Unintentionally Blank

It was bad enough that I have found it difficult to update this blog recently, but when I discovered that I was only giving out a partial feed I felt even worse that I couldn’t fix it. There is plenty of debate over whether feeds are better as full or partial, but I can’t stand only reading part of an article in my feed reader then having to visit the site. I subscribe to a feed so that I don’t have to visit a site, save for commenting. Still, this is a long running issue and my opinion lies on the side that full feeds are king.

Given that my own site was violating my own beliefs, I had to fix it. Since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 and found out that this is now intended behaviour when using the <!–more–> quicktag, though is also subject to a debate. Thankfully Ronald Heft came to the rescue and has released Full Text Feed, a plugin that exports the full article, whether you use the quicktag or not. This is now in action, so if you check my feed, you should now find the whole article available (can I take this opportunity to suggest subscribing too? I’ll be writing loads of great stuff soon!)

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I’ve done it! I’m up far too late, I’ve taken long enough, but I’ve done it.

Finally this new design I have been going on about for seemingly months and months has arrived along with Wordpress 2.1 and (unless you are reading this through your favourite feed reader, in which case I suggest you visit now) you are looking at it.

I’ll explain what I have done in another post, but for now I just want to say I’m proud of it. If you do find any bugs, strange rendering, bits sticking out or anything you think is wrong with it, please let me know, unless the contact form is broken, in which case I’ll never know.

Most importantly though, what do you think? Be honest, leave me a comment or a mail to tell me what your impressions are, first or otherwise.

In a twist of fate, or some other force, this week I have learnt to not blog about things I’m looking forward to. Where before it seemed perfectly reasonable to show a bit of emotion about my upcoming payday coinciding with getting connected to the Internet at home, I couldn’t be more wrong!

I’m sure stealing some computer time to write about how I won’t have to steal any more computer time soon is pushing it, but the irony rests in fact that I am now borrowing the same Internet connection to tell you that I am yet to be connected. I can’t complain (sort of) because I am getting an incredibly cheap connection from TalkTalk. It’s just that when they wrote to me to say that my go live date was 31st January, you can forgive me for believing that I would be online then. What they meant, in fact, was that they would send the modem and other stuff for getting connected yesterday. I am still going to leave it until I am connected before I pass judgement on TalkTalk, but the thought of how little it is costing me keeps me going for the moment.

Posting Whilst At Work?

So you probably think I am skimping on my job and tending to Unintentionally Blank at the moment, but you would be wrong. You see, not only am I not online at home yet, I also fell ill yesterday. Leaving work early and catching the tube home whilst holding back my stomach back was not a pleasant end to the day and added to my misfortune, confining my premature excitement to the bin.

Today was spent sitting at home, drinking tea, eating soup and watching Family Guy. Not a great day. I think I’ll go and put the kettle on, sit back in front of the television and wait for the modem to drop through my door. And just in case my overly excitable post caused yesterday to be terrible, I’m definitely not looking forward to playing a gig this Saturday!

Anyway, it wasn’t all bad.

I did get paid!