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An online notebook for tech, music, food, wordpress…. and whatever else I am keeping note of…

Author: Fragile Writer

I'm a webdesigner with a passion for politics. I believe that the fact that we live together on a fragile planet is something that we should always remember. It will remind us to respect each other and our environment.

Post-Brexit Society; Puritanism, Denial, Nationalism

September 8, 2016September 8, 2016 Fragile WriterPolitics

As the brexit referendum becomes a memory there are some resounding changes that have happened to the UK’s collective consciousness. I’ve read two “opinion” articles this morning – one from the Financial Times “Britain is[…]

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How to implement Scroll to Fixed – navigation effect

July 28, 2016 Fragile WriterWordpress

I am trying to implement a scroll to fixed navigation bar in a wordpress theme. The bar is beneath a banner image and then as the page was scrolled to a certain point the navigation[…]

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Maintenance mode plugins

July 27, 2016July 27, 2016 Fragile WriterWordpress

Something I often need to implement inside wordpress is an under-maintenance page. This can be a total annoyance because there’s so many under maintenance plugins out there and many of them won’t take custom html.[…]

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Adding a taxonomy separate to categories for wordpress

July 25, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterWordpress

I had a situation where I wanted to use categories for different sorts of reviews, but I also wanted them location based to allow growth in the future. I didn’t want to create loads of[…]

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What’s going on in the USA?

July 11, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterPolitics

With the shocking murder of five police in America on Friday it seemed like a moment when the powers that be could take notice and take action to restore people’s faith in the police in[…]

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every car bomb in baghdad since 2003

A map of every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003

July 6, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterPolitics

Credit: http://www.theasian.asia/archives/95335

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Chilcot Report publication

July 6, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterPolitics

The Chilcot Report is being published today. I wonder what that will mean for the world. There is a body of peace philosophy which determines to decide whether there is such a things as a[…]

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Post Brexit Thoughts

July 2, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterPolitics

I really feel that this has been a dark week for Britain, Europe and the world in general. All except for Wales playing so well in the Euros and beating Belgium so decisively. But football[…]

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Testing an Oovoo embedded video chatroom

June 29, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterProgramming

I’m experimenting with embedding a video chat room using oovoo as a client has asked about doing something like that and now I’m like a dog with a bone trying to figure it out.

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Display post listing differently if there’s more than 3 in the category

June 17, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterWordpress

Basically I just wanted to display only titles with a link in a page sidebar for posts in a category where there were more than three but I wanted to show the full content for[…]

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Change single.php for posts in child of category

June 17, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterWordpress

Sometimes WordPress can tie you in knots trying to figure out something that should seemingly be simple. In this situation I was searching for a solution to make wordpress check if a single post was[…]

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RMA email notifications – OpenCart Returns

June 16, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterOpenCart

I was surprised to discover that RMA notifications aren’t sent automatically by OpenCart. There’s an easy fix

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Bill Hicks on gun control

June 15, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterPolitics

Bill Hicks so often spoke truth. He was taken from this fragile planet far too soon

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EU referendum – what a sham

June 15, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterPolitics

A referendum on something with such huge implications as EU membership is utterly inappropriate. No-one in the general population, save a few scholars, can possibly have studied the political, social and economic effects of such[…]

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How to work with opencart

June 14, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterOpenCart

I am really enjoying working with OpenCart 2.2.0.0, I’m a big fan of wordpress but it’s not brilliant for online sales – it’s okay, but opencart is a great interface if all you really want[…]

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Crisis of Capitalism

June 6, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterPolitics

This is an old video that popped up on my facebook memories today, so I thought I’d pop it on here because it’s still very relevant to the world.

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The Shiso Room – Future Music FM 26th May 2016

May 26, 2016July 26, 2016 Fragile WriterMusic

Awesome selection of warm and uplifting stuff to chill out to on these extended sunny evenings. It’s hardly going to be Cafe del Mar, but it’s how I roll when summer’s round the corner.

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To use colorbox lightbox for native wordpress gallery

May 12, 2016June 15, 2016 Fragile WriterWordpress

I was gutted that changes in the Gallery plugin that I was using (Envira Gallery Light) were such that it was rendered incompatible with my theme templates – I had been using the in page[…]

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Palin as VP?

May 12, 2016June 15, 2016 Fragile WriterPolitics

This track came to mind when I saw on the news that Palin is considering putting herself forward as VP.

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Chili Sauce Recipe

April 15, 2016June 15, 2016 Fragile WriterRecipes

Delicious way to preserve an abundance of chillis and tomatoes.

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