Someone who I used to like, then didn’t like at all, then didn’t really think about either way, used to have a T-shirt with this quote on it and a picture of some despondent bakery items. Despondency has hit the bakery. I didn’t like the T-shirt that much, but I always liked the words. Think on.
Mar 162012
Mar 012012
Well, that was painless. I got an email when Hew started moving stuff over, another when he was done, and Lo! it’s all here. My theme is still here, in its free-for-WP.org version, my sidebar and footer widgets are still basically the same, and they’ve added some plugins to replicate some of the features of WordPress.com that I was used to. Visitors probably don’t notice the minor differences on the site from yesterday to today. Slick! I’m sure I could have done it myself, but by the time I’d looked up how to do everything found and installed the right [...]
Feb 282012
So it’s all been arranged – a “Happiness Engineer” called Hew at the WordPress.com guided transfer service is going to take all of this stuff and move it over to a WordPress.org installation hosted by HostGator. That’ll happen between 02:00 UTC Wednesday and 02:00 UTC Thursday this week. [That's the wee small hours in the UK, evening in the US, and lunchtime in Australia.] When I wake up in the morning, I’ll have to wait up to a day before I can see the new site. So it may look weird at first, but I’ll get things all how I like them [...]
I just bought a “Guided Transfer” service from WordPress.com to move all the stuff on this site to, essentially, another site that looks roughly the same and has the same web address but is delivered to your screen from a web host that I pay, rather than from WordPress.com. If that meant nothing to you and your eyes have glazed over, feel free to wander off. There are some naked girlie photos here, or a few recipes. Anyway, what it means is that if you come back in a couple of weeks’ time, this blog may look slightly different. No [...]
Jan 262012
January 26, 2012
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One of my pet hates is redundant language; I reserve the right to “really truly” for emphasis if I want to, but all that “05-hundred AM in the morning” stuff is for cock jockeys. Here’s a little visual celebration of redundancy in action:
Jan 202012
January 20, 2012
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My mate posted this on Facebook. I thought this was ironic due to the fact this paper came out only a couple of days after the Costa Concordia tragedy happened (on Friday 13th January, woo00ooo), and just above the photo of the sinking cruise ship they’ve got a big red headline offering to win a dream holiday. Mmm, I think not. I wonder if they got in trouble for this ? ***** 4nim4l ***** Want to Win Image of the Week? Send me the URL to your image, or email me the file as an attachment if you must. I’m [...]
Apr 182009
April 18, 2009
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You’d think it’d be quicker to blog than to make home-printed-&-stapled fanzines like I used to in the early 1990s. It isn’t.
