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WEB AFRICA TO THE RESCUE (AGAIN)

// May 12th, 2009 // No Comments » // geek stuff

So I’ve had my week’s worth of being mostly unconscious, and am almost ready to rejoin the blogoshphere (if only to get that damn picture off my homepage – there’s only so much one can take of David Hasslehoff’s crotch).

As you will see, the blog has yet another template and a shiny new host in Web Africa – the switchover was pretty disastrous (and more than this I shall not mention for fear of inventing new swearwords – suffice to say, nothing to do with them and mostly to do with my not backing up regularly enough plus a hearty dose of  miscommunication) and my whole database was inadvertently jettisoned into cyberspace. Fortunately for me, these guys were really on the ball and helped me restore it within 24 hrs, not to mention being super-friendly and very patient with the n00b I am.

A couple of hiccups later, and all is as it should be. The theme, and I know there’s still a lot of orange (I like orange, OK – my genes were spliced in the 70′s), is in it’s infancy, and I intend to do much experimentation and adding of exciting new plugins and widgets. The quotes widget, which I totally love, and which didn’t seem to work with my last template is now mostly working and will be updated frequently. There are many things about the blog and theme which need work, I do know this and I am working on it (when I have time), but any feedback or comments would be much appreciated.

That’s it for now…a really big THANKS to Web Africa for all their help in restoring my database – you get the superhero-of-the-week award. Thanks also to Jayx for hosting up till now.

WHY NOT?

// February 20th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // dirt on the author

So finally I have plucked up the courage to start blogging. Everyone is doing it, or so I’ve heard..even the mysoginistic megalomaniacs I work near have started doing it, although I suspect their intentions are somewhat different from mine. From what i can gather their blogs (set up by yours truly) are purely for the purposes of mental masturbation.

Or mutual mental masturbation.

It involves masturbation of some kind…Hardly surprising for a bunch of wankers (no, I love them really, i just couldn’t resist the literary urge).

My motives are altogether more pure. I was watching Bridget’s Jones’s Diary the other day (favorite movie of all time, I AM actually Bridget Jones…really…without the happy ending of course…yet), and the opening line resonated with my beer swilling soul.

“Have resolved to start a diary and not spend the holidays alone, drinking vodka and listening to SAD FM, easy listening for the over 30′s, will obviously lose 20 pounds, quit smoking and drinking, and not form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, megalomaniacs, attention seekers or perverts”

Think that about sums it up

Thanks to Jayxter for setting up this rant forum

expect more ranting soon