By tigtog on April 26, 2007
Hoyden was down for a few hours yesterday, and because we’re cheapskates we chose a webhost without 24/7 tech support, so we couldn’t contact them on our public holiday. Normally the webhost lets us know if they’ve scheduled server outages on public holidays etc, but not a peep from them this time, so I dunno. [...]
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By Lauredhel on April 22, 2007
I’ve been contemplating the buzzword “attack”. While it is worth keeping a lid on egregious, unwarranted, off-topic ad hominem remarks, “personal attack” seems to verge on being a means to shut down dissent in some online discussions. It can function a little like “politically correct” – a taboo word to put the brakes on disagreement. [...]
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By Lauredhel on April 14, 2007
Edit 18 Dec 2009: I’ve seen this referred to in quite a few places round the ‘sphere as “Antifeminist Troll Bingo”. It’s not called that here, and was never called that here, because that isn’t my sole or primary intention. Many of these statements are made not by people just stirring crap in the hope [...]
Posted in gender & feminism, Meta | Tagged feminists, Play Bingo!, rape culture |
By tigtog on April 12, 2007
The sharp-eyed amongst you will have noticed some slight changes to the links in the banner/header of the blog. This is mostly just reorganisation of existing material, but I’d hate any of you to miss out on the recently added “About Lauredhel: a FAQ” subpage linked to from the “About the Hoydens” page.
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By tigtog on April 1, 2007
LP is offline at the moment UPDATE: Back online now. We’ve exceeded our bandwidth, and despite a request to the webhosts previously to roll over into the next payment plan and keep continuity of service if that happens, apparently the sales people who promised this have not implemented it with the tech people. You know [...]
Posted in Meta | Tagged blogging, interblog
By tigtog on March 21, 2007
I’ve decided to add a co-blogger to the roster. We’ve been meeting up at various junctions in the intertubes for about ten years now, and she’s one of my favourite invisible friends. She’s had her own livejournal for ages, and I’ve linked to her pieces there occasionally, and she’ll be crossposting various pieces as and [...]
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By tigtog on March 9, 2007
This is a crosspost to effect a Googlebomb, correcting an injustice against a fellow feminist blogger. Apologies for the length, but putting any of it behind a cut would kinda defeat the purpose. Jill Filipovic, who blogs at Feministe and Ms. JD, is a NYU law student who has been the subject of cyber-obsession on [...]
Posted in gender & feminism, law & order, Meta | Tagged activism/charity, law, peeves |
By tigtog on March 8, 2007
This post has been edited to improve clarity A sly lurker sent me an email yesterday asking about various customisations installed on this blog, especially one that sie hadn’t seen elsewhere. I have installed several plug-ins added to the basic WordPress files, as well as tweaking the K2 theme template that I use (a template [...]
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By tigtog on February 7, 2007
I’ve added a couple of new functions for comments. 1. HTML quicktags – for easy text-formatting and link insertion. Highlight the text you want formatted/linked and click on the appropriate tag-button. 2. Email subscription to comments – you can subscribe with or without commenting, and unsubscribe when you get bored. Enjoy. PS. I also got [...]
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By tigtog on January 24, 2007
Bear with me while I upgrade the blog software. Hopefully downtime will be minimal. UPDATE: Done. Easy-peasy. And gravatars are working again! (In Firefox, anyway. Gravatars are spotty in Internet Exploder with it’s silly idiosyncratic approach to HTML compliance. Honestly, if you’re still using IE as your browser, do check out Mozilla Firefox: Free Download [...]
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By tigtog on November 28, 2006
Edited to add: yes, I know this is an utterly obnoxious post. Sometimes I just have those sort of days. Call me a meanyhead, but I can’t decide whether he’s more of a paranoid whiner or a clueless wanker. Neither of those terms have any current significant googlebombing attached, but which to choose as anchor [...]
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By tigtog on November 21, 2006
The blogging is going to be patchy over the next few weeks leading up to my holiday in Europe over Giftmas and New Year. I not only have to sort out all the insurance, passport renewals and luggage weight limits, I also have to tidy up the house sufficiently that the family friend’s young adult [...]
Posted in arts & entertainment, Meta | Tagged blogging, photoblog, photography |
By tigtog on October 28, 2006
Bear with me if the title banner or other stuff looks different today, or if the sidebar disappears or something. I’m playing around with the template again, ‘cos I wants me some rotating banners, and that means changing to K2.
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That blogging “code of conduct”
By tigtog on April 12, 2007
While I applaud the sentiment of those advocating a formal bloggers’ code of conduct, I think their approach is ultimately doomed to failure.
Posted in Meta | Tagged blogging, code of conduct, comments policy, cyberbullying, interblog, moderation | 1 Response