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This is my first blog posting using WordPress.

Wedding break

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.

Flickr images without the API

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.

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Rolling feed on jpstacey.info

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.

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Blogthis!

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:

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Short story collection: A Pocketful of Lies, December 2006

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:

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All roads lead to home

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.

Home is where the heart-shaped souvenir is

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 the index of www.jpstacey.info is still not my actual blog, even in 2007.

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Total Eclipse of my broadband

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. I’d love to know what they’re currently up to.

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Upgrading this blog to Wordpress 2.5.1

After having been stuck on version 2.0.1 for over two years, I’ve just upgraded to the most recent version, 2.5.1. The only hiccup was needing to ask my web provider to give me a new MySQL database: since 2.5, Wordpress has required MySQL 4.0 or newer.

Otherwise, it all seems to be running very smoothly. Do let me know if you see anything crazy. I hope to upgrade more frequently in future, as it was a far better experience than I’d expected.