html401-19991224"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff; font-size: x-small;">W3C.REC-html401-19991224</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">]</span></span> </td> <td valign="top" width="33%"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span> </td> <td valign="top" width="31%"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Refers to an appendix.

New page added to blog: Privacy & Disclosure

Finally got round to properly publishing this page that declares the site’s privacy policies and disclosure of intent. This is also linked to from every page as per [EU “Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003”][1] and Google requirements. Also added an HTML 5 logo. [1]: http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications.aspx “External link to EU privacy requirements. Opens a new window.”