*phew* I’ve spent a couple of days figuring out how to transfer all my existing blog material over to Movable Type. Since a lot of it was hand-coded, this was a major pain. Still, I got there in the end.
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Current reading = old reading I never quite made. Mom bought me Stephen King’s Bag of Bones in hardcover back in Christmas ’98. I’m not sure why I never read the thing. I dug it out a few nights ago and when mom saw it she remembered she’d bought it from Asda—where it had been proudly displayed on a stand that proclaimed it King’s Latest (which, at the time, it was).
I’m just over halfway through, and I can say that I’d deprived myself! It’s a really great book. Not very fast-moving, really, but rich in character with lots of intriguing detail. For another opinion, read Kevin Quigley’s review. I’m giving it a big thumb’s-up (of course, if the ending disappoints me, I might go back on this).
Read More »Looking for Stephen King?
Okay. I decided to go for a major site overhaul. The main purpose was to enable greater control of most of the design via CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). So I’ve officially burnt my bridges with old/non-compatible browsers now… a minute’s silence please…
Read More »CSS Has Taken Over
To make this an unofficial tradition (following last Sunday), here are the search engine requests that have brought sundry surfers to this site in the last seven days:
Read More »Still Searching?
Just for trivial interest and amusement: recent search engine strings (mostly via Google) that led people to this site…
Read More »Searching for Something?
Hm. Someone recently suggested Web design as a possible career for me. I’m not really convinced. I mess about with Web design occasionally out of boredom as much as anything else. I’m not sure I enjoy it much, and the results are usually disappointing, because my design skills are never really up to realising what’s in my head.
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I’ve just been fiddling around with how the site looks again. I keep getting to hate how it looks. It’s not a major change… I’ll probably do something else with it in a week or so. A poor excuse for a way to kill time, I expect.
What it really needs is good content! Hmph. Might be foxed on that one.
Read More »What’s the Point?
I’ve just said what is probably my final goodbye to a mailing list I’ve been a member of on and off since way back in the mists of time (well, 1996). I may rejoin at some point, but I doubt it.
It was mostly a Certain Person’s comments. I have had to put up with two years of sarcasm and thinly-veiled nastiness from this individual, and since we actually used to be (supposedly) friends, this was the last straw for me. I was also rather despairing at someone else’s sulking, re. a debate we’d had. Did someone call this place a lively discussion list? I’m afraid that’s been largely untrue for quite some time. And it seems that, now, if you do try to put some life and opinion into a thread on there, you’re accused of making personal attacks.
Read More »A Less Than Fond Farewell