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Managing Information Technology for a UK based Small/Medium Enterprise - With a bit of real life thrown in for good measure.

Entries from September 2007

You just can’t make this stuff up

September 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I dragged my sick self out of bed last night to attend my first week of Uni … if you know where this is going bear with me … the pay off is worth it.
 Anyway, my tonsilitis had been playing up for a day or two which is how I ended up in bed at this point. [...]

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Sore throat - inflamed tonsils

September 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments

It’s starting to get a bit of a habit these days but today I’m feeling quite a bit under the weather.

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Taking Wordpress for a spin

September 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I’ve been working on my own 3 column template for my Wordpress Blog. The systematic deconstruction of my old Blog The IT Managers Journal and subsequent building on my new Blog (www.jasonslater.co.uk) I am finding surprisingly therapeutic. A number of things that I’d left or pencilled for sorting out at a future date are all going under [...]

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Low Carb Day 5

September 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments

It’s Friday and day 5 of my latest low carb regime. Last night Sharon cooked up a mean mince dinner and for the first time I wasn’t immediately on the hunt for dessert afterwards.
I’ve had my daily intake of bacon and sausages with a Coke Zero and am feeling nicely full at the moment, and [...]

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Finding the right self-host Blog platform - what are the options?

September 21st, 2007 · 5 Comments

As part of my ongoing Blog revitalisation, one of the improvements is to move to a self-hosted Blog platform to give me maximum flexibility with layout and design. I guess the first step here is to trawl the Internet to find suitable platforms. My current web host at www.jasonslater.co.uk and www.monkandhisitjunk.com is IIS with ASP.NET [...]

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