Tag: blogging
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In Which I Express Praise For My Sister
Normal blogging will resume shortly, but I just wanted to quickly take advantage of a period of strong mobile signal as I sit on this Thames Travel bus (oh yeah: I'm in Oxford for a few days) to share with you a feeling of warm fuzziness I experienced earlier today. (note: this blog post took …
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Catch-Up: Concerts
Yes, it's true, I'm bad at blogging. But as we all know, weblogs suck anyway. Regardless: here's the long-awaited catchup of my whereabouts and doings of the last week (as all I'd previously said is that I'd left and that I'd got back again.
Claire and I went to Preston a week last Thursday evening, for … -
So I’m Sat At Work…
...minding my own business, and some random guy walks in through the office door, looking lost. Nobody seems to get up to see to him, so I - in my new desk, which is quite close to the door - go over to greet him. "Is there;" he begins, sounding a little unsure of himself, …
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Blogspam A Problem… No More
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I've been getting more than my fair share of blogspam of late. I've been spending about twenty minutes every three or so days clearing out the 'moderation' queue and updating my keyword lists. Worse still, some spam has been getting through nonetheless (hopefully I've always been quick to remove …
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The Gender Genie
The Gender Genie is quite remarkable. Copy-paste a heap of your journal entries (and state that journal entries is what they are) and it will attempt to guess your gender, based on the language used (and partially explain it's reasoning).
I'm apparently male, with a two-thirds certainty. Not bad. -
Apathetic Journal Entry Generator
Generate apathetic journal entries automatically. This tool revolutionises blogging for those sad fucks who only uses their weblogs to say that they haven't done much and that they haven't had time to update, sorry (in case anybody's reading it). I mean, really - do you actually have nothing to write about?
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Damn My Buggy Code!
Whoops! As a result of some buggy code I'd written, my recent 'blog entries didn't get cross-posted to LiveJournal, as they usually do - it turns out that the cross-posting code I wrote only works if I write my entire blog entry at once... and my recent entries have been quite long and so I've …
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Tis late and I'm on the net... Wow, it's almost like being back in…
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Ruth wrote:
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Dan's journal appears to be broken.
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Thankyou
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Fiona wrote:
You have made me both think and laugh tonight Dan. Thank you.
Thank you Paul, you got me in to this- it is my main way of being in touch with all of you.
Thank you all for posting, I often feel as if it should … -
Claire Seems Distracted
[this post was damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has not been possible to recover it]
[this post was partially recovered on 12 October 2018]
Claims tiredness. Suspect she's stressed about upcoming exams. Hope that it's one or the other.
A handful of my friends keep posting entries to their 'blogs rapidly, … -
Hacking Around With LiveJournal
If this all works to-plan, my recent changes to Scatmania will mean that every time I make a new entry, a link is posted to a journal on LiveJournal. This will allow my friends to monitor my blog from their 'friends lists', in AbNibs absence.
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Thursday Afternoon
Good progress at work today, easily catching up on the things I didn't get done yesterday on account of having been at the Royal Welsh Show.
AbNib is proving itself popular, but I'm still not happy with it: there are a load of really cool features I'd like to add, yet. But that's a job for … -
AbNib
I'm almost ready to launch AbNib (main site may be down during development, but try the temporary mirror), a site dedicated to the weblogs of Aberites: people who live in or love Aberystwyth.
There are some funky new and cool features to come. But this is a weblog-community in the making.
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Uninteresting Blogging
I really hate uninteresting blogs. The kind which consists of a single entry every week or two, and every time it states "Sorry I haven't made any updates recently. (insert excuse here) I've not been up to much recently anyway." Every week! Sad but true.
That rant aside, here's a fantastic example of exactly what I'm … -
Thoughts Of Tuesday
Cycling home last night I realised once again quite what a happy bunny I am. I enjoy my job, for which I am paid very reasonably. I live in a town that I love, and I'm surrounded by good friends. And, above all else, I have the love of a beautiful woman whom I love …