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Is WordPress Slowing My Site Down?

Is WordPress Slowing My Site Down?

I noticed on my ping­dom stats recently that this site has been slow­ing down recently. But why? Is it Word­Press? Some plu­gins? Time for research!

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Southport, New Year’s Day 2010

Southport, New Year’s Day 2010

First out­ing with the polar­ising fil­ter given to me for Xmas by my friend and col­league James and decided to wander up to South­port for the after­noon.  We were rewar­ded with a beau­ti­ful sun­set that the fil­ter really helped add punch to the skies.  Down­sides of the day?  I think I’ve lost the use of […]

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Iceland In Winter

Iceland In Winter

I expec­ted more ice, it has to be said.  I also packed my thermals and it turned out to be warmer than home.  But, I also know how bit­terly cold it can get in coun­tries like this in Winter even if the ther­mo­meter doesn’t show it as look­ing so bad — driv­ing rain, strong winds […]

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Of WordPress Training and Learning

Over at Inter­con­nect IT, where I work, we’ve found that demand for our Word­Press Train­ing Courses has shot up over the past year or so.  And it’s cer­tainly inter­est­ing to see where the work comes from.
Curi­ously, it’s very polar­ised — we either work with smal­ler one man band com­pan­ies like Jason Nevin who runs a house […]

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Rainy Days in Liverpool

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A wee pic­ture from Liverpool.

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Liverpool Skyline

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This is the view from our new office in Liv­er­pool, right now.  Well, a few minutes ago.
I con­sider myself very lucky to have this just behind my desk and it has to rate as the best view of any office I’ve worked in.  You’d think the office would be very expens­ive, but it’s not, thanks to […]

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Oulton Park Trackday With GTDC

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After two years of going nowhere near a race cir­cuit while I con­cen­trated on build­ing up the busi­ness, I finally got the Elise nicely fettled by Phoenix Motor­s­port in Accring­ton and got out with the Gold Track Driv­ing Club.

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Argh! Spiders!

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To my great shame, I’ve allowed the cob­webs to build up some­what dur­ing renov­a­tion work.
That’s going to have to stop, because today I just saw some­thing scary.  An entire spider fam­ily, with big mummy spider sit­ting in the middle.  O_0

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Old Reel to Reel Tapes

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Found these in the gar­age and have popped them on eBay. Love the old style designs — so simple by today’s stand­ards. Easy to repro­duce too.
Also real­ised just how many bands from this era were called “The” some­thing or other.
How things change…

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Photoblog is No More!

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Some­times… you just have to tidy up, and finally I got around to dump­ing the old pho­tob­log sec­tion of the site and integ­rat­ing it in here.

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