I just uploaded a rather large quantity of photos to http://photos.waterpigs.co.uk/photos/list
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I am a professional luthier. I make excellent acoustic and electric instruments in Devon, UK. Learn More...
Is this the best source of Hurdy Gurdy sheet music on the web? Only one way to Find Out...
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Based in Devon, UK, I am a luthier and web developer by trade. I also do other things.
I’m an avid musician and play the Accordion, Mountain Dulcimer, Hurdy Gurdy and iPad.
As well as being a musical instrument catalogue, WaterPigs.co.uk is my identity hub on the web. I post content here and it gets sent out to twitter, facebook, flickr etc — all of which link back to the original content here. This results in maximum social interaction with me still owning and maintaining an archive of content.
If you like the sound of this idea, learn more at the indieweb wiki. To learn more about how WaterPigs.co.uk works and what I want to do in the future, check out the Roadmap and my other metaposts
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I just uploaded a rather large quantity of photos to http://photos.waterpigs.co.uk/photos/list
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I’ve been having this problem with OpenPhoto which resulted in having over 90,000 records in my tags table.
To fix this problem, simply run this sql:
ALTER IGNORE TABLE `database name`.`prefix_tag` ADD UNIQUE `unique` ( `id` )
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@soundcloud @ustream please stop making me fake my UA string in order to view non flash content.
If you’re going to provide html5 representations of a resource, offer them as standard and fall back to flash, don’t UA sniff.
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Three things every person in the web business should do.
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deletes driving theory practise apps moves road sign reference to some subfolder
Theory down, practical to go.
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Some great tips on designing for TV screens: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/tv/device-considerations/designing-for-tv/display-diagnostics
Actually the whole Gel thing is worth reading.
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Great tip for learning UK driving theory: Follow @highwaycodegb on Twitter.
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Listening to Big Web Show interviews. None of peoples voices match what I expected!
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Big thanks to Neil Brook (http://www.hurdy-gurdy.org.uk/) for his Gurdy setup help!
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Woah. Flickr’s new uploadr is nice
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I got the first note out of my work in progress Gurdy today. Very happy. It’ll be ready in a few days.
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Nice to hear a song about luthiers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8dFohVOJEM
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The new Kipling ad music sounds very much like the wendigo by Steve Tyler
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I wonder if this’ll pop up on Identica? If it does, I’ll be very happy.
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@boagworld @idiot “Want to get on better with clients? Stop throwing your font-weight around”
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@boagworld’s ‘Partnership of Experts’ should be required listening, especially for young web people
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How to alter Markdown to enable parsing of plain links.
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The more I read about HTML tables, the more I feel using them for layout wasn't doing them justice :|
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@scrunchup I keep on losing web design work on the premise that I don't do it for free — any advice on how to fix this?
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Most unhelpful ‘how it works’ page ever: https://browserid.org/about
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Decided to use OpenPhoto for #indieweb photos. F1R5T P05T http://barnaby.openphoto.me/p/1
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What on earth do spam twitter accounts hope to gain from following me?!
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In which I present some pretty gimmicky styling
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JScript has conditional comments too. Is use of this advisable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_comment
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Announcing my meta tag
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Wand Testing
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Guidelines I follow for writing my musings posts
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http://calepin.co/ looks like a brilliant no-effort intro #indieweb. Your content is stored on DropBox (so you still own it) but I don't think there are any syndications options (might be twitter?), but you can use your own domain, and you have access to all your content.
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Most irritated @technorati - apparently my blog isn't a blog, and there's no way of appealing. I posted an otherwise meaningless verification post for that? Not impressed.
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On why WYSIWYG is bad, what would be better and how to fix it for cheap
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This looks almost awesome enough to make me switch to FF for web dev stuff: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/07/tilt-visualize-your-web-page-in-3d/
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I've recently started using these styles for adding automargins (margic = magic + margin) to floated items:
.floatLeft.margic { margin-right: 1em; }
.floatRight.margic { margin-left: 1em; }
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Protip: Put a piece of paper/card over your graphics tablet to get that gritty paper feel
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??? the marquee tag has JS methods?! Was it not bad enough already?
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Flook have to be one of the best folk bands I've ever heard. I wish I had been able to see them live
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I figured out the reason my gurdy is taking so long to build: I make a mockup of it every five minutes http://flic.kr/p/bK5zyR
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TheOnion.com devs have clearly never heard of progressive enhancement - their '5 page per day max' limit only works with javascript turned on.
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Argh, coming up with a solid file upload backend that will scale to indefinite file types is tricky #indieweb
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Reading da Vinci http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/9/0/29904/ - seems he really had it in for poets!
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Tips for #indieweb baby naming: check domain/short domain/twitter account availability
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Tips for Web Development in the back of a a Car - In which I offer some tips on writing code in the back of a car.
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I finally got a MIDI controller! No more reliance on my stylophone for synth controls.
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In which I claim my blog on Technorati. Nothing to see here folks.
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Changed to reflect enabled Facebook syndication.
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Something I learnt just now: HTML <ins> and <del> have datetime attrs for keeping track of changes. This is handy as I've been wondering about those for a while. Interestingly they have a `cite` attr too (to a URL describing changes made) which sounds perfect for the ID of an Activity
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Test post to FaceBook - In which I see if FaceBook Syndication has worked
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Clarified a couple of points.
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In which I discuss the social web, what’s wrong with it and how you can fix it for cheap
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In which I try to make sense of updates, statuses, text notes, tweets and the like
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Excellent Customer Service - Today was the first time in months I was actually impressed with a support service
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In which I outline how WaterPigs.co.uk works and the future
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Good post today. Machine heads, viola pegs, an ipad usb thing and web project payment. The machine heads were delivered in a cat food box - a little unorthodox.
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ATOM implied Activitystream added and submitted to technorati. Starting to feel more like an #indieweb site now!
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Deliberating over #indieweb backend database structure. I’m getting there, slowly.