Well I seem to have successfully migrated my data over from blogger thanks to this guy and this guy.
They’re doing a fine service!!
Update: Because I’ve always used Haloscan Comments with blogger (hell, blogger didn’t have comments when I started using it!) the comments haven’t come across so I’ll leave my blogspot where it is so that you can reference back to it if needed.
I couldn’t help but be humoured by this:
Photocopier supplier Canon is warning customers to take better care of their office equipment during the Christmas period, claiming that the festive season traditionally leads to a 25 percent hike in service calls due to incidents such as the classic backside copying prank.
Such a stunt, a mainstay of the office party, often results in cracked glass on the copier, with 32 percent of Canon technicians claiming to have been called out to fix glass plates during the Christmas period after attempts to copy body parts went wrong.
Tim Andrews, a Canon employee from London, said: “We always fit lots of new glass to copiers after New Year due to ‘rear-end copying.’”
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However, one of the most alarming tales comes to us from service engineer Steven Mannion of northern England. “I had to repair a machine with a photocopy of a man’s groin jammed in it,” Mannion said.
We can only hope he meant it was the photocopy that was jammed in the machine.
Prince Vladimir Odoevsky, 1803-1869, was a gifted man. Apart from writing philosophical books, stories for children and composing pieces of music, he also wrote science fiction, trying to imagine what his country would look like in 2,500 years, in 4338.
The fact that among other utopian inventions Odoevsky described something very close to the Internet and blogging was brought to public attention by — surprise, surprise — a blogger. Ivan Dezhurny, a Russian music producer, is generally fond of futuristic literature. Reading Odoevsky’s novel “Year 4338”, written in 1837, Dezhurny republished selected bits of the book on his personal blog to the delight of his readers.
Odoevsky suggested in future there would be a kind of connection between houses that would allow people to communicate quickly and easily, the way they do now via the Internet.
But what’s really disturbing here is that this “Ivan Dezhurny” character is completely ungoogleable outside of the MosNews article and (as of the time stamp of this post) one referencing site with identical text. Whoever heard of an ungoogleable blogger? Sure, the Wired article hints at the possibility of blogging anonymously or under an assumed name, but then, er, wouldn’t MosNews be calling him his blog name or “an anonymous blogger”?
Of course this might have something to do with the blog being in Russian but as my Russian is lacking I guess I’ll never know.
In my experimentations with Dad’s web site over the weekend I properly used Gimp for the first time. Gimp is an image editing program that is as good as any of the Adobe suit stuff – and it’s free and open source.
Gimp’s only downfall is that it’s a bit of a bitch to install, so here’s the quick run down for widows users (I think initially I was trying to install the Linux version which naturally didn’t work).
So a) Install the GTK +2 Runtime environment.
Then, b) install the Gimp for Windows.
Both can be found here.
And there you have it – another open source innovation brought to you by me.
Many of you probably don’t realise that my old man runs his own vineyard and winery.
This year he goes full commercial and I’m oh-so-proud of the old diamond.
So for Christmas I got him this: dinnygoonan.com.au.
It’s not finished yet and I’ve lots of good ideas for it – but Merry Christmas Dad!
Hi all. I’ve finally moved to Goonanism.com/blog.
I’d like to thank all those that pop in from time to time and particularly those that link to me.
If would be greatly appreciate if you could update your blogrolls with my new address, or if you’re so inclined, add me to your blog roll.
See you over at Goonanism.com/blog.
Well I’ve finally done it, I’ve moved to my own hosting and here is it – welcome aboard!!
Naturally there are plenty of thing I need to sort out on an administrative level.
I’ve got to try and get all the posts from my Blogger account, I need to sort out themes and preferences and so on.
I guess it’s important to note that I intend to use this web space to learn a lot more about web stuff so I’m going to try and learn to create these templates my self and experement in a few other bits of functionality.
So not much to report today. Critical Mass was fantastic, I’d say at least 2000 people there. I’m also quite sure I saw M!key there but he was speeding past me on one wheel. How am I suppose to keep up? I’m only one man.
