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aside: the feed(s)

A couple of days ago I changed the main RSS feed for enthusiasm from summary to full text. I’m now seeing a plug-in which will offer a choice of feeds, which sounds like it might be a good thing to … more…

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Now We Are Six; the novelty choking hazard explained

Enthusiasm became a blog six years ago today. Prior to that, enthusiasm had been a static link page on each successive iteration of my personal site, going back to February 1996, when Ye Midden first went up. A copy of … more…

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nexistepas mail back up

It appears that the email to this domain has been down since the server switch last week, and it is now returned. In the fabulously unlikely event that you sent me something during the past seven days, I did not … 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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back up

It’s A Beautiful Day album cover, Globe Propaganda, 1969 Yeah, so, the enthusiasm database threw a fit and crashed the previous server, and here we are on a new one.

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downtime

Neither my hosting company nor I am* entirely clear what happened, but the enthusiasm database pulled a fit late last evening and crashed the server, whereupon the domain was unplugged for half a day. I’ve disabled a lot of the … 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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Keen

According to my logs, someone in Paris spent six hours and twenty-odd minutes reading enthusiasm last night, loading 105 page views, which I think is enough to see the whole thing, at ten posts per page. They left no comments.

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New Feature (possibly)

A couple of hours from now, there may possibly be an automatic post from my del.icio.us account, if I’ve set it up right. I’m not sure what that post will look like: in an ideal world, it will be the … more…

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Enthusiasm, the motion picture

Today we have been mostly enjoying Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa (1931) directed by Dziga Vertov, his first after the renowned Man With A Movie Camera, and his first film with sound. Given that any use of synchronised sound with film was … more…

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