I’ve been meaning to change the plugin I use for the contact page for some time now. I noticed some messages were coming in with [NONAME] and [NOEMAIL] and that just wasn’t right—the form wasn’t supposed to send me messages...
Topics: broomstick stuff, contact page, Google, Oakleaf Camp, plugins, Ripon, technology

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Yesterday was Day 10 of NaNoWriMo and I reached 25,992 words by the time I had to close up the laptop and go to my night class. I have to hit 50,000 words by midnight on November 30th. I’m well on course to achieve that number given I’ve been.
Topics: creative, extract, first draft, NaNoWriMo, novel in progress, preview, taster

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If it were stated baldly that a national British newspaper is running a daily campaign to destroy the career of a disabled man, highlighting his disability as an unacceptable weakness, no doubt much of the nation would be in uproar. And yet Gordon...
Topics: Facebook, Gordon Brown, Guardian, Labour, MySpace, news and politics, perspectives, political manipulation, Prime Minister, Rupert Murdoch, smear campaigns, tabloid press, The Sun

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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeI dubbed the Press Complaints Commission last week the Daily Mail Support Group, but it seems I was wrong to do so. The PCC’s generous and unquestioning patronage extends to News International’s flock of...
Topics: Daily Mail, Guardian, news and politics, News of the World

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Where new money is printed for greedy bankers to stash away.Image by BlatantNews.com via Flickr. Another £25bn to ’stimulate’ the economy? On top of the £175bn the Bank of England has already printed out of thin air in a vain bid to get the.
Topics: bank charges, Bank of England, depression, economy, news and politics, perspectives, quantitative easing, recession

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