Mutantpc goes Wordpress - not

After a week of building a Wordpress Theme and another week playing around with the WordPress functions, I've gone back to the way I know best - Coding using Notepad.

It's not that there's anything wrong with WordPress, it's very good in lots of way's, I just began to think I had more control using Notepad than using the WordPress web interface. For anyone wanting to regularly change the look of their site or who doesn't want to hand code it, it's ideal.

I recommend Wordpress as it's feature rich but I guess if I compared it to riding bikes, I'd rather be on an old Triumph than a hi-tech superbike with all the bells and whistles.

World tour heads to Canada!

My on going world tour gets underway again with a trip to Canada on the 30th April.

My friend in Canada has sent me the itinerary. Obviously it's an oversight on her part that she's forgotten ...

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Give Up Yer Aul Sins

My first effort at putting a You Tube movie on MutantPC and quite surprisingly I was able to get it to validate after a couple of hours.

Based on the original recordings taken by Peig Cunningham in Dublin schoolrooms from the 1960’s, (subsequently re-discovered and released by EMI record) this film dramatises the event ...

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Zen Garden submission

Over a year ago I submitted a web site to Zen Garden, the original and, in my opinion, best css showcase gallery site.

The idea behind Zen Garden is to use the downloadable css and html to build a web site. The challenge is that you may modify the css in any way you wish, but not the html. Not as simple as it ...

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Swiss Moto 2008 - Zürich

I spent three days in Switzerland this week on business, not much time to do anything apart from work but I did manage to go to the opening day of the Swiss-Moto 2008 bike show for a few hours.

Following the link will take you to a javascript gallery where you can see lots of jolly nice Harleys and other bikes....

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Jesus - the great physician

I got chatting to a down and out bloke today, a five minute conversation and we went our seperate ways.

Thinking about it later I began to reflect on Jesus and who he chose to mix with when he walked the earth. Not for Him those who considered themselves righteous before God, rather he sought those who society shunned for whatever reason ...

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