Archive for February, 2003

Looking good …

Friday, February 28th, 2003

Well everything seems to be looking a bit better at this stage. I've eventually cleaned up most of the messes, and have ported all my blogger entries (by hand) into movable type. A reasonable task given the small amount of blogging I've done to date, but I would think that ...

new blog format

Thursday, February 27th, 2003

I've eventually put movable type onto my site, and am slowly experimenting with it. It took a while to get the files up - mainly due to a problematic ftp client - but seems to be working fairly smoothly now. Not quite sure how I'll integrate my old blogger.com entries, ...

Thinking of changing

Wednesday, February 26th, 2003

You know, Blogger's getting better - or maybe I've just been having a run of good luck. But my last post took me a while to get up due to their server misplacing my template file - thankfully temporarily. This happened before - unfortunately on that occasion it wasn't temporary, ...

International Diplomacy Madness

Tuesday, February 25th, 2003

You know, the arguments made by the Bush administration are just getting annoying. I know they've been flagging this one for a while, but the claim that the security council must do what the US wants in order to retain credibility is just gobsmacking in its inanity.I've seen the claim ...

Researching weblogs

Wednesday, February 19th, 2003

Jumping, to an extent, onto the same bandwagon as a lot of others, I'm planning on doing some formal research on weblogs over the next number of weeks and months. My primary project will examine the potential provided by weblogs, and similar tools, to provide a space of resistance to ...

Google buys Pyra

Sunday, February 16th, 2003

Unsurprisingly, given the fact that blogging is such a major topic of discussion on blogs (and I am aware of my own guilt on this), the purchase by Google of Pyra/Blogger is what one commentator on MeFi called "the ultimate newsmeme".There are mixed views on how good a fit this ...