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 that everybody […]
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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:
….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….
…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 […]
…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 […]
OK, I’ve now changed the design for this blog. I’d spent hours and hours over the weekend trying to put together a new design from scratch without much success, then thought “Why try to reinvent the wheel?” This is a WordPress blog; there are hundreds of free WordPress themes out there, most of them readily […]
…..are pagan websites so generally awful? I’ve spent the last hour going through the listings on the Oakleaf Circle site, checking for dead links. There were some beautifully-designed sites there, but they were in the minority. Honestly I have never seen so many animated gifs, cheesy clipart, misused fonts and violent colour schemes (purple on […]
Doing the shopping these days, with my dodgy knee, is not an experience I much enjoy. Technically, me & B always do the shopping together; what usually happens is that B slowly trundles the trolley round while I whizz around ferreting out the goodies. But at the moment, our roles are reversed; mindful that I […]
Take a look at this picture. It’s from an LJ comm for Russian-speaking Israeli soldiers engaged in the current Gaza offensive (found via a comment on Lenins Tomb). The blog’s all in Russian, so I’ve looked at the pictures. This one, for me, really epitomises the obscenity of the war. A grinning Israeli soldeier sits […]
…another tachycardia attack. This one started at approximately 3am this morning and didn’t stop until 2pm today. Something of a record for me. So I’ve not done a lot of anything today, aside from lying in bed and staring up at the ceiling (getting up and walking around during an attack makes me dizzy and […]