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I will not hear complaints

dixie — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:33:11 +0000

If you think you’re sick of hearing “Deck the Halls,” try singing it fifty-seven times while looking like it’s the most festive, exciting thing you’ve ever had the privilege to sing. I didn’t keep a tally of how many times I sang “Silent Night” this season, but I believe it hit triple digits. (And if you count it by the number of times I went through the tune, which means three times per run ’cause we’d sing three verses, it definitely got into triple digits.) If I never have to sing “We Three Kings” again in my life, I will still feel I’ve lived a full life.

The weird thing is that I still love Christmas music. I’m just tired of singing it. I think a high tolerance to Christmas music is a requirement for a choral singer.

Having discharged my holiday duties as a singer, and nearly done with my duties as a postgrad (ha!), I depart today for Dublin via a long and convoluted route: Hattiesburg, Mississippi, then New York. I will bring my computer and will probably check mail once a day, but I won’t blog.

I will Twitter like a fiend, however. Follow me (DixieNomad) across the country, 140 characters at a time, if you’re so inclined.

Orange is the new black

uber — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:22:31 +0000

The buttons in the top-right corner can be used to change the colour of the site, or the layout. If, for some reason, our new Bumbl33t colour scheme doesn’t do it for you, you can try new combinations of R,G,B and more.

In other news, Akismet has caught more than 50,000 spam messages for us. I’d like to thank the developers on behalf of my relatively-RSI-less hands for their hard work.

Alternatives to real blogging

dixie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:39:47 +0000

As time goes by, I have more to do and less to talk about. Well, to be fair, less that’s fit for public consumption. Most of my braincycles these days are taken up with two types of things:

1. Stuff that would make watching paint dry seem really interesting.

2. Stuff that is none of your damn business.

3. Stuff related to knitting. (Which sometimes, but not always, falls into one of the two previous categories.)

Last time something like this happened, I requested leave to include some extra content (knitting-related), and that worked out pretty well. Now, facing a month where I will either blog a great deal or almost none at all, I must address the issue again. I’ve signed up for Twitter and enjoy it. Would people object if I used something like LoudTwitter to compile all my Twitters (basically microblogs) and post ‘em here automagically once a day?

You need not phrase your answers in the form of a haiku, but I will give extra weight to your opinion if you do.

All good things

dixie — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:32 +0000

My haiku week game
Ends today, a great success.
Thank you for playing.

Music to seek out:
“Through the Fire and the Flames.”
This, my gift to you.

Because brevity is the soul of wit

dixie — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:49:32 +0000

Every day this week
My blogs will all be haikus.
Please comment likewise.

While waiting for service to resume…

uber — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:17:43 +0000

I will be fiddling with the site for the next decade or so. While you wait, I recommend the magic of MC Hawking.

Video here.

Site Advisory – Very Important Notice

uber — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:40:50 +0000

If you use Internet Explorer to view this site, you need to download a Trojan Horse remover ASAP and check your machine for JS:Agent-AE [Trj]
Specifically Avast! VPS Version 000780-2, 11/10/2007.

Somehow, someone injected code into this site that creates an invisible iframe with a link to a site that attempts to download the Trojan. I will be getting in touch with our hosts this evening to find out if we can work out what is going on.

In the interim, please remember to use AV Scanners if you browse the web.

The wheel in the sky

dixie — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:09:04 +0000

I was most of the way through my morning blog-reading when I realised what day it is today. “Oh. Right. I guess I should say something.” So I will. It’s three days after my undergrad boss’s wedding anniversary and the day before his birthday. Some other stuff might have happened in between those events that upset a lot of people at the time and is still ruining lives to this day, but I’ve nothing more to say on it.

Last night, four of five Coven members were sleeping in my house. (The fifth was invited, but declined. Something about not being able to take a ten-day holiday on a fortnight’s notice.) I suppose that leaves the few of us still working this week in sole control of the blog, as I doubt uber or Kola Bear will check in before they return to the GMT. In the meantime, I have to figure out what to send people off to do during the day.

What should people see/do while in LA? I don’t know any more; I’ve been here too long…

Day is done

dixie — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:03:35 +0000

I’ve successfully beaten a particularly frustrating bit of code into submission, and I’m going to go home now.

I believe, though I cannot prove, my group’s annual mini-conference is next week and I will be expected to present something. (I have my hopes and personal expectations, but we’ll see how all that matches up with reality a week from now.) As a result, y’all won’t be hearing from me for the next fortnight or so.

Coven now slightly more buzzword2.0 compliant

uber — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:41:05 +0000

I have added Ajax-style comment viewing to the system. Any troubles, please comment below.