Not that the site has been working that well recently, but — that’s kind of the problem. Apparently my site is just too popular, so I’m going to experiment with disabling the Gallery for a time. We should get this sorted out soon, but until them photos will be inaccessible.

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To paraphrase Juvenal: the wrath of New Yorkers may be great, but they certainly are slow. One day crowd-dodging will be up there with parkour as a sport for the easily annoyed. Gah! Slow people are the bane of modern society: if we all walked a little faster, so much more could get done. In [...]

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…and the humidity’s so bad I can barely use the touchpad. I can’t even come up with a workable analogy for New York, so I’ll just say: it’s dirty, dangerous, frequently bad-smelling, unpleasant, aggressive, nasty - but all these things pale into insignificance because it is the most exciting city in the whole damn world. [...]

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Yes, that should do nicely.
I wanted a theme that really has photographs as the centre, and after a little jiggery-pokery this one seems to fit the bill. Slightly annoying when an embarrassing photo of me shoots up at 500 px on the main page, but can’t be helped. (Unfortunately.)
I keep finding myself refreshing the page, [...]

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If there’s one thing I love, it’s breaking something, then fixing it again.
Hence, I just completed a very clumsy but long-awaited upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1. What does it do? Well, I don’t know, but hopefully I’ll have ironed out a couple of the bugs which have inevitably cropped up over my site’s lifespan.
Now to fix [...]

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Oh, it’s all change here, as I dig out my rusty CSS skills to give the site a little bit of a mocha-and-cream makeover. For a ten-minute palette swap, I’m reasonably pleased with it all. I just hope the Gallery still works, in my metaphorical dusting-off of the site.
(edit) Actually, I think I prefer the [...]

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I’m not entirely sure if anyone still checks this blog, but if I do have a loyal readership (thank you!), you are advised that I am now writing for the UKotaku blog, so get over there and check me out! I have this killer article planned in the near future.
It hardly seems possible. But on [...]

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A notification that I will be writing for John’s UKOtaku blog, and my first article is my rip-roaringly awesome review of Polysics live at the Carling Academy Islington, February 9th 2008!

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Going through the statistics for my site is absolutely fascinating.
For example, after I posted my photos from Nikko, bandwidth shot up to 483MB, up from 169MB the day before. Wednesday is the most popular day. The vast majority of visitors are based in the US, followed distantly by the UK and Australia. I have had [...]

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First I find out that Gmail has been sticking legitimate messages in the Spam folder, now I discover Thunderbird has been ignoring e-mails for some reason… that is to say, I logged into the Gmail webmail service and discovered a bunch of replies that Thunderbird hadn’t seen, possibly because they were threaded. Bleh.
I think I [...]

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