As I just found out, it seems that Worpdress and its Automated Upgrade feature may still have some kinks in it to work out.
As a part of the upgrade process, Wordpress drops a .maintenance in order to signify that the Blog is undergoing some changes, and presumably to stop access to the database and files [...]

Nadia starting out the set of 7 songs with a new track written by Sasha
Went to see the band Sash is involved with, Midnight Drive, last Saturday at the Curtain Hotel. It was their second gig, so she was quite excited to have landed a spot supporting the headlining act – Skarlet Blue. The second [...]

There sometimes comes a time in a blog’s online life when it needs to find a new home.
Photo: josjos – CC
Whether it be changing to or from a personal blog to a professional blog, outgrowing a domain’s original purpose, or simply a face-lift – there are a number of common obstacles that you can [...]

06
Jan
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So. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and all that kinda jazz.
Obligatory summation of the year that has now passed. Not that I blog particularly often these days – though with enough inspiration I may choose to start jotting down a few random tidbits here and there. It’s been a little bit of a sleepy year, [...]

22
May
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Okay, so I’ve finally made the decision to not host my own stuff.
For the most part during the years, I’ve had a Freebsd catchall machine that served as most of what i needed. WWW/SMTP (antispam/antivirus) and various other things I’ve hosted such as subversion back when i was at Uni. Now that I’m really [...]

21
Apr
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Okay, so now I have the majority of what is around for Mew. A little emo-ish at times, but still I’ve played through 3 albums this night and I’ve enjoyed what I’ve heard. And I like them. Which is a very snap decision but after hearing a sample at Mark’s housewarming on the weekend I [...]

05
Mar

This post is almost directly inspired by Neil’s post about those lovely devices that enable us to bring our photographic subjects much closer to us, and give us a much greater level of detail that we would normally think possible.
Along with my lovely new camera and lenses, I’ve acquired a set of auto extension [...]

So, by now most people will know ( quite likely due to my constant and unrelenting badgering for money and attempts to raise money through every possible source I can bring to bear ) that I’ve made the big decision of cutting off my hair. I made the decision roughly 3 or 4 months ago [...]

10
Dec
stored in: General, Work and tagged: ,

Every morning, there’s a certain ritual that I go through to break the new day in. I sit down – check my email for any major catastrophe thats happened overnight, delete spam, check my voicemail. I’m sure that this is all very familiar to just about everyone. Recently however, I’ve begun to make

these for [...]

05
Oct

Okay, so most of you know by now that there was a Lunar Eclipse. Mainly due to laziness, I haven’t bothered to update till now, and even then it’ll be a short and sweet one.
Okay, so I just found the images i took with Neil, which I had forgotten about. I’m bad I know. [...]