bignoseduglyguy

It is amazing what one can achieve when one has an hour or so to spare for, with a day off work, I have finally managed to properly migrate my blog back to Blogger. Having tried three or four of the off the shelf offerings, I am now moderately happy with the tweakings I have applied to the Minima template and the general look of the site. The look is very light and airy when compared to the some say funereal old site.

Subtle changes include:

• Old site content is still available via the Oct 2002 – May 2004 archive link.
• The Star Chamber features the blogs of good friends and/or favoured blogfolk – added due to recent flakiness over at blogrolling.com.
• RSS feed is now brought to you care of Atom.

The other key change is that I have decided to limit commenting to those who choose to register to do so. This decision was not taken lightly because I truly value all comments and have made new friends and contacts through them. However, eradicating comment spam was taking up too much time, even with MT Blacklist. I hope that folks will feel that registering is worth the effort and that they continue to do so.

Maybe now I can get back to posting more regularly rather than trying to decide which bloody blog tool to use.

Sprog #4 (pointing to my chest): Your milkies don’t work – Mummy’s do!
Me (surrounded by SWMBO and female offspring): Um…yes.
Sprog #4 (pointing to her chest and those of her sisters): My milkies will work when I’m older…and hers…and hers…and hers!

After much humming and hahhing (or hemming and hawing for American readers), I have moved back to Blogger. Non-blog content will migrate to the new format slowly, as and when time and RSI permits, but for now stuff is all over the place so clicking through is even more of an adventure for my dear longsuffering readers.

Sprog #4: I want a polar bear.
Me: What?
Sprog #4: I want a polar bear.
Me: What? I don’t understand.
Sprog #4: I want polar bear in your pocket.
Me: I haven’t got a polar bear in my pocket.
Sprog #4: (pointing to pocket) Look in there.
Me: OK (looks in pocket and retrieve packet of mints with holes in) Ah, are these the Polo bears?
Sprog #4: Yes.

Grahame’s Things to do Whilst Running is too near to the truth for some of us.

To his list I would add:

• adjusting one’s microfibre shorts to avoiding much chafing of the nads.
• timing your run to coincide with the evening rush hour so as to experience the full range of asthma symptoms – asthma sufferers, you have my sympathy and best wishes.
• curse yourself for not remembering that nice bottle of water you got out of the fridge but neglected to pick up before leaving.

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