Random burblings since 1999
Tired. Ohhh so very tired. Think I’ve got a wee bug of some sort that is sapping me of all my energy.
Bleuch.
Whilst I remember, any Firefox users out there? How do I get rid of the ‘remembered’ form information. It’s annoying the crap outta me having to remember to change the URL in ever comment box I visit. I’d rather wipe out all the entries and start over. Help!
So, it’s live. Ish. Almost. Well it IS live. Taking submissions and all that. There are a few minor tweaks to be sorted, but overall I’m happy with it.
The main problem has been figuring a way to handle both the webring AND a “directory” site. In the end I decided to leave them as separate entities as getting the two systems talking was just proving too darn hard (especially as one of the systems is outwith my control).
It’s been fun really, learning all this new PHP stuff, and that process will continue as I tweak the site, fix known bugs, add new features, but for the meantime I’m just happy to say that THE NEW SCOTTISH BLOGS SITE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
Thanks to those of you who helped out by answering all my stupid questions, it was very much appreciated, as ever, and I know this site has little bearing on a lot of you, but I REALLY would appreciate some feedback – ohh and I’ll be hand checking all the new sites for the first wee while, so no funny business!
Scooby snacks. Name your favourite.
It’s Monday morning. Ain’t that great! The birds are singing, the sun is shining, a light breeze ruffles the leaves in the trees. Ain’t life grand.
If you want to achieve a similar outlook on a Monday morning simply follow these instructions – they worked for me:
1. Ensure your personal listening device (iPod) is playing something loud and uptempo – Foo Fighters, All My Life was on mine.
2. Start thinking about what your day holds as you finish the short walk from the station to your office.
3. Glance round as you start to cross the road.
4. Spin round suddenly as you realise you’ve just stepped out in front of a large lorry, which is moving quite fast.
5. Revel in the adrenalin rush as your heart reaches 250 b.p.m.
Simple.
Feel free to alter the specifics of the instructions, you could be walking to the shop, it could be a road sweeper rather than a lorry (although that wouldn’t really be that scary now would it…), just remember that the main aim is to get that adrenalin flowing, raise your heartbeat, leave a tight, sicky feeling in your stomach and a slight tremor in your hands.
Then all you need to do is wobble into work, plonk yourself down and enjoy the rest of your day life.
Not only is the title of this post a rather good album by the Pet Shop Boys (one of my favs), but it also sums up the last few weeks of both my life, the real bit, and my life, the blog bit.
Got a lot going on ya see, and I tend to be bad at focussing on the things that are important (my current project at work) with a tendency to focus on the easy stuff (switching hosts for this ‘hobby’ site of mine).
I’ve talked before at being bad at keeping in touch, and I’m already resigned to that fate I guess, but every now and again I catch myself and mentally scold myself for falling back into that “do what’s easy” trap. I know it is because of a lack of confidence, and knowing that does actually help me deal with that habit of mine but it still annoys.
Anyway…
How is everyone else?
Front Garden – top view, uploaded by Gordon.
So here are the results of a heavy weekend’s work – just to the right (out of shot) is a large 30 year old cherry blossom tree. Roots everywhere meant fun with an axe, definitely feel like more of a ‘real man’ now, what with all that lumberjack action.
And no, I don’t wear suspenders and a bra (well not ALL the time).