Celebration
Posted: Thu 16 December, 2004 Filed under: News 1 Comment »Yes. Just had the call, and got the job based in Bracknell. It’s less money than the one in London – but it’s also meaning I won’t be doing 4+ hours of commuting per day.
Swings and Roundabouts, but for now I’m just happy to have the job, and something concrete to go to once I’ve moved.
Yay!
Waving
Posted: Thu 16 December, 2004 Filed under: General Leave a comment »So there goes Blunkett, riding off into the sunset. I wonder how many journalists were wanting to use the phrase “Blunkett was shown the door”? I’d love to say I was sorry to see him go, but at the end of the day Blunkett scared me for the simple reason that he actually managed to make Jack Straw look reasonable. An impressive task, but not strictly a positive one.
I wonder what this’ll do to the “need” for identity cards?
Normal Service?
Posted: Thu 16 December, 2004 Filed under: Geeky Leave a comment »Well, it looks like ‘normal’ service has been resumed chez Blogger. A “misconfigured router” that chuffed things for the greater part of yesterday. We’ll see how things go today, anyway.
As for WordPress and the problems I was having with it, they came down to a number of things. Not least among them is that fact that (unless I’ve missed it somewhere along the line) wordpress only seems to work when it’s index.php. The problem on d4d™ is that – well – this part isn’t the only section on the site. It’s on a page of its own, and WP really doesn’t seem to like it. So I’m going to have to work to create a new directory where this lot can go as index.php and work from there – oh, and write some rules to redirect people from /random.html to /random/index.php. Bit of a pain in the arse, but still doable. The other problem, which led to three re-installs is that WP really didn’t appear to like Opera – I reset the admin password and everything died, wouldn’t let me in at all, and so it was another reinstall. I ended up doing all that guff in Firefox instead.
So now I just need to figure out the templating stuff, and then I can have the real joys of exporting/importing from Blogger to WP. Oh what joy…
Kept Hanging On
Posted: Wed 15 December, 2004 Filed under: General Leave a comment »No news. Still. Grrr. I hate this stuff, waiting for other people to get their acts together in order to tell me what the shit is going on.
Still Buggered
Posted: Wed 15 December, 2004 Filed under: Geeky, General Leave a comment »Ok, I’m now getting really fucked off with this. I’ve been working to get WordPress installed after all, which has been – well, interesting would be a tactful phrase. But we’re getting there, having had one or two hassles. I haven’t started work on the template yet, that’s next on the list. The CSS is kind-of there and ready, although that may need some tweaking too. And then I’ll work on the rest.
In the meantime, Blogger has reported
A misconfigured router is causing the current mail2blogger, ftp and sftp publishing problems. Our Ops folks are working on it and it will be fixed soon.
Fan-fucking-tastic. It’s only taken them half a day to realise. I know, they’re in the US, blah blah, but all the same, is it too much to ask to have some kind of 24hour support now they’re owned by Google? Obviously so.
Utterly Fucked
Posted: Wed 15 December, 2004 Filed under: General Leave a comment »High-Rise
Posted: Wed 15 December, 2004 Filed under: General Leave a comment »Anyway, while I’m waiting for news, I’m also thinking about next year , where to go, what to see, all that kind of gubbins. And one thing that’s certainly looking like it’ll be on the list is the world’s tallest bridge which was opened this week in France. The highest section is taller than the Eiffel tower. I wonder if it’s got stopping places so you can take photos from it?