Fix for italics and lists in WordPress HoPE theme

January 19, 2011

HoPE is a very nice WordPress theme by Patrick that I’m currently using for a travel blog. I’ve found two minor niggles with Version 2.5.8 so far: the theme doesn’t display italics, bullet points for unordered lists or numbers for ordered lists. The fix is quite simple (just to return the styles to their defaults) [...]

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It’s nearly 2011! Why am I still carrying a wallet?!

December 21, 2010

In my last post I mentioned the idea of an “overseas wallet”, ie one that you take with you when travelling and that only holds the items that will be useful when on the move. That means we need to have two wallets… but the technologist (and minimalist) in me asks, why are we still [...]

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Overseas wallet: do you have one?

December 14, 2010

Mobile phone charger? Check! Spare underwear? Check! Overseas wallet? Errr, what’s that? As someone who has made travel into a bit of a hobby, I experienced a bit of a Eureka moment when I read this post on MoneySavingExpert: An overseas wallet… do you have one? It struck a chord with me because it’s such a [...]

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Have laptop, will travel!

December 6, 2010

Shortly I’m going to be backpacking around South America for 4 months. My question is whether to take a laptop with me? It’s a 13inch Macbook, weighing around 2kg. The upsides are many, for example, in hotels/hostels/cafes, I could easily do what I would normally do at home. I could research stuff to do while [...]

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It’s been a long time since I rock’n'rolled

December 5, 2010

It’s been a quite a while since my last post. I guess I must have been busy! So far in this blog, I’ve written about software development and connected topics, in an attempt to keep it as a professional blog. But actually, I’ve been finding that a little stunting.  I am into so many other [...]

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