It seems that being a self-hosting entity may bring with it its own set of problems, specifically, the interaction between the software, databases and template. (Lawks, I hope I have these terms correct.) Yesterday my pages spent a few hours telling me that there were no entries here. Today, the template disappeared completely for a while. However, both problems disappeared of their own accord. If anything really weird does turn up, please let your hopeful author know by email.
I continue to tinker with the display. A plugin now generates in the near sidebar a menu of random posts that changes each time you load the main page. Anything from before April 2004 will be password-protected (my life then tended to complexity and my writing about it to frankness) but the rest should fly.
The comments, too, now have a plugin called CommentLuv which will link to your most recent post if you provide a URL when commenting. Thus the hordes that trample through these pages may trample back to you. If there weren’t a cohort of perhaps twenty of us all reading and commenting on each other’s posts anyway, this would be a truly brilliant addition. It’s hard being part of an elitist clique.
You will I hope be pleased to know it isn’t so hot today. Twenty-six degrees and cloudy is pleasant for both the señor and me and our doggy overlords.
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You’re becoming a “fast blogger”, I might have to kick you out of the club we’ve just formed. Hence it would become a club of one. No, wait, there’s Robyn who doesn’t post very often. Robyn, do you want to be part of a slow bloggers’ elitist clique?
Giovanni’s last blog post..A Harvest Bird Compendium
If the admin were be so kind as to shift my last apostrophe a little to the right, it hurts my eyes in its current position.
Giovanni’s last blog post..A Harvest Bird Compendium
These posts are an aberration. Over five years I have formed a pattern: a new server, lots of posts for about two months, then a long slow silence. You could say I’ve fallen off the wagon, or that I’m distracted by new and shiny things.
The apostrophe shift is done, but wouldn’t a clique of one be truly elitist? Are we not all running around in little tiny elites?
I for one have at least 5 tiny little cliques of one each within my own tiny little clique of me. It’s fine, we all respect each others need to be loved.
These posts are an aberration.
Oh, don’t take me seriously, I’m just cranky, and boring, and (judging from the most recent efforts) illiterate today. Post to your heart’s content!
Giovanni’s last blog post..A Harvest Bird Compendium
Giovanni: “Don’t take me seriously, I’m just cranky and boring” would make an excellent — t-shirt slogan? Office nameplate? Opening line of a sermon?
Merc: the clique within the clique–must be a micro-clique, the most elite of all!
I’m trying to get back on the wagon of posting more regularly. My most recent infrequentness was due to the ethernet socket on my iBook getting loose, meaning my interwebs kept disconnecting and… It was a blerloody hassle.
But I have a wireless router now, and therefore one less excuse.
Robyn’s last blog post..Twitter ate my 2008
I find it very hard to predict whether I’m going to have the energy and enthusiasm for posting or not. Because writing online is my hobby and something I enjoy, I don’t want it to become a chore, and sometimes–particularly when I’m stressed at work–it feels like that. On other occasions, however, I have a kind of hyped-up energy for writing (which is more or less how I’m feeling at the moment) and posting seems easy. It’s almost like I have to sneak up on it.
I remember when harvestdad first starting using the internets at his then-work (about ‘95 I think) and was explaining to me what an ethernet connection was and how it was different from a internal modem, which in turn was different from the external modem. The thought that one day we would all be wired with something so fast and so powerful, and from it wirelessly routed, would have been extraordinary even as recently as then.