http://michael-baker.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:21:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It came to me in a dream this morning.  We have evolved to recognise and respond appropriately to threats.  Those who did not are no longer with us.  How this relates to Asperger's and Sustainability I'll get to at the end of this article. Most of us recognise and respond to ... http://michael-baker.com/blog/2011/07/01/on-evolution-aspergers-and-sustainability/ There was a short item on today's Feedback on BBC Radio 4 on the term "forward/slash". Here is my reply: The error in Mr Love's comments on today's Feedback needs to be corrected.  Mr Love stated "there is no such  thing as slash". It would be more correct to say "there is no ... http://michael-baker.com/blog/2010/07/16/to-slash-or-forwardslash-an-open-letter-to-bbc-feedback/ Introduction One of my distractions for the past couple of years has been playing Series of Tubes. This is a networking puzzle gadget by Wei-Hwa Huang that can be be added to a Google personalised home page. Series of Tubes can also be played at http://weihwa-puzzles.appspot.com/gadgetpage?g=series_of_tubes. The Pieces - head, cross, tee, elbow ... http://michael-baker.com/blog/2009/11/26/series-of-tubes/ As another step towards getting out of the typo3 hosting business I have moved my website to a new host. In the process I have had to re-install WordPress and all of the plugins that I use. If you would like to know more about my experiences, leave a comment and I ... http://michael-baker.com/blog/2009/09/07/website-moved-wordpress-reinstalled/ There are an alarming number of Wordpress Twitter Plugins to choose from, and an almost equaly alarming number of best Wordpress Twitter Plugins Lists.  [My appologies for adding to them].In an attempt to locate a Twitter plugin to add to blogs I administer I went searching on the Wordpress plugins ... http://michael-baker.com/blog/2009/08/27/yet-another-top-20-wordpress-twitter-plugins-list/ In preparation for my planned exit from providing typo3 hosting, I have moved all of my own content out of typo3. Other than changes to page URLs, the major change has been moving all of my news articles (such as this) to my blog. Once I have found new homes for my ... http://michael-baker.com/blog/2009/08/24/moving-website-from-typo3/ A few months ago I installed Office 2007 and became totally unproductive. After a short while I started looking for anyway to setup Office 2007 with the classic User Interface that Office had had up until Office 2003. My prayers were answered when I found pschmid.net's Ribbon Customizer which comes in two ... http://michael-baker.com/blog/2009/01/18/taming-office-2007/ This is the first in a number of posts on how to tame Vista. Since being inflicted with Vista I've found several ways of making it behave in a sensible manner, but have forgotten what they were and how they were done. This series of posts on taming vista is ... http://michael-baker.com/blog/2009/01/18/taming-vista-default-folder-views/ According to the calculator at http://www.onlineidcalculator.com/ I'm digitally distinct. My score was 8/10 on Volume and 10/10 on relevance. As a result I'm permitted to show the rather hideous image on the right: While I don't like the image, and won't be putting it on my front page, it is gratifying ... http://michael-baker.com/blog/2009/01/07/digitally-distinct/ If you have any comments or questions about Simple Shortcodes, please leave a comment on this post. http://michael-baker.com/blog/2008/12/28/simple-shortcodes-support/