moving to a new home
That's it. I've had enough of this beta blocker Blogger business. This blog has now moved to The Valley of Lost Things. Please come on over and join in.
if you're sure you put it down somewhere, this is probably where it is now
That's it. I've had enough of this beta blocker Blogger business. This blog has now moved to The Valley of Lost Things. Please come on over and join in.
Switching to the new beta version of Blogger is proving to be a rash decision. It's probably fine for new blogs starting out, but the legacy of old posts is creating all sorts of difficulties.
(I still haven't worked out how to get those drop caps to appear.)
I've posted occasionally over the last nine months or so about Web 2.0. Originally it was in connection with a research project I was undertaking at College, with the final posts on my conclusions in June, but my interest in the subject continues.
Continuing yesterday's musings about the beta version of Blogger, I find that there are definite improvements to the service. Publishing (at least so far) is much quicker, since the whole blog is no longer updated, just the most recent post. The interface is clearer and no longer has to be refreshed to avoid strange arrangements of post headings.
Following soon after the launch of Microsoft's desktop blogging tool Live Writer (PC only), a lot of web commentators such as Mark Evans have pounced on the news that Google has released a beta version of Blogger, the first major update since acquisition in 2003. Just about everyone, such as Wired, is impressed with the new features, though favourable comments are usually accompanied by the suggestion that it's about time too. On the downside, Steve Rubel found problems with the privacy settings, and the software isn't fully compatible with the Safari browser yet.
he Visual Dictionary is a collection of images of words photographed in different locations. Anyone can submit, and already there are over 3,000 images of over 2,000 words.
artoon double-takes have always amused me, almost as much as the dynamic poses often struck in cartoons immediately prior to dashing off screen.
hile looking for tiles for our bathroom recently, I overheard several squabbles and disagreements. One young couple, complete with small child in pushchair, were attempting to calculate the cost of some tiles in B&Q.
She: How big is a square metre?Elsewhere that same day, in a specialist tile showroom, an employee was speaking on the phone...
He: It's about this big (points to a tile about 20cm by 30cm).
She: Are you sure?
He: I think so.
She: Well, this is no good. You should have measured the bathroom before we came out.
He: Look, firstly, I didn't know we were coming out. Secondly.... (the couple grump off down the aisle, muttering acrimoniously...
He: ...But I haven't done anything!... Well, I didn't know that... Look, I'll sort it out... I told you, I haven't done anything!...He's my brother, I'll talk to him...And this all before trying to reach agreement on which tiles to buy.
ome Dutch students have come up with the neat idea of Globe 4D, where animated films are projected onto a sphere, and visitors control the playback either by rotating the sphere to get a different viewpoint or by turning a disc around the middle to get a different point in time.
ut at a garden centre late in the afternoon at the weekend, Lisa spotted a huge bird of prey flying round a tree in the near distance. We only got a brief glimpse, but could see that it was mid-brown and had upturned feathers at its wingtips. For quite a while after it disappeared from view, we could hear its distinctive keening cry, and other birds continued to flutter about in a dither.
y apologies for writing little over the last week or two. I've been distracted by evaluating two rival software packages for creating an online shop for April Young. As part of this, I've had to upgrade my webhosting package to allow the use of PHP and mySQL databases. (That means I could switch this blog to Wordpress - more on this another time.)
umblebees are quite common in our garden just now, investigating the flowers on the buddleia and lavender, but yesterday's honey bee was a first. Bees are generally thought to fly up to three miles from their hive to find food and water, so it could have come from anywhere in a wide area.