The China Syndrome

Phew! Just finished writing an email to some woman telling her all about Chinese astrology. She’d contacted the Astrological Association because she’d had her Chinese horoscope done, notice that there were 12 animal signs in the Chines zodiac and wondered if we’d noticed that Jupiter had a 12-year cycle and that there might be some connection. And the AA had passed her onto me. (Why??? Oh yes, I’m the local font of knowledge, aren’t I?)
So I told her yes, some astrologers had already noticed that but we couldn’t be certain of the connection. And also that Chinese astrology was a bit more complex than that and gave her a 50-word rundown on it.
Hope that keeps her quiet!

In other news… I won’t be bothering to work on a design for valdobson.co.uk. Not yet, anyway. I’ve just remembered that I’ll be using the new version of WordPress, which comes with a choice of skins; it also comes with the ability to generate more than one page, which means that it can be used to set up a whole multipurpose website, not just one blog page. So I shall go for that, and experiment with the design once it’s up.
Once I’ve had a chance to play around with the new version and find out what it can do, I may very well convert the Oakleaf Circle site to it. From what I’ve read about the new version, it could be used as a complete CMS for adding content – which is exactly what I need for the OC site. All those pages and pages of HTML and CSS tags are so easy to get borked, when you’re adding little bits of content on a daily basis, like I do.
In fact, I’m hoping that I’ll eventually get offered the webmaster post for the whole AA site. I already have lots of ideas for streamlining it, so I need to have my techniques and software ready…