Category: WebDev & Code
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Goodbye MovableType, hello WordPress
Finally I’ve got around to updating my blog from MovableType to WordPress. If you’re looking at this today (and maybe for another month.. or year) you’ll see the template is still the default WordPress template. Eventually I’ll update it but for now at least the content from all the old posts is still visible. The…
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Mail merge onto a PDF background
Some days, I love computers. Days like today, where we want send a mailshot to 900 past customers. I got the address list from our MS Access database. I got a PDF of the artwork. What I wanted to do was create a mail merge using the PDF as a background. Libreoffice/Openoffice didn’t seem to…
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The joy of being a forum/newsgroup moderator
I like to be helpful. It makes me feel good. When I post lots of technical questions to a community I’ll look to see if I can offer something in return for others. When the spree group asked for volunteer anti-spam moderators I was happy to volunteer. One side effect of that was being added…