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isPermaLink="false">http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/?p=3440</guid> <description><![CDATA[As some of you may be aware, I&#8217;m currently involved in building a cloud-based DR environment for a couple of core business systems. We opted to use Amazon EC2 for this, and I thought I&#8217;d share a few observations gleaned along the way. Over the next few weeks I&#8217;m going to be taking a look [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/disaster-recovery-start-planning-survival/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>So.. how&#8217;s your brain working today? Can YOU read this?</title><link>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/other/how-is-your-brain-today-can-you-read-this</link> <comments>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/other/how-is-your-brain-today-can-you-read-this#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:20:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Everything Else]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain teaser]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/?p=3452</guid> <description><![CDATA[This was forwarded onto me earlier this week&#8230;  I never usually forward stuff like this onwards but this just amused. Can you read the following message&#8230;? F1gur471v31y 5p34k1ng? Good example of a Brain Study. If you can read this you have a strong mind. 7H15 M3554G3 53RV35 7O PR0V3 H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N D0 4M4Z1NG [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/other/how-is-your-brain-today-can-you-read-this/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cloud Hosting &#8211; What does Cloud actually mean?</title><link>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/cloud-hosting-what-does-cloud-actually-mean-to-you</link> <comments>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/cloud-hosting-what-does-cloud-actually-mean-to-you#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:37:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category> <category><![CDATA[disaster recovery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EC2]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elastic Compute Cloud]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows 2008 R2]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/?p=3427</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#8220;Cloud Hosting&#8221; is possibly one of the most used, but yet also most misunderstood terms in current use across the Internet. Cloud means many things to many people, yet has the ability to generate images of limitless potential &#38; strictly imposed limitations &#8211; all at the same time. Among those who have not really used [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/cloud-hosting-what-does-cloud-actually-mean-to-you/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>An Open Letter to Comment Spammers</title><link>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/an-open-letter-to-comment-spammers</link> <comments>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/an-open-letter-to-comment-spammers#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[comments]]></category> <category><![CDATA[junk email]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SPAM]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spammer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spamming]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/?p=3349</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dear potential spammer, In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, it&#8217;s a rare occasion that a piece of marketing junk submitted here as a comment against a post will actually appear. We filter all comments before they&#8217;re posted and if our automated spam filters fail to catch them, our manual review will. Either way, we do not [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/an-open-letter-to-comment-spammers/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Website relaunched!</title><link>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/website-relaunched</link> <comments>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/website-relaunched#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:30:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[new site]]></category> <category><![CDATA[timstephenson.me.uk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Website relaunch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/?p=2982</guid> <description><![CDATA[With traffic to this website steadily increasing, I&#8217;ve been spending some time attempting to look at how I could get more relevant and useful content surfaced onto the site&#8217;s homepage. After spending far too long attempting to make my old website&#8217;s templates do what I needed them to do, I finally saw the light and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/website-relaunched/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Get started with WordPress &amp; Nginx; 15 minutes from fresh OS to WordPress</title><link>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/get-started-with-wordpress-in-15-minutes</link> <comments>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/get-started-with-wordpress-in-15-minutes#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:14:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Apache]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Centos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[getting started]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[high performance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[instructions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LAMP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nginx]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Web Hosting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web server]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/?p=2826</guid> <description><![CDATA[In earlier posts I briefly talked about the dramatic performance improvements you can get by using Nginx to run your PHP / WordPress websites and touched on some of the vital steps that need to be done to start tuning WordPress for performance. If you&#8217;re interested in the idea of using Nginx but wondering where [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/get-started-with-wordpress-in-15-minutes/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Replace radiator valve without draining system</title><link>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/houserefurb/replace-radiator-valve-without-draining-system</link> <comments>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/houserefurb/replace-radiator-valve-without-draining-system#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:22:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[House Refurb]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bunging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[diy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plumbing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[radiator]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/?p=3338</guid> <description><![CDATA[Replacing radiator valves without draining your central heating system is something that can be achieved with a few simple additional tools (bungs), a heating system that&#8217;s in reasonable condition,  and a small helping of luck! This is a perfectly safe &#38; viable way to do small changes or radiator removal / replacement / new valves etc without [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/houserefurb/replace-radiator-valve-without-draining-system/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sam&#8217;s First Shoes</title><link>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/photography/sams-first-shoes</link> <comments>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/photography/sams-first-shoes#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:48:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Everything Else]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2011]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aperture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aperture 3]]></category> <category><![CDATA[baby]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cruising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nik Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shoes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Silver Efex Pro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[walking]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/?p=2855</guid> <description><![CDATA[To mark a bit of a milestone in Sam&#8217;s life, thought I&#8217;d quickly post this. His first pair of proper &#8220;cruising&#8221; shoes&#8230;. Now very necessary as he&#8217;s probably going to be walking independantly in few weeks at the latest. Shot with an EOS 5D &#38; EF 24-70 f2.8L, and processed through Aperture &#38; Nik Software&#8217;s [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/photography/sams-first-shoes/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Web Hosting &#8211; you don&#8217;t always get what you pay for&#8230;!</title><link>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/webhosting-you-dont-always-get-what-you-pay-for</link> <comments>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/webhosting-you-dont-always-get-what-you-pay-for#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:27:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[caching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[high performance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nginx]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Virtual Private Server]]></category> <category><![CDATA[VPS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Web Hosting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/?p=2817</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just over a month ago now, we launched a pair of commercial WordPress websites for a local business initially using a top-end &#8220;dual hosted&#8221; Business plan provided by 1&#38;1. We went this route for a number of reasons, one being the significant amount of advertising 1&#38;1 seem to produce (applying the &#8220;they can&#8217;t be that bad&#8221; concept), [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.timstephenson.me.uk/technology/webhosting-you-dont-always-get-what-you-pay-for/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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