Momentous updates!
19 February 2009 17:03
| Myst, Site info, The Stunted Ring
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Well, I just finished re-posting the Myst V site and The Stunted Ring, neither of which had been available since my move away from .mac. There's no new content to speak of, but they are back in all their dubious and/or faded glory ;-) The Myst V site had the most work done to it, moving the speeches to the sidebar and restoring comments to their rightful place below the entries, instead of being split off into separate pages.
The Carcassonne site still needs updating, but that will have to wait for a bit. View Comments
The Carcassonne site still needs updating, but that will have to wait for a bit. View Comments
All change
Again? What is up with this guy? Why on earth does his blog keep moving?
Well, because it seems like a good idea. Actually, even though the blog hasn't moved very far this time, and despite it still being built with RapidWeaver, this is probably the most significant change since I started blogging back in whenever-it-was. One of the things I've always done in the past is rebuild all of the old content because I wanted the blog to be as comprehensive as possible. So whenever I moved the blog everything needed to be taken along. But this time the principle motivation was the opposite: I wanted to start again from scratch—I really liked the idea of abandoning all the 'legacy' content and procedures that I've built up over the years. If I started from nothing, what would happen?
Take the photography, for instance. Although I was very pleased with the way it was integrated into the old blog, it wasn't really very efficient. The last photo post I made took about a month before I could be bothered to spend the time to sort it out. Finding a more efficient method—say, switching entirely to Flickr, as I'm planning to do now—would also entail going through all the old photos and organising them. But if I just draw a line between old blog and new blog, I can find a new solution and not worry about how that affects all of the earlier content.
One reason for the change taking place now is that, after ten years living in Jena, I (effectively) moved to Magdeburg to take up a position teaching at the university at the start of October. Bearing that in mind, I've backdated all the posts—and tweets—I've made since then. Appropriately enough, the first tweet I made back in October sums the whole thing up neatly.
A new leaf. View Comments
Well, because it seems like a good idea. Actually, even though the blog hasn't moved very far this time, and despite it still being built with RapidWeaver, this is probably the most significant change since I started blogging back in whenever-it-was. One of the things I've always done in the past is rebuild all of the old content because I wanted the blog to be as comprehensive as possible. So whenever I moved the blog everything needed to be taken along. But this time the principle motivation was the opposite: I wanted to start again from scratch—I really liked the idea of abandoning all the 'legacy' content and procedures that I've built up over the years. If I started from nothing, what would happen?
Take the photography, for instance. Although I was very pleased with the way it was integrated into the old blog, it wasn't really very efficient. The last photo post I made took about a month before I could be bothered to spend the time to sort it out. Finding a more efficient method—say, switching entirely to Flickr, as I'm planning to do now—would also entail going through all the old photos and organising them. But if I just draw a line between old blog and new blog, I can find a new solution and not worry about how that affects all of the earlier content.
One reason for the change taking place now is that, after ten years living in Jena, I (effectively) moved to Magdeburg to take up a position teaching at the university at the start of October. Bearing that in mind, I've backdated all the posts—and tweets—I've made since then. Appropriately enough, the first tweet I made back in October sums the whole thing up neatly.
A new leaf. View Comments
‘Bout time
12 October 2008 17:32
| Random musing, Site info
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‘Bout time I posted something. It’s been a chaotic month and I just haven’t found the energy to post anything longer than tweets. I really should use FriendFeed or something to include those in my RSS feed—as if anyone would subscribe! Ha!
Mind you, the fact that I’ve posted to Twitter some 26 times since my last blog post does suggest that micro-blogging has rather quickly become an essential part of my blogging experience (I’ve only been seriously using Twitter since June). The question is whether it has been to the detriment of longer posts on my blog… I don’t think it has, because the process is different; there’s no way I could have blogged from a concert before.
Anyway, I don’t really have much to say in this post—I mainly wanted to break the ice. Tonight I’m off to Magdeburg; tomorrow I have to teach there for the first time. And then I get to explore a bit… Maybe I should take the camera. View Comments
Mind you, the fact that I’ve posted to Twitter some 26 times since my last blog post does suggest that micro-blogging has rather quickly become an essential part of my blogging experience (I’ve only been seriously using Twitter since June). The question is whether it has been to the detriment of longer posts on my blog… I don’t think it has, because the process is different; there’s no way I could have blogged from a concert before.
Anyway, I don’t really have much to say in this post—I mainly wanted to break the ice. Tonight I’m off to Magdeburg; tomorrow I have to teach there for the first time. And then I get to explore a bit… Maybe I should take the camera. View Comments
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