That sidebar on the right just there
My housemate brought to my attention just the other night, the fact that the sidebar on the right-hand side of this page never changes. This is sadly true. That photo of that tree from Devon has been up there longer than I care to admit, and the other links could do with a bit of a change, too.
The reason for my sluggishness is valid, however. The photo never changes because I am currently writing a plugin for WordPress that will handle all my photos. Once that’s complete, You’ll see more photos more frequently. Just like everyone on the Internet, I have an inflated sense of my skills as a photographer (and a writer, and a web designer, and a programmer) so I do take the odd photo I’m quite proud of.
As for the text-based content, well the explanation there is quite simple, really. I have been labouring under the illusion that in order to be a writer, you must be good at writing. Let’s look at the facts: people like my crazy stories because there is no logical plot, no sensible character development and no pithy message underneath it all. So from now on, as soon as I get a silly idea for a story I’m going to knock something off in an hour or so and just post it, spelling mistakes and all.
Which brings me to:
Version 2 of Firefox, the browser everyone would blatantly make love to if it were a person, has been released. It looks prettier, and there is a spell checker built into it that checks spellings in forms you fill out. (I note that Linux has had this for longer, but it’s taken a while for the rest of the world to catch up. And while I’m on the topic of Linux, I tried upgrading my system to the latest version of Kubuntu a few nights ago, and the whole thing crashed around my ears so I had to re-install everything all over again. This is about the tenth time I’ve installed an OS on my computer, I’m really not exaggerating! Maybe this is why the rest of the world takes so much longer to catch up!*)
* I wouldn’t change this for the world, however. I expect my computer to need some serious attention from time to time; it wouldn’t be Linux if everything didn’t catastrophically break on a regular basis.
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“Just like everyone on the internet”???
You mean my opinion of my photographic skills is over-inflated? Suddenly everything makes sense.
And one day (if you are still replying to my emails actually) you will have to tell me why you prefer kubuntu over ubuntu.
I still think it should be changed. Also i’ve totally abandoned Linux, the bloody bastard is too unreliable.
change kills.