One thousand site visits exactly! Huzzah :)

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So, Tim Burton’s at it again. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E Grant, Christopher Lee, Joanna Lumley… and music by Danny Elfman. How wrong can you go?

Not very, I hope. This is the lineup for The Corpse Bride, Tim Burton’s latest project. It’s pretty low-profile right now, although the trailer is available, and it’s [...]

Remember that managers are essentially secretaries who can fire you.
Kuro5hin’s just posted a very honest guide to software development the political way. It notes the problems of sabotage, both deliberate and incidental, descoping, managing management, ass-covering and so on. It’s particularly relevant to software development, but its basic honesty – brutal honesty, at that – [...]

Got the SSI issue sorted; it was either a case of renaming everything as .shtml files, or adding one line to .htaccess. Guess which I picked? :)

So, take a look around. The full Disquisitions site is now up and running (although a few pages still need to be formatted and uploaded). Suggestions and commentary welcome.

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Hey folks, I’ve just noticed that a few of you who read this blog via LiveJournal have been leaving replies to the post on LiveJournal. Please don’t do that! :)

If you see a post by disquisitions and you reply to it on LiveJournal, that comment is basically lost in the void. disquisitions isn’t [...]

I just tried uploading the rest of the eleanorholmes.com site before hopping back on EQ2 for a couple of hours. Not a pretty result.

It’s looking unpleasantly as if my host doesn’t support SSI. I find this very hard to believe. Time to go wading in some settings, I think, with a very large axe.

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I have a long history with Apple products, starting with the old educational Apple IIs. I loved Macs, and spent hours playing with our earliest family Macs – old Mac Pluses and fatMacs, even.

And then along came the Mac Classic, and a steep decline in design quality, and Apple managed to turn me into a [...]

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Wouldn’t you agree?

Lorem Ipsum has been the standard dummy text of the printing industry since the 1500s; it’s from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

It’s very useful to fill pages, because [...]

I have a lot of media products. At last count, I’ve got probably 150-200 DVDs, 250-300 CDs, and god-knows-how-many books. Probably a thousand or so.

Because I’m a slavering information junkie, I’ve always wanted a catalogue of these items, but it’s been such a chore to generate. All that typing! Even when I was using DVD [...]

One of the Important People at GM uttered this gem of wisdom:We want Pontiac to be a performance-oriented division offering vehicles that can really be driven the way vehicles are meant to be driven.
So, until now, you’ve all been driving cars in ways they weren’t meant to be driven. We know, because GM says so.

Randy [...]

The above is a picture of Kryptos, a sculpture created for the Langley CIA HQ by a man named Jim Sanborn. It includes four heavily-encoded panels of text, and their contents are still a mystery. Three of the panels have been decoded, but the fourth hasn’t. And even when it has been, the contents form [...]

Adam pointed me to StatTraq, a very nice statistics plugin for WordPress. I’ve been using it and am very happy with it so far – and, of course, I’ve rapidly grown addicted to checking my stats.

“How many new hits this hour?” click, click “Ooo, who’s referring to me?” click, click “Yay, people love me!” click, [...]

I’ve always been really bad about keeping up with RSS feeds, largely because I’ve never found an RSS reader I could stick with. NetNewsWire and PulpFiction are both killer apps for OSX (NNW is the more popular choice; PulpFiction is my preference), but I don’t use my Mac as my primary internet machine, so I [...]

‘It turns out that the “Books for Babies” program is not structured like the “Toys for Guns” programs, so if you show up with babies, you can not exchange them for books. Completely blows my weekend plans.’—Jessa Crispin, at Bookslut

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WordPress offers one of the features that I like best about LiveJournal – the ability to post by email. It wouldn’t be nearly so useful if I didn’t now have access to my own mailserver, where I can set up any email addresses at the eleanorholmes.com domain that I choose.

So, let’s see if this works… [...]

Well, I’ve just discovered that the title of each entry is in fact the permalink, so that’s sorted… and I’ve worked out how to fix the timestamping issue… I think.

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Well, I’m busy tweaking my blog layout, trying to get it a bit closer to what I want. I’m happy enough with the design of it, but there are features lacking from the Kubrick template, IMO. For instance, I want a permalink for each post, which Kubrick doesn’t seem to do; I’d like to re-add [...]

Welcome. I’m Eleanor; this is my blog. (Well, duh.)

For the last couple of years I’ve been using LiveJournal for my blogging activities, and I like it very much. It’s grown since I’ve been using it, and it offers a lot of very useful features.

However, I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t cover everything I [...]