I’ve finally finished upgrading this site, Annalena’s site, and Squidblog to Wordpress 2.0. You shouldn’t notice any changes from your side of the glass/lcd, but apparently Wordpress has been totally revamped under the hood. So far it has gone smoothly, with no hitches in sight. But if you happen to notice something going wrong don’t […]

Here we go … I’ve finally set it up on the new server, and I am keen to get back to some serious flippant blogging. I just hope you don’t mind me staring down at you while you read my rants.
I’m still not totally happy with the site layout, but it will suffice. I think […]

In my post About “Dubbings and Diversions” I wrote:
“Despite the enormity of the blog universe…”
On reading this Jacqui pointed out to me that, contrary to popular usage, enormity actually means “Extreme or monstrous wickedness”, just as enormous means “Deviating from ordinary rule or type; abnormal, unusual, extraordinary, unfettered by rules; hence, mostly in bad […]

I thought I’d begin by answering a few fundamental questions about this blog.
Motivation: Self indulgence, curiosity/experimentation, geekness, procrastination … I’ve been following the evolution of blogs for a while, but didn’t really think seriously about doing one myself until quite recently. The main reason for this has been the influence of a few other bloggers, […]