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After winning a packet of Haribo for having the “most informative Skype mood message” during a recent 9 month project (you can imagine how exciting the other awards were…) I decided that it would be a good idea to continue the practice of updating all-and-sundry with my current location, the weather and my upcoming plans. I also, while musing on this, happened to notice that Skype now supports “rich” mood messages – meaning that you can use basic HTML to add bold and the like. Finally, being a bit of an Excel fan and a follower of Alex Schultz’s blog, I wondered how easy it would be to speak to the Skype API from Excel VBA.

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Ah no, I’ve gotten to the point where not only am I blogging, I’m blogging about writing tools for blogging. Do not read on unless you’re particularly interested in WordPress and Countdowns. <sigh> (more…)

I’ve been tinkering. I was grumbling about how bad sites’ own search engines generally are, and it occurred to me that it might actually be quite hard to make one work well. So I’ve started writing my own from first principles. (more…)

Finally given in and admitted that Flickr, with added Yahoo stability, is actually the best way to put my photos online.

It’s taking a long time to move all my travelling photos over, but I’m getting there.

And I might even transition by blog to Blogger, as there’s a nifty way to mirror it onto my hosting via FTP, I’ve been reading.

Have a look at my budding new gallery here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tcbutler/

Dammit, I hate people who trawl the Internet for cool stuff, then put it on their blog to look clever or something.

I overcame this hatred to share this with the world. It’s the Bible, in Lego. I’m a sucker for anything involving Lego, and this is just great. I’m not sure if it’s blasphemy, but it’s painstakingly done, and I like it.

The Brick Testament