The plugin which automatically fetches links from delicious.com and posts them to this blog went wrong last night. So it seems like as good a moment as any to stop posting them to this blog altogether, since they are all posted to A London Salmagundi as well.
If you want to keep reading the links but [...]
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No more links
26 February 2010 – 9:48 am
Announcing Salmagundi
8 February 2010 – 2:55 pm
I’ve got a new little side project, Salmagundi, which is a Tumblr-powered short-form, scrapbooky type blog-thing where I can post assorted bits and pieces — photos, links, amusing cat videos — that I find on the internet. A web-log in the original sense.
Which probably means I’ll stop the automatic link posts here, and keep this [...]
Housekeeping
19 December 2009 – 11:53 pm
Something went wrong with my WordPress upgrade, and I was still trying to sort it out when my computer died, and that took several hours to rescue (and involved reformatting the hard drive, reinstalling the system and restoring my files from a backup)… so I still haven’t sorted this blog yet. I don’t have access [...]
Happy bloggiversary to me.
9 October 2009 – 2:09 pm
It’s five years since I started Heraclitean Fire — or Stormy Petrel, as it was then called — using a Python-based Slashdot clone called ‘Squishdot’. Which was probably a silly idea even then, and was only because I had set up a wiki using a free hosting service that was based on Zope… but still, [...]
Apologies for the lack of posts
1 September 2009 – 12:00 pm
If I’d been better blogger recently you might have got my thoughts about things like the weirdness of the US healthcare debate (you’d think that the aim of universal healthcare was laughably naive starry-eyed utopianism, rather than something that every other wealthy country has already achieved), Manchester United’s prospects for the season (I’m worried they’ll [...]
Testing, testing.
27 March 2009 – 3:40 pm
Testing a cunning scheme to feed an abbreviated version of my blog’s RSS feed to Facebook.
Hello everyone
22 March 2009 – 3:39 pm
Apologies for the lack of blogging recently. Hopefully you all use RSS readers so you haven’t been wasting time checking to see if I’ve posted anything new.
A part of the reason is that I think Twitter has been cannibalising my blog posting a bit. For example, the peregrine I saw over the park a few [...]
Some site housekeeping stuff
9 February 2009 – 3:10 pm
The very observant among you may notice that my separate book page has disappeared. That’s because I’ve increasingly been blogging about all the books I read anyway, so it just meant I was duplicating the information. And since I started posting to Goodreads, the situation is even more ridiculous, with me effectively posting the same text in [...]
Links of the year 2008
3 January 2009 – 5:53 pm
A not very methodical selection of about 50 links from the 300 or so I posted last year.
amazing camera — Anne of Green Gables
beachobatics — Billys and Charleys — Björk on television
cat playing the theramin — Chicago storefront churches — collapsing USA — CSS Homer — curators at work
Detroit dancing
financial meltdown — forehead wrinkles — fossil bird
Galileo’s magic trick — ghost slugs
hairy women — head-tracking 3D display — hermit [...]
Happy birthday to… Heraclitean Fire.
3 October 2008 – 9:26 am
My blog turns four today! That first post four years ago (when the blog was called stormy petrel) wasn’t actually very interesting, but hey-ho.
Mmmm, Smarties.
» The picture, from Flickr, is © Luke and/or Kate Bosman and used under a by-nc-nd licence.
Links of the year 2007
3 January 2008 – 4:03 pm
After a quick and dirty winnowing-out, here are what might be the best of the links which I posted last year.
Arctic artefacts — Attack of the GIANT NEGROES!!
Bait-Fishing Crows — Beautiful Specimens — bird-eating bats — Building Stonehenge
C19th London snail-gatherers — chilled bees & yellow rain — Chinese building blocks — College Republicans — Cormac [...]
Just a quick plug…
6 October 2007 – 8:13 am
The sixth picture is up at my new photoblog Clouded Drab.
I’m just sayin’.
In non-Internet Explorer related news…
25 September 2007 – 8:25 pm
The release of WordPress 2.3 is my cue to release my photoblog onto the world.
Since this blog, which is comparatively simple in terms of layout, still isn’t working properly in Internet Explorer, I shudder to think what Clouded Drab will look like. But hey-ho, let’s press on regardless. There’s only one photo at the [...]
Polite request
25 September 2007 – 12:25 pm
Could anyone with copies of IE7 and/or IE6 please check to see whether something is working?
The menu on the right is supposed to move up and down as you scroll the window. If I’ve done it right, it should still look the same in Firefox, Opera etc; but in Internet Explorer, it should start in [...]
Oh crap.
24 September 2007 – 9:57 pm
I just got around to testing the new design on Internet Explorer via browsershots, and what do you know, it’s completely fucked up. And for most versions of IE I got an error message; I don’t know what that’s about.
It’s so bloody irritating; why can’t all the various browsers agree on how to render simple [...]
Under construction
18 September 2007 – 3:35 pm
I’m in the process of changing stuff around on the site: you may encounter occasional weirdness.
EDIT: OK, the tweaking process is still going to be ongoing for a little longer and some things aren’t finished, but the new design is now basically live. This is more or less how I want it to look.
Site Redesign
4 September 2007 – 1:10 pm
I’m itching to do yet another site redesign—I have a pretty good idea of what I want and a working test version of it, allowing for a bit of tweaking—but I think it makes sense to wait until the release of WordPress 2.3 so I don’t have to worry about any compatibility issues. I’m considering [...]
Wordpress 2.2 upgrade hitches
16 May 2007 – 3:32 pm
Apologies for the slight messiness: I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.2—don’t know why, really, it’s not like there are any compelling new features—and at least one of my normal plugins is broken. I should have a work-around up soon.
EDIT: OK, I think everything’s just about working now. If anything seems broken, give me a shout. [...]
Books books books
3 May 2007 – 12:00 pm
I’ve posted a few thoughts on the books I read in Crete (a couple of novels by Kazantzakis, some Marquez, Seferis, books on the Battle of Crete and resistance, Aristophanes), which can be found via my ‘What I’ve been reading’ page.
New section: Music & Books
14 March 2007 – 4:43 pm
If you’re very observant, you may noticed a new link in the sidebar: Music and Books. I’ve been gradually tweaking it to my satisfaction, and you can now not only see a list of the ten most recent songs I’ve listened to and the ten most recent books I’ve read, but click through to see [...]
Death to the wiki
11 March 2007 – 9:08 am
I think I might kill off The Poetry Wiki, since no-one is using it and it just provides an opportunity for spammers.
New improved photo page
27 February 2007 – 3:44 pm
With the help of a neat little application called PictoBrowser, I’ve tarted up the page with my Flickr photos. PictoBrowser should work even if you prefer reading the site with one of the old themes, but to get the full effect of my redecorating, you need to be using the ‘scallop‘ theme.
Sexy CSS
19 February 2007 – 8:37 pm
And no, I’m not referring to Cansei der Ser Sexy. I’m referring to the ingenious way I hacked a WordPress plugin and then did some CSS wizardry to make it display the way I wanted, so that, for a short time only, you can see my Archives By Date the way I want them.
Only slight [...]