Ok, I’m back around after a hectic – and very hot – three months away from this blog.
Three months? How time flies.
All kinds of things have been happening, not the least of which was a move of the main Rogi Castle from Loulé to São Brás de Alportel.
Moving in temperatures of up to 40ºC is not an experience I feel I ever want to repeat.
So, I’m back around.
More soon!
I’m getting to have a large collection of photo odds and ends laying around that don’t seem to fit anywhere, so I have rebooted my Flickr account.
I have also added a new page here to the site that displays the latest ten of my Flickr uploads.
Go Flickr.
Anyone out there want an invite to Google Wave?
Leave a comment on this post. The first six people get an invite.
After the first six invites I’ll close the comments, as the last time I did this was with GMail invites years ago and I accidentally ended up with a comments list that stretched from here to eternity and back again.
I ordered a couple of books from Amazon yesterday, both of which sound quite interesting.
The first is Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, and the second is Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals.
The first book I just happened to notice whilst wandering around Amazon. The reviews looked good and the subject is always interesting, so I bought it. The second book was recommended to me by tinydoctor on identica.
Hopefully the books will arrive in a week or so.
Incidentally, tinydoctor, aka Dr. Yoshev Omed, has a good blog; ‘Dr Omed’s Tent Show Revival‘. Worth a read.
Today marks the eighth anniversary of this weblog, and some might say that the first ever post here set the tone as to how interesting most of the following thousands of posts would be. :)
I could write a book on the different adventures this place has had, from the first days of Blogger.com (“What is a Weblog?”) to GreyMatter to MovableType to pMachine to ExpressionEngine to WordPress, and there were probably yet more scripts in between.
There have been at least three different domain names, and I really cannot remember all of the different servers used, the ISP’s contracted, the different countries and locations that I have typed the posts in – or sometimes even the condition that I was in as I posted them. This blog has been with me through some interesting times, and to coin a phrase David Bowie once used when talking of his wilder days; “You don’t know half the story”.
Some of you reading this have been around right back from the very beginning, and thanks a bunch for that. Thanks also to all of the writers of all the thousands and thousands of comments over the years. Most of those comments have not been transferred between servers and scripts, but I still have them all archived.
Yet more thanks goes out to all of you who have taken the time to write the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of personal emails to me over the years. Whether sharing expertise, pointing out things I might be interested in, recipes, technical help, music, movie and book recommendations, or simply just shooting the breeze, every email was good to get and good to read.
It has been a real blast meeting so many interesting people via this place.
A hat tip fom me to all of you.