The tower was locked (its future being chained to the mast like a breeze crossed with water from the past tense (that immense wall of sound’s collage (its anagram eye, loveless wireless) abstract but intact. Your childhood lies like party lines populated by ghosts (some Fenian, others pulled from the CSIRO telephone directory. The first email (never sent cced Gaia but bounced. So it goes … (that manual exchange inside a powerhouse (a museum exhibit etched in charcoal rides the lightning (killing composers, developing in still-life. Meanwhile, father’s crystal set gathers dust in a council tip. The volume & tuning knobs had fallen off anyway, replaced by one cent coins (also obsolescent. A smell it gave off when “live” could trigger memories you never knew you had back then, in the then when events unfolded in a logical fashion, proceeding to their happy ending, or a lesson (the Masonic Temple’s front yard littered with broken glass, dead weeds (ah that crazy guy who ran screaming down the street (that joke about Oddfellows isn’t so funny now, in his aftermath, the grey dawn of dead things screwed into the sky (that line of furrows from the ground wavered across his forehead, an object of ridicule allowed one last laugh (surprised to end up on someone’s thrown-away camera (your soul locked inside a mangled memory chip (just an SD card away from rapture (or was it repatriation? as shards of laughter escaped from the abandoned sun memorial (a sound came out of the blue sky like, as if from nowhere (a disembodied voice he thought he’d heard on the antique television set describing Vietnam was God (turned out it was the government (calling him up.
Tag: Technology (page 3 of 3)
Writing about tech issues by a self-confessed neo-Luddite.
… that my homepage daveydreamnation.com has been down for maintenance for the past five days, despite my good intentions.
… that the theme I’m now using is perhaps more suitable to a magazine or newsletter format, and contains many features I’ll never use.
… that the theme templates seem to contain many bugs and errors that make it difficult to use them properly, despite their potential.
… that the slideshow in particular is not working, to my chagrin, as this was the only real reason I decided to switch themes in the first place.
… that, in general, my approach to web design and page layout is based on readability and a love of text as opposed to pretty images.
… and that I *could* work my arse off *creating* a functional *community* here and still be deemed not Web 2.0 enough for some.
BUT …
… after ten years of teaching myself HTML and PHP, and having posted over 1100 FREE pieces of content that no one except the Googlebot actually reads …
… I AM GOING TO TAKE MY OWN SWEET TIME FIXING THESE PROBLEMS.
Kfxbai.
In an effort to break the world procrastination record, I’ve spent most of today re-vamping this site’s design, mostly by riffing off a neat three column WordPress theme originally created by refueled.net that is, according to their website, “perfect for churches or other non-profits”. You can see why I was immediately interested. In other news, I’ve decided to take an extended break from Facebook and Myspace and have hence deleted links to these sites here (although I do find it ‘passing strange’ that my new site design bears more than a slight resemblance to that of Facebook – not to mention Wikipedia and WordPress …. nothing a change of colour wouldn’t fix … ah, more procrastination … ). It remains to be seen whether these deletions will be sufficient to discourage me from more time-wasting. Watch this space to find out, I guess.
Welcome to [d/dn v.10] – finally!
I’m currently trying to migrate all of my Blogger posts to this blog, with some difficulty. Seems I’m losing a lot of formatting, the server’s timing out and sundry other jitches are cursing my desire to upgrade and move on out. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel: I’ve managed to move my Marzipan posts without drama, plus about three quarters of my old home page blog posts.
In addition, I’m deleting a couple of blogs I first created a year or two ago. The first, “various journals”, was going to be a journal called various journals, to be composed of the names and publishing details of people whose biography included the words “… and has been published in various journals”. Kind of a rollcall of shame, with phase two consisting of the creation of a real journal, also called various journals, publication in which would entitle a writer to then state in future biographies that their work had indeed been published in various journals. I might still get around to doing it one day but for now, it’s been deleted from Blogger.
The second, “The Festival of Melbourne Festivals”, was a kind of piss-take tribute to Melbourne, perhaps the ultimate the city of festivals. The aim was to feature a different festival each week (hell, why not day) and to make money by seeking sponsorships from said festivals. More elaborate plans involved a weekly (or daily) “launch” of the Festival of Melbourne Festivals, given that it’s just a 365 day a year party in this town. If I had a shred of business nous I might actually be able to make something of it but, as with “various journals”, “TFOMF” has been consigned to the dustbin marked “deleted”.
Now let’s just hope the same thing doesn’t happen to my [dnrc] posts. Seething!