Rob's Blog

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  • Text copying disabled

    I was writing an email to a friend, and tried to copy and paste a URL, but all that get pasted was “Text copying disabled”. I thought maybe the site was preventing copying, so I disabled Javascript and tried again. Same problem. I tried copying some text within a text editor. Same problem. Eventually I […]

  • Yuwie – One Month In

    For those who don’t know, Yuwie is a new(ish) social networking site which shares a percentage of their ad revenue with its users. Sounds good in theory, so I thought I’d give it a try. Yuwie seems to be based on the MySpace model, with each use having a profile, a photo gallery, a blog […]

  • New WordPress Version & New Theme

    I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 today, using the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. I had a few problesm. The main one was although it asks for FTP details so that it can change the permissions, there are many files it doesn’t. The second problem I had was I didn’t read the bit that says “Click here […]

  • Bring Back Theme Tunes

    I’d like to add my vote to Weebl‘s campaign to Bring Back TV Theme Tunes, and also use it as an excuse to link to their great theme tune for Lost.

  • T-Mobile

    After discovering The Mobile Outlet had gone bust, we decided to ring T-Mobile to reduce the tariff Abby was on since she doesn’t use all her minutes. It says on the back of every bill we’ve received “You can move to a lower priced plan after your six months”, so we assumed this would be […]

  • I’m Dreaming of a White Easter

    I woke up on Easter morning to find a good covering of snow, which was a bit of a surprise! Unfortunately we had a bit of a lie-in, so a lot of it had melted by the time I got out to get some pics. There’s a few in my gallery though, including some of […]

  • Use your WordPress Blog as an OpenID

    I read about OpenID a while ago, and decided now I have a blog, I should get myself an ID to let me log in to the various sites that support it. I assumed there would be a WordPress plugin that let me do this, and I quickly found and installed WP-OpenID. To my disappointment […]

  • The Mobile Outlet Gone Bust

    In September last year, Abby bought a phone from The Mobile Outlet offering completely free line rental in the form of cashback. The first cashback was due in January, but we heard nothing from the claim. I discovered today that Mobile Matters (UK) Ltd (T/A The Mobile Outlet) went into administration on 15 Feb. We’ve […]

  • The Outdoors Show

    I went to The Outdoors Show at the NEC Birmingham on Saturday. I had a pretty good time. I was a bit disappointed about the small amount of kayaking stands, but the others were pretty good. There was a fun looking high-ropes course, quite a few climbing walls, and a temporary cave, but they seemed […]

  • Get paid to search!

    There are loads of cashback sites around these days, offering money for doing things like completing surveys, shopping, or social networking, but this is a new one on me: My Search Funds pays you to search the web! it uses Ask as its search engine, which seems pretty good (although I have to admit I […]