Ok, en smal del av bokhøsten, kanskje. Vi fikk et reklameskriv fra Novus Forlag i dag. Jeg reagerte en smule på bok nummer 1 – den heter nemlig “Literacy i norsk seinmellomalder”. “Literacy”? Har vi virkelig ikke noe norsk ord for dette begrepet? Kan i så fall noen være så snille å finne på ett? Norsk språkråd, hvor er dere når vi virkelig trenger dere?
Spesiellt morsomt blir det når siste boka på lista heter “Teamwork? Man kan lika gärna samarbeta” – den handler om importord på svensk…
A nice seasonal red. Originally, I was thinking of using this red permanently, but I don’t know. I’ll leave it till after Christmas, though (mind you, I might move the blocks of colour about a bit…)
(copied from the old blog to enable revising…)
another year has gone, at least very nearly, and still no peace on earth. And what’s with all these natural cathastrophies? I know I never got around to sending you a list last year, so the peace-issue might have slipped your mind, I guess. Anyway, I think I’ve been reasonably good this year, too – I certainly try my best. This year’s list is as follows.
1. Peace on earth.
2. A portable C-Pen.
3. A measure of will-power.
4. Units for the kitchen.
5. A bag of Non Stop (you can never have enough).
6. Some time for J.K. Rowling to sit down and finish writing The Last Book.
7. Health and longevity for my nearest and dearest and for the following authors/artists (and any others I may have forgotten): Robin Hobb, J.K. Rowling, Stephen Fry, Jo Nesb
What do you mean it’s not New Year’s yet?
I now have a working moveable type installation. Don’t, by the way, assume this mess was mt’s fault, it wasn’t, my tables were all in a hoo – whatever a hoo is – after the database move, I tried to fix it, but obviously didn’t, and in the process I think I probably made it worse. In any case, I decided I wanted a working blog soon and a working archive of past entries later, rather than the other way round. In the meantime, all the little voices and currently reading entries are available, though you can’t comment on them and you can’t search them, although I suspect it will look like you can, except you won’t get any results…
Well, you know, computers… What I really want for Christmas is a telepathic computer. One that realises that if I type _ and that makes no sense, whereas typing – would have made sense, – was probably what I was aiming for anyway.
That sort of thing.
Now to fix the menu/front page, so that y’all – whoever you are – can find this new blog…
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When one doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry, the former is always the best choice.
I LOVE these… What every bibliophile needs. It’s given me an idea, too.
Ny server og diverse. Blandt annet ny versjon av Movable type. Ikke helt sikker på hvilken faktor som har skylden for de orginale aene og aaene osv. Derav mangelen på fiksing. Skal se hva jeg får gjort etterhvert…
I’ve finally succumbed. I’ve upgraded to MT 3.2. Actually, it turned out that I needn’t have waited so long seeing as they’ve changed the licencing policy so I didn’t need to purchase one after all (as long as I deleted all the other potential weblog authors in my database, but as none of the others ever need to post anything that wasn’t a big loss).
Anyway, one of the reasons I wanted to upgrade – the major reason in fact – was that the spam was getting unmanageable. So now commenters need to be authenticated in order to post. However, I can’t seem to figure out how to authenticate any of you (I click the option but no one shows up in the trusted commenters list) so for the time being I have to accept any comments before they’re published.
SO IF YOU COMMENT AND IT DOESN’T SHOW UP, DON’T TRY TO WRITE IT AGAIN, JUST WAIT A FEW HOURS, OK?
Looking for software suitable for cataloguing the department library I found this article, linking to Koha. Brilliant.
What’s with this “new” spam which just links to legitimate sites? I have just received four messages, linking to yahoo.com, microsoft.com, livejournal.com and bluesoft.co.uk.
Here’s an example:
Name: timothy ballard
Email Address: gabriel@internet.com
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/r/sqComments:
it was fun visiting here. wishing you a great day!
WTF? Not that I don’t appreciate the odd comment saying my site is fun, but with four different ones posted within seconds, it’s obviously spam. Is the goal to make me blacklist yahoo.com? Well, I ain’t falling for it. And I really, really, really don’t see the point. Give up already! Yes, you managed to annoy me, happy now?