Urban Giraffe

Latest Software Release

• Redirection 2.1.15 - New Ajax and Japanese

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  HeadSpace Nofollow Module

  February 13, 2009

  HeadSpace has had a meta-robots module for some time. This module allows you to set various options on a page-by-page basis that determine how search engines (and other bots) process the data on that page. This is fine in general, but sometimes it's necessary to have a little more control, and to this end I've created a new module that let's you change the follow/nofollow attribute of certain links.

  First it's worth explaining what nofollow does. Nofollow is a tag that was invented by Google to allow website owners to prevent a link from affecting it's target site's search ranking - the link is not followed. In effect this gives you some control over how search engines index your site. The tag itself is very simple:

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  WordPress 2.7 Baseline

  February 12, 2009

  If you make use of any of my plugins then it's likely you've noticed several fundamental changes, along with some tougher system requirements. I think now is a good time to actually write about these changes and discuss the reasons behind them.

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  Late New Year Update

  February 11, 2009

  Yes, this is one of those late-late February New Year round-ups! And what a year it's been in general. Moving back to the 'real world' (aka London) has now come and gone, and I'm safely wrapped up in trying to stay ahead of the world's general downward curve.

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  London Dim Sum - Yauatcha

  October 2, 2008

  Living in Guangzhou had many advantages, and one of the biggest was the cheap availability of food. As the centre of Cantonese cuisine, Guangzhou (previously called Canton) is more than well placed to provide some tasty treats. My brief experience with Northern food revealed a somewhat stodgy bread-based diet and combined with my return to London I discovered that I missed real Guangzhou Dim Sum.

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