All articles from: March, 2009

Palenque, Mayan Ruins

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Palenque town itself is a rather drab place, but the ruins, deep in jungle, are as spec­tac­u­lar as you might expect. It’s also the per­fect place to feel like Indi­ana Jones for a day…

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San Cristobal de las Casas to Pelenque

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I’m never sure if it’s a great idea to save money on hotels by using overnight buses. It is, how­ever, a very effect­ive use of time. Just so long as you can get some sleep. The bus to San Cris­to­bal was cer­tainly as com­fort­able as was needed — we could only get […]

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Planes, Trains and Taxis to Mexico

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It felt like we’d been trav­el­ling for 36hrs… and we had. Tired, dehyd­rated and crabby, reach­ing Oax­aca and actu­ally get­ting a proper meal and a comfy bed was actu­ally some­thing of a highlight…

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Tim Ferriss and why I don’t like his emotional blackmail

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I appre­ci­ate, right away, that by writ­ing about Tim Fer­riss I’m going to give him the oxy­gen of pub­li­city. And what fol­lows may just be a small-minded rant. I don’t know — feel free to tell me if I’m wrong by commenting.…

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PHP Serialization Fix for WordPress Migrations (& other applications like Expression Engine)

Seri­al­iz­a­tion of data loaded into an SQL table is a dread­ful thing and makes Word­Press migra­tions harder than they should be, but it hap­pens and so we must deal with it. I’ve knocked up a rough and ready bit of code which does its best to resolve the problem.

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Wordcamp UK 2009 to be in Cardiff

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If you’re fol­low­ing the vari­ous Word­Camp lists, you’ll already know about this event.  But many won’t.
If you use Word­Press pro­fes­sion­ally, or with a great deal of enthu­si­asm, Word­Camps are a great way to meet with other users, developers and design­ers who really under­stand the sys­tem.  There are use­ful present­a­tions, social events and activ­it­ies based around the event.
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