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Tweets about East London Line

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  BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend is coming up. Here is what you can expect: http://t.co/Rm1YYBf7
  (about 21 hours ago)
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  Residents say no to Olympic venue [VIDEO]: Local residents and councillors from Hackney are opposing an applicat... http://t.co/nX0VFVpu
  (about 1 day ago)
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  Hackney residents say no to Olympic venue on Leyton Marsh http://t.co/MLdtiTro via @eastlondonlines
  (about 1 day ago)
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  RT @dk33per: .@eastlondonlines is after fresh, new start-ups. If you know of any in east Ldn, get in touch: news@eastlondonlines.co.uk #ellstartups
  (about 1 day ago)
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  South London colleges consult on plan to merge: A consultation process on the potential merger of Southwark Coll... http://t.co/3j1S1kQ9
  (about 1 day ago)

This is a #hashtag search

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  New £4.4m library welcomes first visitors #EastLondonLines http://t.co/XjuK6tGU
  (about 1 day ago)

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  Derren Brown was born in #Croydon? Well, I never: http://t.co/oglQbZYL (via @guardian) @eastlondonlines are you thinking what I'm thinking?
  (about 41 minutes ago)
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  @eastlondonlines @KoosCouvee @DanielBODonnell Have we covering this yet? http://t.co/Hwky2nkN
  (about 53 minutes ago)
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  Wild Hackney podcast nominated for BBC award - EastLondonLines http://t.co/pbxvHlKW
  (about 1 hour ago)
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  @Screen_22 @eastlondonlines Cheers, Screen 22 crew. I've got to call you soon. Been in the idea factory too long. :)
  (about 2 hours ago)
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  @dk33per @eastlondonlines Awesome work! And now you're getting #R1BW2012 it'll hit many, many more!
  (about 2 hours ago)

Useful. Shame the result looks so bad though. It’s possible to turn off user photos

• Derren Brown was born in #Croydon? Well, I never: http://t.co/oglQbZYL (via @guardian) @eastlondonlines are you thinking what I'm thinking?
  (about 41 minutes ago)
• @eastlondonlines @KoosCouvee @DanielBODonnell Have we covering this yet? http://t.co/Hwky2nkN
  (about 53 minutes ago)
• Wild Hackney podcast nominated for BBC award - EastLondonLines http://t.co/pbxvHlKW
  (about 1 hour ago)
• @Screen_22 @eastlondonlines Cheers, Screen 22 crew. I've got to call you soon. Been in the idea factory too long. :)
  (about 2 hours ago)
• @dk33per @eastlondonlines Awesome work! And now you're getting #R1BW2012 it'll hit many, many more!
  (about 2 hours ago)

but it’s the three big square buttons that screw up the typography (look at the line-spacing), and these can’t be turned off, or easily re-styled with CSS, without adding extra items to every short code, unfortunately. It’s also not automatically updated. There’s potential here for producing an extended version of the plugin, with more formatting options, and an Ajax-based live-update feature. Unfortunately, I sent a slightly ranting email to the developer, which I now slightly regret, complaining that the comment-form for the plugin page on his website was only usable by people with Facebook accounts, so I’m not sure how amenable he’s now likely to be to me hacking his plugin around. Oops.

Croydon Underpass Art. Photo: Dominika Stefanska

One week after the vandalization of the £10.000 street art project at Norwood Junction, two local artists reveal a new art project in what is locally know as the dingiest underpass in Croydon.

Under the guidance of the artistic duo Jeanne-Marie Eayrs and Susan Beresford, better known as Undercroydon, members of the community have for four weeks been creating a mural in the underpass that links the Nestle Building with Fairfield Halls.

“It is Undercroydon’s belief that murals bring people together: building communities, not walls,” explained the pair.

The project is called SUBart and is a collaboration between the two artists, Croydon Business Improvement District (BID), who also funded the project, and Family Learning Week. Locals and contributors attended the unveiling of the murals yesterday (Monday).

This project is being launched immediately after the vandalism of the The Long Way Home art project at Norwood Junction underpass last week. That project was funded by Transport for London to improve the experience of the travelers using the station.

Eayrs was not perturbed about damage  to  her project: “You can’t be afraid of people ruining your work” she said and explained that as a street artist you have to be prepared for vandalization to happen and not let it affect you. The duo has taken precautions and sprayed the artwork with an invisible cover-spray that prevents people from tagging it.

Local resident Louise Innis, 54, stopped by the SUBart project to take in the transformation. “It’s beautiful and so bright and lively,” she said. “It doesn’t seem so dirty and grimy anymore – it makes you feel much happier. I walk through here a lot, and I love it.”

Undercroydon have already put their colorful stamp on the borough with murals across town, including their eye-catching Stepping Out at the entrance of the Whitgift Centre.

The progress of the project can be followed on Undercroydon’s blog.

YouTube Test

I’ve been writing a plugin for various Google-Maps related tasks. It’s going to be pretty cool. This is a test of the function to insert an externally-hosted Google map.

Google maps can only be seen in single-post view.

Actually, it’s not all that impressive, and probably duplicates functionality already available in other plugins, but it fulfils our needs, and hopefully will be useful to someone else out there, too.

It’s essentially an enhanced version of the standard WP Links widget. I extracted the code from my WordPress installation, and added a number of useful extra options, exposing some more of the controls of the wp_list_bookmarks() function.

I’ll tidy up the code a little, and release it into the wild (or at least the WP Widgets repository) soon.