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Downloading email

Photo by Nigel Maine

If  you learn about the internet and how it works as I do, by picking it up piecemeal as you go along, there are often huge gaps in your knowledge that you don’t realise.  One has been revealed to me recently about email. My business email has always been downloaded to my email client (Eudora…

The Lodger Landlord – testing the theories

Tessa's 21 days of tips for Lodger Landlords

I spent much of last year studying and reading about social media and how it works. This year it is time to put some of this into practice. I have therefore started an experimental new service for lodger landlords. My existing service, Landlord Law,  does cater for people renting a room to a lodger, but…

Another new plugin – comment luv

comment luv

I’ve found another great plugin, although its got a bit of a silly name, and a soppy heart logo.  Its called ‘comment luv’ (I said it was silly), and what it does is give a link back to the most recent post on your blog commentators blogs.  I learned about it from the Blogussion site here….

SRA Practising Certificate 2009/10

SRA logo

It is 23 December 2009 and I have just received through the post my 2009/2010 solicitors practising certificate. As it is expressed to run from 1 November 2009 (and I started paying for it in October) I can’t help feeling that this is a bit on the late side.  Its a good thing none of…

How green is your web-site?

In the cloud

Using the internet seems a bit like magic.  You click on your computer and the fruits of knowledge of the whole world are at your fingertips.  Just like that. And now we are told that we do not even have to store information on our own machines – we can store it all ‘in the…

Like plugins for wordpress

Like buttons

Did you know that there are plugins you can get for WordPress blogs so people can indicate that they ‘like’ your blog post?  Yes, as in the ‘like’ feature on facebook. I started thinking yesterday that it would be a nice thing to do and went looking, and lo!  There they were! I found three:…

The Cumulus Tag Cloud

A static image of the moving cumulus tag cloud

One of the fun things about using WordPress for your blog, is all the plugins that you can use.  I have just found and installed the cumulus tag plugin. I first spotted this on Technolama (a legal technology blog) where I thought it looked pretty cool.  Having found it by chance this evening, flicking through…