Author: sroot
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Goodbye MovableType, hello WordPress
Finally I’ve got around to updating my blog from MovableType to WordPress. If you’re looking at this today (and maybe for another month.. or year) you’ll see the template is still the default WordPress template. Eventually I’ll update it but for now at least the content from all the old posts is still visible. The…
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Mail merge onto a PDF background
Some days, I love computers. Days like today, where we want send a mailshot to 900 past customers. I got the address list from our MS Access database. I got a PDF of the artwork. What I wanted to do was create a mail merge using the PDF as a background. Libreoffice/Openoffice didn’t seem to…
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What happens when you break down in France (10 things I learnt)
When you go on a family holiday and your car gets a longer holiday than you do, you just know something didn’t go to plan. This year our camping trip to france had a little ‘incident’ that left me pushing my French skills to the limit, learning new words concerning vehicle parts, pleading with insurance…