I’ve got a cold and accidentally took Night Nurse instead of Day Nurse, so apart from the general blearghness of the cold, I’m a bit dopey. If I start rambling incoherently, you know why.
But that isn’t what I was going to say. The winners of the Wordpress theme competition I entered have been announced. No [...]
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Wordpress 2.0 Theme Competition – winners announced
18 May 2006 – 1:42 pm
Announcing Macaws 1.0
9 May 2006 – 5:28 pm
I probably should have played safe and released it as 0.1, but never mind. Since the Wordpress 2.0 Theme Competition is now closed for entries, it seems like a good moment to officially release the theme I entered. It’s already available on the Official Wordpress Theme Viewer, but you can also get it from my [...]
New theme, again.
8 May 2006 – 4:23 pm
I expect you’ve noticed the site looks different. Unless you read it through an RSS reader, of course. Much as I like the scarab design, I think it’s a bad thing that the title is liable to get pushed off the bottom of the window on smaller screens and browsers with too many toolbars. That [...]
Hiatus
3 April 2006 – 8:59 pm
Tomorrow I’m going to Spain for three weeks. I expect I’ll get to an internet café and blog something sooner or later, but I don’t know when that’s likely to be. I’m planning to keep napowrimoing, and I’ll post them when I get the chance.
Monthly searches
31 March 2006 – 8:47 pm
some search-engine queries that led to this blog in March:
racism against blacks photo
self portrait poems about laughter
-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-10
ashley cole is a muslim
pictures of peacocks mating
ten different animals that live in the sea
exotic beach bunns
England vs. India
23 March 2006 – 4:59 pm
I must admit, after the humiliation in Pakistan, I was starting to lose faith, but England’s performance to tie the series in India without Vaughan, Trescothick, Simon Jones or Ashley Giles, and for the last game without Harmison and Cook as well, was seriously impressive.
BTW, isn’t Marcus Trescothick just the perfect name for the hero [...]
Search terms for February
1 March 2006 – 1:39 pm
Some faves:
blogs about sir henry raeburn
very sex
transfigured joke
pictures of singing mice
pictures of the ancient pulse of germ and birth
naughty schoolboy poems
top ten animals that rule
what would bentham think of cannabis
difference between dinosaurs and reptiles
coughing and racism
building a fire in the wildness
web design stuff
6 February 2006 – 4:37 pm
The more time I spend thinking about web design, the more easily irritated I am. Take Spork. Look at that lovely, stylish, front cover: it manages to have something of a print aesthetic without being heavy-handed, and it’s clear, simple and eye-catching. Classy.
But then you click on the names, and the links open as new [...]
Pope’s ‘An Essay on Criticism’
1 February 2006 – 4:51 pm
All Fools have still an Itching to deride,
And fain wou’d be upon the Laughing Side;
Whatever Nature has in Worth deny’d,
She gives in large Recruits of needful Pride;
Be not the first by whom the New are try’d,
Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside.
(Thus Wit, like Faith by each Man is apply’d
To one small Sect, [...]
January Google search terms
31 January 2006 – 10:31 pm
just the usual monthly pick of searches people used to end up at this blog.
correlation fire female
how to make a death mask
bee eater sculptures
8. what is a narwhal?
cardboard tables and bookshelves
and, what might be my new all-time favourite:
looking to be an embalming apprentice in london
New Theme
30 January 2006 – 4:58 pm
I’ve come up with a new design for the site, as I think should be pretty obvious. If you prefer the calmer qualities of the old look, there’s now a theme switcher in the sidebar so you can pick your favourite. The scarab picture is used by kind permission of elina. Fab, innit?
The main problem [...]
Diaries and such
25 January 2006 – 9:40 pm
On Radio 4 today, they were talking about the editing process for John Fowles’ journals [you know, the guy who wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman], and I found myself thinking “I’ve never managed to maintain a diary for more than a couple of days”. Which is an odd thing to say, when this blog has [...]
Wordpress upgrade
16 January 2006 – 2:46 pm
Well, I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.0 – despite the fact that they’re probably about to release 2.0.1 - and so far so good. Most (all?) of the changes are things which aren’t visible to you lot. It seems generally nicer to use, though the WYSIWYG editor doesn’t like Safari. *shrug*. The new Admin pages are [...]
The Poetry Wiki, again
5 January 2006 – 9:24 pm
Julie, in the comments a couple of posts down the page, said:
Harry,
I’ve gotten emails from people who’ve checked out the wiki and think it’s a neat idea, though none of them are playing. Yet? I hope so.
I think one reason that The Poetry Wiki didn’t take off in its previous incarnation is that, psychologically, it’s [...]
The Poetry Wiki, back by popular demand
4 January 2006 – 12:41 am
Or, to be more accurate, back in the face of overwhelming public apathy except from Julie.
Since I’ve got the spare bandwidth and everything, I’ve started a new wiki to replace The Poetry Wiki. I’ve called it ‘The Poetry Wiki‘. Original, I know. It just makes more sense to have everything in the same place.
I’ve used [...]
Search queries for December
31 December 2005 – 2:14 pm
The overwhelmingly popular search-term leading to this blog this month has been ‘darren gough’, variations of which accounted for about 20-25% of people who got here via a search engine.
Some other hits:
ideas for a narrative prose
hair on fire picture
foxy stuff
poems about doritos
is strictly come dancing racist
branding cow silhouette
quotes . the female of the species is [...]
Drugs, hypocrisy and baby milk
29 December 2005 – 10:59 pm
Most of the people I’ve known over the years who were keen to boycott products from Nestlé (evil baby milk) or South Africa (apartheid, at the time) or Nike (sweatshops) took drugs.
I don’t think it’s any better to give money to organised crime than to give it to Nike. Which is one reason I don’t [...]
Christmas
25 December 2005 – 11:40 am
A lot of you will have already seen this, but anyway:
Happy Christmas!
searchy searchy
30 November 2005 – 12:00 am
search engine queries this month include:
david cameron t-shirt
australia lose again
easy fire poems
london subcultures
who wrote the albatross poem?
songs about going on holiday
strange pictures public domain
kinds of conflicts emerge in the collaborative writing of wikis?
man faring needy
For a short time only - valid XHTML *and* CSS!
18 November 2005 – 10:18 am
It’s not that I go out of my way to use non-standards compliant HTML or CSS, but some of the specs seem pretty petty (tags must be lower case, img tags must have an ‘alt’ quality, you have to close your break tags), so I certainly can’t guarantee that the site will remain valid for [...]