WordPress help – RTFM!

I’m in a bit of a curmudgeonly mood today (no change there, some might say ), and wandering round the WordPress forum hasn’t helped.
Why? Because as with a digital photography group of which I’m a member, asking for help seems to be the first resort, instead of the last, and the maxim RTFM* is [...]

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Dismal TV at Christmas…

Anyone noticed how abysmally crap terrestrial TV is – again – this Christmas?
Sky’s no better either. The problem is that there simply isn’t enough

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ESA feedback urgently needed…

ESA feedback is urgently required.
Do you suffer from COPD, any form of asthma, especially brittle asthma, bronchiectasis, or other respiratory illness? And do you, alternatively (or even as well), suffer from ME/CFS?
If you do, then I and my readers are in desperate need of information, so how would you like to share your experiences with [...]

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WTF?

A new survey has shown that poor eyesight can impair sporting ability. No, really? Nothing like stating the bleedin’ obvious, is there? And they got funding for this crap.

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Lies about the pandemic flu vaccine…

There’s an awful lot of bullshit and lunatic conspiracy theories on the Web about the flu vaccine, not least this egregious list of  vaccine “contents”:-
Mercury, Formaldehyde, Aluminium Phosphate, Aspartame, Human Fetal Tissue, Monkey Kidney & Lung Cells, MSG, Bovine Fetal Serum.
That list has been mendaciously cherry-picked from a whole range of different vaccines (minute amounts [...]

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Michael Jackson…

He was a sodding pop singer (not to mention a probable paedophile; after all, the estimated $20 million pay-off to Jordy Chandler’s family wasn’t the action of someone with nothing to hide). He wasn’t a major-league world statesman, or someone on the verge of finding a cure for cancer, or for Lindsay Lohan, so let’s [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 – faulty straight out of the box…

All is not well in IE8 world, and it falls at the very first hurdle – importing Bookmarks/Favourites. Though as you’ll see, it’s more a case that IE8 was actually lying to me. Doesn’t fill me with confidence.
I’ve just installed IE8 – purely for reference purposes – I operate an email advice service for people [...]

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Jade Goody, beatus?

Madeleine Bunting, in Monday’s Guardian, says “In bewildering times, Jade’s story of sacrifice offers us the ultimate reality”.
What sacrifice? It’s an absolutely absurd suggestion. Of course, and it should come as no surprise to any one, this idea was floated by Max Clifford a couple of weeks ago, also in the Guardian. What the hell [...]

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Drug side-effects and how to live with them…

…well, maybe.
Another gem from my search engine heap “Can co-codamol 30/500 f*** u up? (My asterisks – the only person allowed to swear here is me!) It’s also an excellent example of how NOT to put a question to Google. The correct form of words is quite simple

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Want to see your GP? He’s gone to Sainsbury’s…

Plans are, apparently under way for the opening of GP surgeries in 200 Sainsbury’s stores (see here – you’ll see a comment there that looks slightly familiar; it’s not plagiarism, it’s me!). How will that work, I wonder?
My main concern is that it might take GPs away from their normal surgeries. Getting an appointment is [...]

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