Friends and Codes

Reading time: 2 mins Blimey, a fairly busy week or so of overly gluttonous introspection in blogland. No surprise I guess but this time round it has been fairly forthright and more vociferous than usual. I’ve linked to a few of the following before, but, pulled together they encapsulate most of what has been said. I think. It all…

Content in the City

Reading time: 3 mins Various recent events have me pondering. At what point does the amount of digital content we have become a burden? In the age of “more”, when does “a lot”, become “too much”? Why do I have Carrie Bradshaw’s voice in my head? Leaving the exquisite Ms. Parker (or Mrs. Broderick if you prefer) to one…

Tilt head for info

Reading time: < 1 min click. bsssszzz, k-chunk. click-klack. Bzzzzzz kvrrrummm whiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. “Importing….” “Import Complete” click. bsssszzz, k-chunk. click-klack. Bzzzzzz kvrrrummm whiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Repeat ad infinitum. Or, as has been the case, for about 10 CDs at one sitting. I have a lot of CDs and one day they will all be in the loft, gathering dust, replaced by their digital…

Gripes and Groans

Reading time: 2 mins I know a few of you use Movable Type. If so, how do you build a test system? For WordPress work I use XAMPP on my PC, it’s an absolute doddle. There are Perl add-ons for XAMPP, and I found a guide to installing Movable Type in a XAMPP system but the buggering thing won’t…

Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep

Reading time: 3 mins OK. Despite the fact I bemoaned this very web service a few weeks back I have since signed up and sent… Actually, hold up a minute. You know, I have stood infront of a room full of strangers, the midst of a presentation on blogging, and said “I hate the word blogging”. Blogging is an…

Not simple, Civic

Reading time: 4 mins I KNEW this would happen, in fact I should’ve publically predicted it and made it look like I had this planned all along. Hey, wait a minute… you don’t KNOW that I didn’t have it planned. Shoot. Oh well… Yesterday I was prattling on about how I was increasingly favouring simple, functional things and slowly…