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my thoughts and ideas

At the moment I am trying to do just that. Convert an existing set of scripts to be a Wordpress plugin. I have done this before, but this time it seems to be taking forever, and I’m only on script 4 of about 15.
This could take a long, long time.

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Despite the threats of the hacker that defaced and deleted content on elfden normal service will be resumed. It may take a while to reset things up, but rest assured things will be up and running shortly.

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Every so often I write a small piece of code to help someone out. A while ago I wrote Mike Cherim a small plugin for Wordpress. He describes it as an Enhanced Pagination plugin.
I thought that it was about time that I release it, especially after he mentioned it in A WCAG 2.0 Implementation Site. [...]

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There are several of these about, and they all have similar functionality. But at present they all seem to rely on Javascript. Javascript should only be used to enhance, and shouldn’t be a requirement.
Hence I’m releasing eFont Size as a beta.
I’ve enabled this plugin on this site so that it can be tested, but ideally [...]

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I’ve wanted to do this for a while, but never found the time to write one from scratch. So I’ve been busily adapting Mike Cherim’s Beast Blog theme. Still a few things to sort out but I think I’m 90% of the way there.

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Today, in fact it was this evening, I had a phone call from the local Liberal Democrats. At least I hope it was them! The call went something like this:

Caller:
Can we be assured of your vote in the elections in May?
Me:
There are elections in May? is this local elections?
Caller:
there are and yes it is the [...]

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