Can’t be anyone in the London NooMeeja scene without a blog. So here’s mine. Welcome to the New Blog in Town – 10 July 2002 That was the sum total of the first post on this blog which was made ten years ago today. I like to think that some of the subsequent posts were… Continue reading Ten Years in an Open-Necked Blog
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Dorries Round-Up
Update (28th October): I’ve just been shown The Nardinia Chronicles, a new blog with a lot of detail about Dorries’ idiocy. A round-up of all of the blog posts that have been made about Nadine Dorries since she was cleared by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards last Thursday. If anything is missing then please let… Continue reading Dorries Round-Up
She Writes Fiction
Given what we now know about the content of Nadine Dorries’ blog, the title of this post (which I’ve reused here) seems somewhat appropriate. Dorries must have known that John Lyon’s report on her was about to be published so it might be seen as slightly disingenuous to write about other people publishing fiction as… Continue reading She Writes Fiction
Comments
In the middle of last week I upgraded this site to Movable Type 5. And at (I assume) the same time comments stopped working. It seems that it was some incompatibility between the MT5 Javascript that drives the comment system and the old MT4 templates that I was using. I’ve now rebuilt the site using… Continue reading Comments
Overcomplicating Matters
It is, of course, a truism that the larger and more complex a project is, the less likely it is to come in on budget, on spec or in time. When the project in question involves IT, the chances of any of the original targets being met approach zero. This is why one of the… Continue reading Overcomplicating Matters
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)
Blog URLs
Argh. I’ve just noticed that having rebuilt all of the entries in the blog, the URLs have all changed. For example the URL of my entry about finding Perl programmers in London has changed from http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/2007/02/perl-programmer.html to http://blog.dave.org.uk/2007/02/perl-programmer.html. They’ve dropped the “archives” directory. No doubt there’s a good reason for it, but until I put… Continue reading Blog URLs
Blog Status
I’ve had a bit of a play, and I’m not convinced that Movable Type Open Source 4.1 is quite as stable as Six Apart want us to think it is. Yesterday I was having trouble publishing pages. I was getting timeouts which were leading to 500 errors. I still haven’t been able to republish all… Continue reading Blog Status