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Free Access to Encyclopædia Britannica Online for Online Publishers

April 23rd, 2008 by steve in general

The Encyclopædia Britannica  is offering free access to their online content to “people who publish with some regularity on the Internet, be they bloggers, Webmasters, or writers“. Registration is required.

That’s me.


Setting up

April 15th, 2008 by steve in general, technology

I’m setting up a space on the web to store my research activities and general information about technology that I find interesting. It’s a kind of scratch space for me to drop things when I feel like it. This post is about how this all got here:

Taking advice from Graeme and Lorcan I registered my domain with www.joker.com and signed up with www.webfaction.com to host my site. If you can afford 5 years it’s a nice deal. Webfaction have given me shell access to a linux box and their support guys have been great to me so far — replied within 24 hours of my questions. They have an affiliate scheme so if you decide to use them because of me feel free to add “sneely” as your affiliate. It can’t hurt to ask…

For now I’m running Wordpress 2.5 with the HijauSegar 1.0 theme by L Chandler and bib2html for my publications. It’ll probably all change next time I’m bored at home.