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Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

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13/03/15

Long time readers may remember my rant about the problems I had making a donation for charitable work in Africa because charities wouldn't let you donate and walk away clean. Not without jumping through a lot of hoops anyway.  read more ...

30/11/14

At the suggestion of Tea and Kittens (which is currently running a "Kitten Aid 2014" campaign) I tried to give a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières this morning as they seem to be doing good work, as ever, in Africa at the moment. But when I went to their donations page I was confronted with this:  read more ...

26/11/14

Stagecoach Cambus have finally introduced a carnet style scheme for travel on their buses using their Dayrider or Dayrider Plus tickets. The system is a bit like the London Oyster card, but with some drawbacks.  read more ...

23/11/14

The Hug run a list server which hosts various lists both locally and nationally because it's the sort of thing we do for ourselves, our friends, our community and for organisations we support and, if you're reading this post, you may well be a subscriber to one or more of them.  read more ...

04/05/14

I've more of less given up trying to sell my services developing web sites as it seems to me it's turned from a product created by scientists into one created by artists. From what I've seen that means more pretty, less content, often harder to navigate with little thought for the future. ...  read more ...

18/10/13

I've wibbled on before about WalkLakes - the site Beth and I have created about walking in the Lake District. It's going pretty well. Beth's researched a lot of walks so we have good content both for that and lots of peripheral pages too so we are getting quite a respectable about of traffic now. Which is a good thing as that's how the site is going to make us money.  read more ...

20/06/13

So for Fathers' Day I bought my Dad a bottle of port from M&S and had them deliver it as he's 100 miles away from me. That all worked splendidly. And then a few days later I got this email. It began:  read more ...

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