steve purkiss

When you first dive into the Drupal CMS the sheer number of modules available can be daunting. I’ve been developing sites using Drupal for three years now and there’s some modules I use on every site, so I thought I’d share a little knowledge and pass the goodies on.
The most recent site I developed [...]

A recent blog from someone I ‘met’ on seesmic about the problems with getting microphones working with Flash on Linux made me think that it’s high time we said a big “Thanks!” to all who involve themselves in the Free Software Community.
Playing the blame game
Sometimes it seems all too easy to blame “the community” [...]

I was checking through the videos from the aftermath of the London seesmic meetup last week (couldn’t go due to lack of cash!) and happened to hear a guy mention he invented the Cybercafe.
Turns out the guy in question is Ivan Pope, who is indeed inventor of the term ‘Cybercafe’, along with a string [...]

If you watch just one video this year, watch this 8 minute one!
After a week of what I can only describe as “writers block”, I seem to be back alive. Perhaps it was yesterday’s full moon in Leo (my sun sign), but whatever it is I am grateful as I saw this video a while [...]

At this very moment there are many people making love. There are also many people being tortured.
We can either dismiss this and live in the world presented before our eyes, or realise that we all, as human beings, owe it to ourselves and each other to at least be educated as to what is [...]

Today I installed the FeedBurner module on the Drupal-based projectstars website which I spent most of last year building. You can read my post on how to hook up your FeedBurner feeds here.

If you haven’t heard of the site before, go check it out, especially if you’re looking for a job or are a self-employed. [...]

Remember when you were learning how to walk that it was all about balance?
Well, life is like that too - especially when it comes to power, wealth, and all that malarky.
If you’ve forgotten, here’s a refresher:

It looks like seesmic, the new video blogging/discussion service and cool kid in town, is being headed up by an evil Globalist, intent on the population of the world being watched and controlled by an all-powerful One World Government.
As Lord Acton quoted in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
“Power tends to corrupt, and [...]

At the end of my last post I mentioned a few of my ideas I’d like to create. One of them is flo.at.it, a community site for startups. From experience, it’s hard to get marketing and support when you’re starting up, and although there’s sites like killerstartups.com out there, they are only lists and don’t [...]