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Living and Learning….
Who says the internet isn’t educational? Thanks to a thread on Livejournal, I have just learned what the public-school game of soggy biscuit involves.
No, I’m not going to tell you – google it for yourselves.
And no, you can’t borrow my mind bleach afterwards, I’ve used it all up.
The Calm After The Storm…
This week wasn’t much fun for me. I was getting stress from all directions, so naturally, I was Not Well. Yesterday, I was supposed to be finishing off the last edition of the hardcopy Transit. But I decided that enough was enough and that I needed to relax.
So I went round to [...]
Cheesed Off Again…
Having got the new online Transit almost ready to upload, I have been told that I’ve got it wrong. Which I didn’t. Originally, I was told that Transit would cease hardcopy publication, but would continue online, with its own dedicated site. So I worked at developing a super-whizzy, Web2.0 online magazine with [...]
Good News, Bad News….
So I went to see Doc G yesterday. I first told him about my tinnitus and growing deafness. My whole life, I’ve always had very short bursts of noises in my ears – howls, rustling, whines, whistles, even far-away whispering, but they never lasted for more than a minute or so; I assumed [...]
We Haz Snow!
After watching the news all week and rolling our eyes at the soft southerners, gleefully chortling over the fact that practically no snow has fallen here
Proof…..
….that I really, really cannot cook. This was supposed to be a buckwheat pancake. All I had to do was measure out the buckwheat flour, mix in some water, cook it briefly in a pan. Simple? Yes! But could I do it? Um, no…
Wibbling….
…about techie web development matters in this post, so pass over if you’re not interested.
Transferring a complete Wordpress blog from one server to another is supposed to be pretty simple – Wordpress has an Import/Export function that makes it almost a one-click operation.
Having got the new Wordpress-based Transit site almost complete on my local server, [...]
I Get Mail….
…but it’s not often like this (the original, sent to my Transit editorial address, is in multi-coloured, bolded, italicised and underlined 16pt Ariel, decorated with a nice picture of autumn leaves):
——-Original Message——-
From: CANADA EDMONTON
Date: 2/3/2009 1:55:39 PM
To: DEVELOPMENT@MUSEUM.TV
Subject: Fw: E-MAIL 4 TO PILOT GUIDES ////// LONELY PLANET TV TRAVEL SHOW OF GREAT [...]
Mind Your Cs and Ks….