Peeled Carrots » Blogging http://www.peeledcarrots.com ....cause life's too short to peel carrots. Enough said!! Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:17:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Time for twitter http://www.peeledcarrots.com/time-for-twitter/ http://www.peeledcarrots.com/time-for-twitter/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:22:13 +0000 Stephen Blake http://www.peeledcarrots.com/?p=222 After resisting it for quite sometime now I have finally decide to create a Twitter account.

To keep with the theme of my blog, here is my twitter URL: http://twitter.com/Peeled_Carrots

]]> http://www.peeledcarrots.com/time-for-twitter/feed/ 0 WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” released http://www.peeledcarrots.com/wordpress-27-coltrane-released/ http://www.peeledcarrots.com/wordpress-27-coltrane-released/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:14:21 +0000 Stephen Blake http://www.peeledcarrots.com/?p=200 The long awaited new version of WordPress was released just over a week ago and I have got to say that I am really impressed with the new look and feel, updated user interface and the large amount of new and improved functionality.

Hats off to everybody involved in the new release! It has truly become a fantastic blogging platform and although I have always been a huge advocate for WordPress, this release makes it much easier for me to convince people how good it actually is.

The usability of the admin interface is so slick and easy to use that I have completely fallen in love with it. So, if you’re using another blogging platform do yourself a favour and get WordPress installed – I guarantee that you won’t look back.

Below is the screencast of some of the new functionality – it’s awesome!!

]]> http://www.peeledcarrots.com/wordpress-27-coltrane-released/feed/ 0 Tech 4 Africa – Starting to get talked about on the blogosphere http://www.peeledcarrots.com/tech-4-africa-starting-to-get-talked-about-on-the-blogosphere/ http://www.peeledcarrots.com/tech-4-africa-starting-to-get-talked-about-on-the-blogosphere/#comments Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:42:18 +0000 Stephen Blake http://soapbox.technovated.com/2006/11/27/tech-4-africa-starting-to-get-talked-about-on-the-blogosphere/ We have finally got the site up and running and are getting some really positive feedback from the web commuunity. Not just in South Africa, but in other parts of the world as well.

The guys at cowboysengines wrote a pretty cool article about the conference idea and they are giving us some solid support!

Please visit the site, at www.technologyforafrica.org and give us some feedback, so that we can give feedback to the speakers, justify sponsorship and organise a really worthwhile event.

Cheers

]]> http://www.peeledcarrots.com/tech-4-africa-starting-to-get-talked-about-on-the-blogosphere/feed/ 2 Tech 4 Africa – Technology conference http://www.peeledcarrots.com/tech-4-africa-technology-conference/ http://www.peeledcarrots.com/tech-4-africa-technology-conference/#comments Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:23:37 +0000 Stephen Blake http://soapbox.technovated.com/2006/11/03/tech-4-africa-technology-conference/ With the onset of an extremely cold snap of weather on the 1st November, I am longing to go back home to soak up some rays from the hot African sun during Christmas time.

Instead we will be hard at work in a cold and gloomy London, which is really not as bad as it seems. One of the things we have been working on is a project which is really close to the heart and will hopefully benefit the whole of Southern Africa.

The aim of this project is to hold a “web and emerging technologies conference” in South Africa. We want to get international speakers, who are industry leaders and who would like to give some advice to Africans involved in the Web and IT industry.

I have been doing quite a lot of research over the past few months and I really believe that a conference of this nature will be beneficial to the “African technology community”

We have a site up at and running (www.technologyforafrica.org), which is still undergoing some final testing before we start to contact Southern African companies involved in the IT industry. However, if you have any comments or suggestions please contact one of us, or just post a comment to this article.

I am hoping that we will get positive feedback from the majority of people who we contact because I think the concept of “Technology for Africa” is a fantastic opportunity.

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