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By David Hollingworth, 14/01/2010 5:20 pm

Here are some great tips from Darren Prose on keeping your blog running. A few lessons in here that I could certainly take note of…

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By David Hollingworth, 19/09/2009 1:07 pm

I’ve finally decided to tear down my photo blog. Not from a lack of interest in photography; but because the comments section was a complete spam magnet. I was getting hundreds of spam comments every day and while Akismet was picking up most of these it wasn’t catching all of them, which meant more administration overhead than I was prepared to put up with.

So from now on anything I consider to be worth posting will have to go into a post  here. Or I might even open a Flickr account…

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By David Hollingworth, 23/05/2009 5:02 pm

This is not an easy post to write.

For the last 14 months I’ve been running my own business, Computer Troubleshooters – West Cork. Unfortunately, despite all my best efforts, this simply isn’t paying the bills, let alone putting food on the table. So I’ve decided to wind the company up and look for a fulltime position again.

For me this is a bit like trying to change gear in the middle of taking a sharp corner rather too fast. Life is lurching rapidly towards the curb whilst I’m struggling to keep it under control, not really sure in which direction I’m headed.

One thing I’m hoping is that this post will allow me to transition out of Computer Troubleshooters mode and back into “prospective employee” mode.

At least I should have more time for posting to this blog

PS. The business is for sale if you’re interested. It’s a franchise business and you’d get it at a fraction of the cost of setting up from scratch. Drop me a line if you’re interested.

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By David Hollingworth, 03/12/2008 9:23 pm

I’ve been a keen birder, twitcher if you will, from an early age. Whilst I don’t have much time in the field at present I’ve decided to embark on a project that I’ve had on the back burner ever since I first go into web applications about 10 years ago; a web based birders log.

So BirdSpotter.org has been born. Check out the blog on the site for announcements and information about design and features. If there’s anything you’d like to see then leave a comment over on the blog and I’ll add it to the list.

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By David Hollingworth, 17/08/2008 12:27 am

Thanks to my new Sony Ericsson K770i I’ve just discovered the delights of photo blogging.

What is photo blogging? My definition is: ‘the ability to upload and publish online a series of seemingly unconnected and probably meaningless photographs’.

OK, that’s a bit cynical I know. More sensibly; as a blog is a written online journal so a photo blog is an online journal created with photographs. My new K770i has a really neat feature that allows me to publish a photo taken on the phone straight to a blog. Unfortunately it doesn’t support Wordpress at present so I can’t publish direct to this blog. I’ve created a completely separate photo blog over at blogspot.

Enjoy.