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Category Archives: Bloggery

Stephen Fry on Fame

I confess that I am predisposed to read or hear Stephen Fry’s thoughts on just about any subject, at least as much for the elegance with which he expresses them as for the exact nature of those thoughts. Now he … more…

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Saw Lady’s blog

Here’s a funny thing. There was a comment here a couple of days ago from “Saw Lady” on the Delicatessen soundtrack post. The Saw Lady aka Natalia Paruz has a blog which essentially recounts her daily life as a street … more…

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upgraded

Okay then: we’re now running on WordPress 2.3. It wasn’t quite the painless procedure that upgrading has been in the past, but as far as I can make out, everything is working, and the tag cloud is back — albeit … more…

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A certain kind of blogging : Theresa Duncan, Tuesday Weld and Ecclesiastes, 9:11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of … more…

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an odd landmark

It’s no big deal, of course, in the great scheme of things, nor for that matter in very many schemes at all — but my first and only comment (until now) on the deaths of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake … more…

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LiveJournal feed, previously unsuspected

Enthusiasm enjoyed a rash of visitors from LiveJournal last evening, coming over to see the Outblissed post below. I’ve scratched about, and I cannot find the link that’s bringing them here, which is kind of curious, but it’s nice to … more…

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permalinks

Call me reckless. I just changed the permalink format for posts on this here blog. Where previously the links would read, rather unedifyingly: http://www.nexistepas.com/enthuse/?p=[ID Number] they now read: http://www.nexistepas.com/enthuse/index.php/yyyy/mm/dd/[post-title]/ Apologies to whoever’s bookmarked posts in here. I believe the old … more…

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comradely greetings

to anyone arriving here via The Cruikshanks Center for Philanthropy & Civic Comity. The Center’s representatives noticed that some of the links at the tail of the “Persons of Interest” list (heeee! I’m a person of interest!) were all, like, … more…

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we may encounter some turbulence

Right: I’m about to make a gigantic upgrade leap from WP 2.0.6 to 2.2.1. I don’t know exactly how many upgrades I’ve missed in between, but it’s a lot. We may encounter some turbulence in the process. I am especially … more…

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To Wit: this is getting scary now

As you might have gathered, I’m still more than a bit slumped. Too slumped to have noticed for myself that my mate Niall Griffiths (in fine form recently when we walked and drank and what not) is featured in the … more…

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