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Cody Boots

Admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:33:39 +0000

The Nature Shop have sent me a pair of Keen men’s Cody boots to try out. Wow, these booties are warm and comfy! Perfect for deep snow in a ski resort… Unfortunately the ski season hasn’t started yet in the Alps and in the interests of getting this review out as quickly as possible I [...]

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Mountain Hardwear Tent

Admin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:46:25 +0000

The Nature Shop have sent me one of their Mountain Hardwear tents to take a peek at...

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The Essential Guide to Jet-Skiing

Admin — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:12:50 +0000

The Jet Ski is a simple concept – an engine, some handlebars, and a lot of fun. But as with anything mechanical, it needs to be looked after correctly. Jet skiing is a rewarding and exhilarating hobby, but there are a few things that you need to bear in mind before and after you purchase [...]

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WordPress Post Grouping Plugin

Admin — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:00:45 +0000

This plug-in provides a simple, transparent, and automatic way to group a number of posts on your blog. For example, you might want to group a set of posts in to a series of articles about a given topic across WordPress’s default categories or tags. I’ve written quite a few WordPress plug-ins, check out these [...]

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Ben Skinner Talks About The Cribber

Admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:23:46 +0000

mycornwall.tv brings together the very best of Cornwall

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BlueHost Strangles Site with CPU Throttling

Admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:46:59 +0000

First, a big “sorry” to everyone using the site! Over the past few days the site has been loading very slowly. It isn’t my fault – it’s a new feature the web host (BlueHost) has introduced… Read on to learn more. It wasn’t until I found the BlueHost & HostMonster User Alert: CPU Throttling article [...]

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Lucozade Summer Challenges

Admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:43:55 +0000

Lucozade Energy reveals second of five adventurous summer challenges around the World Lucozade Energy is challenging fans to do more with their energy by offering the chance to win one of five unforgettable physical challenges across the globe this summer. The second challenge is now open with the opportunity for one winner and 3 mates [...]

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Simple WordPress Twitter Plugin

Admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:40:09 +0000

This plug-in provides a very simple, transparent, and automatic way to have your blog tweet new posts to your Twitter account, letting all your followers know you’ve just posted something new, or updated something, on your blog. Now updated to support Twitter’s OAuth authentication. [Note, this version of the plug-in requires that your environment uses [...]

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Adventure Calendar Update…

Admin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:34:08 +0000

Last year I put some effort in to creating a 2009 Mountain Adventures Calendar. This wasn’t without masses of support from several of the the blog’s authors; providing their awesome photographs and stories. A big shout of gratitude to you all! But, after the layout was completed (a sample month is shown below) I started [...]

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Comments with Avatars

Admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:03:38 +0000

This plug-in provides a configurable widget to display recent comments with comment author avatars. I’m quite pleased with the plug-in, I hope you are too. It makes an ideal companion to my other avatar plug-in. The plug-in is available as a download here. All I ask is that you credit the plug-in (i.e. include a [...]

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Notices Ticker Plugin

Admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:38:20 +0000

This plug-in allows short notices to be scrolled (ticker-tape style) or faded (in and out) on your blog. Each message is valid for a set number of days from its creation (or update) date and can also be de-activated to keep it from being displayed until you are ready to let the world see it. [...]

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WordPress Post Country Plugin (with premium Google Mapping version)

Admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:26:23 +0000

This plugin allows you to record a country against your posts. For example the country that the post talks about, the event took place in, the location you are writing the post from, etc. Your imagination is the limit...

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Avatars Plugin

Admin — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:10:37 +0000

New Version (v10.3), released 20th Oct 2011 WordPress (from version 2.5) includes native support for global avatars. Great! But, what about adding local (private) avatars for your users? Maybe your users don’t want a global avatar, aren’t IT savvy enough to set a Gravatar up, simply want a private avatar for your blog, or any [...]

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"Use Avatar" bbPress plug-in

Admin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:21:21 +0000

This plug-in enables the Sterling Adventures bbPress forum (News) to use the avatars from the blog (Adventures). It isn’t an elaborate plug-in, but I am fairly proud of it, if only because it only took 30 minutes to write. So, I think it is worth sharing… The plug-in is available as a download here. All [...]

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Simple Archive Plugin

Admin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:10:50 +0000

The theme (look and feel) used for Sterling Adventures has been developed with lots of love and care! Although it probably still isn’t anywhere near perfect (or even working in some places – software is never bug-free), but I am fairly proud of it. So, I think some of it is now at a point [...]

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Image Archive Launched

Admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:15:01 +0000

After some beta testing (thanks Dave, Ian and Laetitia) the new Image Archive is live… The blog chronology is always pushing articles off the blog’s front (index) page as new adventures are posted. That’s the normal way of things, but it means great content (and particularly, photos) are “lost” and are rarely seen again. This [...]

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