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The actual blogging bits of stuff

Upgrading

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,… Read More ›

Counting down

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,… Read More ›

Tweakin’

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.

Link garden

Because my real garden got just a bit crisped last week and nothing is at its best for photographing. But my purple prose can always bloom in service to the garden of blogular delights:

Done something silly

I was trying to tweak my comments code, and now seem to have managed to make the text of the actual posts disappear if you try to view them on a single page. You can still see the comments, but… Read More ›

That’s a relief

Sometime last night my entire domain disappeared due to a web-hosting hiccup. Once I discovered this and let them know they had it back up in half an hour though, so thankyou webhosts!

Now I see you, now I don’t

Mio caro sposo decided to faff around with our ‘Net configuration – new voice-router for webphone etc, integrated into our home LAN. It’s not working entirely as advertised, meaning I have had intermittent ‘Net access at best the last few… Read More ›

Grogblogging about town

Last night we had a Sydney grogblogmeet at The Clock in Crown Street, with a Larvatus Prodeobloggers’ meetup for dinner beforehand. The excuse for both was Mark Bahnisch‘s venturing south from Brisvegas. I finally got to meet Mark, Shaun, Liam… Read More ›

Eek! the geek meme

This one’s really got legs – all my US e-mates who don’t even usually do memes are doing this one. Behold, I am a Modern, Cool Nerd 82% Nerd, 65% Geek, 26% Dork