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Game of Thrones
Well now Sean Bean has done his turn as Lord Eddard Stark and the literate masses are consuming a massively simplified and watered down version of the series I started reading when it was A Game of Thrones back in ’96, I’m not sure I’m interested any more. The books have gone off the boil a little since GRRM lost his way in 2000 and had to rethink the progression of the series. Originally he had decided to come back to the action 5 years later when the characters had all developed and learnt the skills necessary to fight off the white walkers but it didn’t work and so began a tortuous 11 years of rewriting the book, splitting it into 2 and generally getting sidetracked. Sean Beans emotional bottom lip quivering Eddard Stark … Read entire article »
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WordPress Security
I attended the Cybermummy 11 conference today and thought it would be a good idea to go to the WordPress session. I like WordPress and always take any given opportunity to learn more. Some (ironic) points about security were mentioned. If you want to check out my parent blog, it’s called Daddacool. It didn’t start off well when the presenter warned us all off 123-reg for hosting. Whilst this site is hosted with Dataflame, another of our sites, Mummy Reviews is hosted with 123-reg and aside from one hacking issue, they’ve been brilliant. Good value for money in terms of bandwidth and storage too. I did learn something though. Of particular use was the section on plugins that covered a couple that I will probably use. The first of these is a … Read entire article »
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