Leekworld http://leekworld.com Adventures in la la land Thu, 02 May 2013 15:49:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Attack of the Giant Robots http://leekworld.com/arty-farty/attack-of-the-giant-robots/ http://leekworld.com/arty-farty/attack-of-the-giant-robots/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 15:25:02 +0000 tiff http://leekworld.com/?p=643 Today I realised that the robot (a giant robot from Studio Ghibli’s Laputa – Castles In The Sky) head I started yesterday had some scale issues. Given that I am making it to go in a fish tank, and given the size of the robot torso vs head, I was looking at some kibd of [...]

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]]> http://leekworld.com/utter-drivel/festive-flatulence/feed/ 0 There, I fixed christmas.. http://leekworld.com/food-and-recipes/there-i-fixed-christmas/ http://leekworld.com/food-and-recipes/there-i-fixed-christmas/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:34:57 +0000 tiff http://leekworld.com/?p=580 OH NO IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE AND I’VE NOT ICED THE CAKE. OH wait. Icing inna bag and a moment of madness later – everything’s OK.

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]]> http://leekworld.com/arty-farty/illustration/hes-not-a-lion/feed/ 0 Empty search shows home page on wordpress http://leekworld.com/code/empty-search-shows-home-page-on-wordpress/ http://leekworld.com/code/empty-search-shows-home-page-on-wordpress/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:19 +0000 tiff http://leekworld.com/?p=475 OK, so you have a site. It’s not set up like a blog, so you don’t have a blog or posts page. You notice that submitting the search form with nothing in it sends you to a broken home page. There are all sorts of madnesses touted to fix this involving modifying the core wordpress [...]

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