Graceful Exits

Finally. Jeez…. Anything broken?

Incidentally, I currently have very little network at home. Eclipse managed to transfer my broadband fine during the house move, and then cancel both my old and new packages simultaneously at the point the old house’s contract expired (December 4). Oddly, although pulling the plug took but a second, reconnecting can take five working days. [...]

Remember in the days before blogs, when we used to have homepages? Well, technically I suppose I still have one, separate from my blog. How retro is that, eh? My online presence is so fragmented (arguably because my offline presence is that of a genre-flitting dilettante who can’t just sit still for five minutes) that [...]

This morning a colleague had hardware problems, and duly googled for ‘g200 ubuntu dual head‘. Shortly afterwards I did the same, for ‘coldfusion introspection “line number”‘. We may be on track to produce a zettabyte of data by 2010, but from the looks of it some people are keeping most of it to themselves.

As a prelude to the relaunch of short-story website Quiet little Lies (a relaunch which is long overdue), I’m distributing in print a seasonal special for 2006 called:

An ideal Christmas gift, this handcrafted pamphlet has been lovingly assembled from a dozen complex, thoughtful tales that [...]

You might notice the little “blog this” link to the right there. That’s my first Wordpress plugin.
The code is at http://www.jpstacey.info/blog/files/code/blogthis.zip. This contains the blogthis PHP code and a directory of images. To try it out (for the moment: I’ll sort this all later into a proper installable plugin) do as follows:
Edit: full documentation now [...]

Following my recent success with putting a Flickr feed on my website’s front page is the conversion of this to an all-purpose feed reporter, where RSS/Atom flavour and feed specifics are dealt with by Javascript associative arrays of functions, keyed on both variables respectively.
If you’re lucky then the feed should wait a bit while it [...]

A number of posts are currently in stasis waiting for me to actually finish them, but I thought it was worth mentioning the selection of my most recent Flickr photos that now graces my homepage. While the rest of that page awaits serious styling and content work, I’ve dilly-dallied by creating this bit of eye-candy.
The [...]

Apologies for the prolonged silence, so soon after starting this blog, but I’ve spent much of April and May planning a wedding, and slices of June on honeymoon. Traditional grooms get all the luck: gay-ass equal-opportunity feminist grooms have to help out with seating plans, favours, and invitations.

This is my first blog posting using WordPress.