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Arabian Adventure
One of my New Year’s resolutions this year (well, OK, it’s my only one) is to try to travel more. In a few years’ time, Eloïse will be in school and regular travel will be much harder, so it’s important … Continue reading
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Democrats Disgraced
You’ve got to hand it to the American Democratic party, when it comes to backbone, they don’t have a vertebra between them. Tens of thousands of people marched in Washington yesterday against Bush’s illegal war in Iraq. Guess how many … Continue reading
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The Return Of Unauthenticated Commenting
Some time ago, I turned off the ability of unauthenticated users to comment on entries made to this blog. Registered TypeKey users could still comment, but apparently it was too much trouble for a lot of people to register with … Continue reading
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Data Migration
The migration of our blog data from Berkeley DB to MySQL is now complete and the performance of the site has, as expected, improved somewhat. By how much depends on what you’re doing: reading, commenting, searching, etc. I’m sure I’ll … Continue reading
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New Look
Even though it was a slow and painful process (and one I said I wouldn’t bother to endure), I moved the blog over to the latest Movable Type templates in the course of yesterday. The hardest part was getting the … Continue reading
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