Bowblog Archives
October 01, 2007
Is this thing on?
I'm testing a bit of CSS diddling with some random words that should show that I've figured out how to style a blockquote properly:
“But why is it so small?”
August 30, 2007
OK. I give up
No one liked the idea of my tumblelog over at Bowblr.com (geddit?). Everyone said it was a stupid idea to abandon Bowblog after five-and-a-half-years, not least because I'd have been chucking away a huge amount of 'Google equity' in so doing (duh). So I'm back. I'll keep blogging here and maybe I'll just get myself a little redesign (wanna help? Write to me). I guess MT 4.0 might offer some relief too. Thanks for all the free advice (most along the lines of "you idiot. What are you doing?").
August 15, 2007
Another post over at bowblr
I'm now blogging over at tumblr. I've just put up a post about last night's mind-blowing Stravinsky/Bernstein/Gershwin Prom. Go on then. Click!
August 09, 2007
Meet Bowblr
I love Tumblr. It's simple, it's... Well, actually, that's it. It's simple. Also, I take the developers' word for it when they say they're going to add a way to leave comments sooner or later. So, allow me to introduce Bowblr, Bowblog's little brother. I guess I shouldn't get too carried away. I may decide Tumblr's too simple by far and just come right back to Movable Type. Let's give it a try...
November 28, 2006
21st Century Communications
So it turns out there's been something wrong with my email. For a couple of weeks about half of my inbound mail has been routed to a trench in the middle of the North Atlantic. Fish have been reading it. Something to do with my dns – and all my own fault apparently. Anyway, I think it's OK now so you should write to me again if you were expecting a reply (like you were writing to me in the first place).
By the way, I'll take this opportunity to tell you that I just heard a trailer for a programme about climate change on Radio 4. The presenter signed off like so: "we're at the very precipice of a runaway train". Cool.
November 16, 2006
A small masterpiece from La La Land
My favourite comment for ages. Not spam, just completely mad...
July 25, 2006
Comments are broken
I'm going to have to get a man in. I can see the comments you're leaving but no one else can. This has got to do with upgrading to Movable Type 3.2 a few weeks ago. Very frustrating.
November 03, 2005
I'm a blogdaddy!
Clever Alex Barnett's blogdaddy, in fact. How cool is that?
October 05, 2005
Links are back
So I spent about two months fiddling with my blogroll and tried a few ways of keeping it up-to-date and now, at last, it's back. So, if you're one of the people who's been writing to me complaining, then you can shut up now. Of course, the thing I'd forgotten was that most of my own blog browsing is driven by the links in my blogroll, which explains why I've not been browsing lately.
June 16, 2005
Interpretation please
According to my web site stats over 11,000 people are visiting bowblog.com every month. That sounds quite good doesn't it? In fact, if I look back at how much I'd have paid in the past (at another.com, for instance) for 11,000 uniques per month it begins to look quite sickening. I'm clueless, though, as to how many of those are real human beings and how many robots or RSS aggregators (or dead people or extra-terrestrials). The numbers are interesting: for instance, apparently, 13,767 out of my 32,373 monthly pages are 'not viewed' (what's going on there then?) and 80% of my search engine referrals come from Google Images (I'm number one result for 'badges'). I'm sure at least half a dozen of those 11,000 'uniques' are web stats experts so, do me a favour, tell me how many real people are actually seeing this site every month!
April 07, 2005
Phil Gyford fixed my blog
Not many people can say that. The master has very kindly been picking over the entrails of my blog and it should now be working nicely on all platforms and browsers. I trust him because he's got the distinctive coat-of-arms of the Guild of Master Blog Fiddlers painted on the side of his van (and because he looks like he was such a nice boy).
I'm back (like you've been missing me...)
I've been to Ireland with the family for a few days. We stayed on my cousin's farm (complete with ducks and calves and so on) and we are now sorely in need of a rest from listening to my Dad going on about... well, the kind of things grumpy old Stalinists go on about. I took some photographs, of course (actually I took about 400 photographs – you should consider yourself lucky).
Now that I'm back, and the election campaign is under way (exciting, isn't it?), and the bloggers are looking pretty important all of a sudden, I'm interested to read the fiend's thoughts on the scary obligations of bloggers (yes, you) as journalists and publishers.
February 11, 2005
I'll consider myself helped then
First of all, this wasn't supposed to happen. I didn't expect dozens of you to chip in with solutions to my HTML/CSS problems (well, 19 in all, including the emails). So now I either have to bankrupt myself shipping Champagne to every corner of the English speaking world... or draw lots. I think I'll draw lots. If you were one of the lovely people who helped me to sort out my three-column layout, watch the skies. I'll be in touch with one of you for an address (or perhaps I should just send it to Alex who seems to have prompted most of the responses. Thanks Alex!).
February 08, 2005
Help!
Right. This is your last chance to save bowblog's three-column layout. Most of you (the Explorer users, basically) don't even know this is a three-column web site because, for you, the third column displays somewhere down there (underneath the left-hand column). Some of Britain's finest minds have examined my CSS and HTML and no one seems able to fix it so that the right-hand column displays where it ought to over there on the right (although the esteemed Phil Gyford did improve things markedly). So (trying not to sound desperate), if you reckon you've got what it takes, why don't you sort it out for me and I'll send you a bottle of Champagne (own brand, natch). I guess you can just view source if you need the HTML and here's my stylesheet.