Tomorrow, Saturday 7 June, marks the first anniversary of disassociated's migration to the WordPress CMS. It's been quite a ride, which incredibly, almost saw disassociated behave like a blog (though I still prefer to call it a website) for a time. Three posts made (thanks Kurt :) the front page of Digg (subsequently melting down disassociated's erstwhile web server), there was a ... Read full entry

When drafting posts, especially those you are working on over a period of days, using the timestamp feature, to set a future date and time for the post to publish, can make a handy hedge against accidental posting. Any future date is fine, as there's nothing worse than clicking the "publish" button when you meant to click the "save" button, and posting what is a work-in-progress draft instead. These sorts of ... Read full entry

Writing Tip: Be Conversational. While aimed at bloggers, Meryl's tip can be applied more broadly. As I write this blog entry, I hear these words in my head and it sounds conversational. To verify you're writing conversationally, read your writing out loud and see how it flows. When I stumble or feel awkward during the reading, then it's a sign to make edits. Letters and emails should be written in a ... Read full entry

The last two weeks have been a tad frustrating in the technology department. Or, more specifically with Wordpress. I honestly feel I have lost two eight hour days waiting for my WP posts to save this past fortnight. Two days is a lot of time to try and "replace"... Today I wrote two posts (see below). Maybe 90 minutes in total was spent actually writing both of them. As I said ... Read full entry