stood up by Iris

I had a blind date this morning at 06.55. An early start admittedly but this lady would surely be worth it. The lady’s name was Iris. I was supposed to meet her in Terminal 1 at London Heathrow. Iris was flying in from Russia after a short courtship (19 hours) on the Internet. I even had an letter (IM) from Iris. Iris said she’d be waiting on the right before you reach the shops (which was worrying enough in itself). ...

October 3, 2006

from the mouths of babes

I recently read some homework (Religious Education) about the life and times of Jesus Christ that included the following gems: Jesus came to earth through the Virgin Mary There was another incident where Jesus was crucified

October 2, 2006

blog editors

The WordPress rich text editor is pretty good but has an odd bug which is a little irritating. It keeps confusing paragraph end with line break I tried Writely which worked but has no support for adding categories, omits the title and uses an obscure post slug so now I am trying Performancing for Firefox which has none of these limitations and works fine.

October 2, 2006

from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

Choose domain name which is taken. Choose another domain name. Sign-up with Dreamhost despite recent bad press. All the other hosting providers look similar and all have supporters and critics and, to be fair, Dreamhost were quickest (and most helpful) to reply to a simple technical enquiry. Payment processing takes a long, long time which is a little disconcerting. Install WordPress 2.0.4 using One-Click installation. Shortly receive email stating ‘Blog creation failed. Please try again later’ which is worrying. ...

September 30, 2006

The End

Someone ripped my blog off. And it looks better than mine. That’s it. It’s over. Finished. Goodbye.

September 29, 2006