The Story of Saint Devote: Monaco’s Guardian Angel
It’s Monday 27 January today, and as that’s a day many of the more miserable people in Britain call “Blue Monday” (the last Monday of …
Blog Posts
This is the “blog posts” category, it is for blog posts which are generic in nature and not specifically about anything that can legitimately be categorised, so pretty much, most items that are published.
Snowfall Deactivated for 2024
It’s New Year’s Eve tomorrow and, although the Christmas decorations don’t come down for around another week, I’ve deactivated the snowfall plugin from this website, …
Is the Pineapple Pizza Checkbox Contempt?
After the preliminary injunction against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg the other day ordered them to remove a checkbox preventing “WP Engine and their affiliates” from …
The WPEngine Preliminary Injunction Against Automattic: A Detailed Breakdown
As a long-time WordPress user and advocate of open-source software, I’ve followed the recent legal proceedings between WPEngine and Automattic with keen interest. The case …
Helpful Content Update Sank This Battleship! (for now)
As I’ve run a series of not-so-helpful content based experiments in this domain over the years, the organic web traffic has ground to a halt …
Q1 2024 Changes to This Website
Like everyone since the beginning of the internet, I neglect to pay much attention to this, my personal website. In the past few years, it’s …
What does the insult “melt” mean?
Asking an AI, here is what the answer to this question is. People use the word “melt” as an insult. What is it’s derivation? Are …
Interesting Thoughts from a Resigning Googler, Ian Hickson
I was shared a link to this blog post from the now former Googler, Ian Hickson, who described the changes at the Chocolate Factory (leave …
Are You the Robin Scott from BBC Look North who bought Welcome to Yorkshire?
I know this is a weird flex, but I am the same Robin Scott who was on BBC Look North (Yorkshire) on the evening of …
Headshot Image Credits
You may have noticed that I’ve put up better headshot images for my avatar on social media (those limited channels I actually use) and this …