Finalé
Posted: Mon 20 December, 2004 Filed under: General Leave a comment »Yesterday was my final weekend of big train journeys to and from Berkshire. I can’t even begin to describe my feelings about that – I’ve still got some train journeys to do, don’t get me wrong – but the one that’s become a regular fixture over the last six months is no more. That’s quite something – if nothing else it means that I’m not going to be paying Gitboy Branson £200ish per month!
I spent a fair amount of the final journey looking out the windows, watching familiar landmarks go past, wondering when I’ll see them again – and in some cases I wonder if I ever will. One of the things for 2005 will be to pass that bloody driving test, and then the train travel is likely to be a much rarer thing. I’m sure I’ll still do it on occasion, but it’ll be far less common.
I won’t miss the journey that much – there’s going to be a lot of good things happening anyway, and another advantage is that I’ll be getting seven or eight hours per week back simply from not doing this all the time. So far 2005 is looking deeply positive, with many life-changing things going on. I’m currently working on a post about that, and about the changes I’d planned for ’04 and what’s happened with them. That might take some time to write though, so don’t hold your breath.
But in the meantime, life is changing hugely – has already changed hugely. Between now and 04/01/05, I’ve got to do Christmas, move basic stuff between Manchester and Berkshire, sort out things like computers and email, tell loads of people/companies I’ve moved, and start work with a new company. There are bits about Manchester I will miss, and people, but I’ll see them on occasion, and stay in touch. And I’ll be close enough to London that I’ll be able to do most of the stuff that I’ll miss doing in Manchester.
But I won’t miss the bloody train travel.
Faithless
Posted: Mon 20 December, 2004 Filed under: General Leave a comment »Last weekend I was due to be seeing Faithless in concert at the Manchester Apollo, but because of the interviews that I had down in London and Bracknell (and particularly once I’d discovered I was having a second interview on the Monday) I ended up missing the gig. Absolute bummer, because I’ve seen them several times before, and love their gigs, even when the albums haven’t been superb.
So now I’ve just booked tickets to see them at London’s Alexandra Palace on Saturday 30th April. 8.00pm ’til 2.00 am. It’s going to be blinding.
The Move
Posted: Fri 17 December, 2004 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky Leave a comment »Well, on some things I have to say that WordPress is an utter, utter bastard. I’ll get there, I’m sure – and in general it’s a nice bit of kit, but it does have certain aspects that are utterly bastardish.
- only using index.php – I’ve blethered about this already, but it’s still a pain in the arse.
- Templating – I’m going to have some problems with the sweary/non-sweary idea because of the way it does some things. Thought is needed.
- Log-in problems – I’ve now had to rebuild four times because the changing of log-in passwords is – shall we say – volatile. I’m hoping that the upgrade to 1.2.2 will iron out some of that.
- This may be just me, but it seems to be a lot slower than the Blogger-driven system. Although, in fairness, the “upload” takes a shedload less time
I’m sure there will be other things as well, but for now, that’ll do.
Blade:Trinity
Posted: Fri 17 December, 2004 Filed under: Reviews(ish) 2 Comments »OK, first things first, it’s confession time. I like Blade. Sad, but true. I even think Blade 2 was OK(ish). So seeing Blade:Trinity was a bit of a foregone conclusion despite some less-than-positive reviews.
But what is it with Hollywood and trilogies? Matrix was superb, Matrix:Revolutions was *cough* less so and Matrix:Reloaded was fucking horrendous. It’s much the same with Blade. Dear Christ I hope they’re not planning on making a fourth one.
It’s hard to define where it all goes wrong. I suppose “the start” would be a good definition. And it doesn’t get any better. There’s just too much that’s wrong – and even worse, it all feels horrendously disjointed. It’s a revenant, a zombie lurching from place to place with no real connection to any of it.
Avoid, avoid at all costs. It pains me to say this, but Blade:Trinity is nothing but undiluted shit.
Title Tags
Posted: Fri 17 December, 2004 Filed under: Geeky Leave a comment »Hmmm, there’s one problem I need to work on more than most now. Titles.
Because of the way I’d worked with Blogger, all the titles were wrapped as <p class=”hx“>title</p> – now I need to migrate that into the Title section on wordpress. I *think* I know how to do it using a PHP script, but does anyone know of a way to do it in SQL?
Imported
Posted: Fri 17 December, 2004 Filed under: Geeky Leave a comment »Yes, I’ve managed to pull in all 2,600ish posts no worries, and it’s actually gone fairly smoothly. Of course, there are some problems, but they’re more in how I wrote the stuff in Blogger, rather than due to the import process.
I now need to do some work with the problems, but I think that this will officially be the first post under WordPress.
Moving Along Nicely
Posted: Thu 16 December, 2004 Filed under: Geeky 3 Comments »As well as everything else that’s happened today, I’ve been working on the template for the upgraded site, once WordPress is fully working.
Let me know what you think of the layout, and whether there are any problems with the colour switcher etc.
Oh, and yes, the colours ARE foul. And I need to work a bit on making sure that the content text continues to stand out – in a couple of combinations it turns nasty at the moment. And the navigation bits are meant to be blank ’til the mouse hovers over them.