So today was the day that I was called a “sack of shit” by one of the UK’s most popular political bloggers. It was all pretty silly really. I didn’t even really disagree with what he had written. I just pointed out that his blog entry had two completely unattributed quotations. It’s Iain’s blog, of… Continue reading Polite Discourse
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Review of 2009: Favourite Posts
Following on from my earlier list of the most popular posts on this site over the last year, here is a list of my favourite posts. As last year, I’ve chosen one from each month. HopeNot many posts to choose from in January so I’ve chosen one where I tried to sum up the hope… Continue reading Review of 2009: Favourite Posts
Review of 2009: Most Popular Posts
Last year I experimented with writing a couple of posts that summarised the year on davblog. It was interesting (if only because it gave me some useful perspective on what I’d been doing over the year) so I’m going to do the same for 2009. In this post I’ll look at the ten most read… Continue reading Review of 2009: Most Popular Posts
Review of 2008: Favourite Posts
As promised a couple of days ago, here are my favourite posts from this year. I’ve chosen one from each month and they are listed chronologically. Colossal Caving AdventureA piece about my experiences trying out “adventure caving” in Cheddar Gorge. I really didn’t enjoy it very much. This Film is Not Yet RatedI enjoyed the… Continue reading Review of 2008: Favourite Posts
Review of 2008: Most Popular Posts
This blog has been running for over six years and I’ve never done a review of the year before – so this is all very experimental. Today I’m going to list the ten most popular entries from this year (as measured by number of views) and tomorrow I’ll list my ten favourite entries. So here… Continue reading Review of 2008: Most Popular Posts
Oops
I had a little bit of an accident over the weekend when I accidentally started to restore an old back-up of the database that runs this blog. I noticed what I what I was doing pretty quickly and stopped it before too much damage was done. But I lost the last few days entries and… Continue reading Oops
Blog Fixed (Hopefully)
Regular readers will know that this blog has experienced some problems over the last few months. Since I last moved to new hardware this blog has been running really slowly and more often than not any attempt to publish content (whether a blog entry or a comment) has ended with a server error. This has… Continue reading Blog Fixed (Hopefully)
More Blog Progress
Made some progress on restoring the old blog entries yesterday. I managed to get the old web server working long enough to export the blog data and I’ve successfully imported it into this installation. Over the next few hours I’ll try to get the pages rebuilt. At the same time (never let it be said… Continue reading More Blog Progress
Top 100 British Blogs
These kinds of things are always very dubious, but top 100 lists are always fun to discuss. Blogstorm have published a list of the top 100 British blogs. The list is calculated from some combination of Technorati and Alexa ratings. Good to see a few friends and colleagues on there.
Temporary Bloggerheads
Bloggerheads will return soon, but in the meantime Tim Ireland has set up a temporary blog in order to talk about what happened at the end of last week. As you may have heard, the response by UK bloggers to this issue has been amazing. Over 250 blogs are now following the story. Here’s the… Continue reading Temporary Bloggerheads