foolfillment: the blog

Well, it’s all over adn not before time. I stopped watching it years ago, so when I saw tonight’s episode (which I watched out of curiosity) it was only about the 5th or 6th new episode I’ve seen in about 4 years and it was dross! It reminded me why I stopped watching it, I don’t really have aything insightful or revolutionary to say about it, just that I cannot understand how anyone can find it funny. I’ve seen old shows recently and even ones from the 3rd or so series seemed tired and limp. How on earth did it keep running? Oh well, at least it’s all over now and we can get on with watching Frasier. Or something

no big brother rules back in force, so much as a peep out of anybody about it and there’ll be angry words and deleted comments.

Did anyone see I am not an animal on BBC 2 on Monday? Wasn’t it good?!

In my usual way I typed that last entry and published it straight off, (preview? wassat?) and then corrected some typo’s and reworded some bits once I’d seen it big. The only problem is that I resaved it 4 times and now poor graybo has 4 trackback pings from the same post. Why did that happen?

has been very quiet but I make no apologies for that, I’ve been busy doing various things, some of which you might hear about later, others you won’t becasue they were boring. However a short update is in order, in my last post I said I was about to enter into a period of redesign, an I still am but this will be put off for a wee while. I try not to go into any detail about Movable Type, the stuff that holds this site together. This is partly because the people who read this site are, in the main, not interested and partly because other people do it better than I could. I’m making an exception now, this post is all about this boring stuff.

Last Monday blogger rejigged it’s control panel (or dashboard like they want you to call it) and there was uproar, for want of a better word, in more than a few places (from Gordon and DG for two examples) and just a few days later Movable Type announced their new pricing plan. This caused huge uproar (just take a look at the trackbacks at the bottom of this page on Mena’s Corner) and spurred a lot of people to move. I don’t know if I’ll move or not, I had been waiting, like tonnes of other bloggers, for MT3 and now it’s here I suddenly have the possibility that I’ll have to pay in the future and for what? The improvements/changes from this version to the new don’t go as far as I want or had expected.

I realise that lots of people have made the point about ‘why should you get something for free’ but that don’t hold no water here. At the moment. I’m a poor student who doesn’t blog a lot, not enough to warrant paying any large sums of money for it, just enough to have my own webspace and no adverts, but after that I don’t see it being worth it, I’m not going to go into that part of the topic, not here or at least not now. Other people can do that better, people like Mark Pilgrim who makes the point well and in relation to all of this.

And so, after a long rambling block of text and links here’s a short block of text and a few more links to summise. I, like Graybo agree with Vaughan and I’ll have a look over the course of the weekend and on Monday to see how Graybo gets on with the change over to WordPress. If it all goes well then I will follow, slowly becasue on the way I’ll actually get round to doing the redesign of foolfillment.

So there you have it, a long and tedious post all about how rubbish stuff is and why I’m (maybe) changing, if I keep this up maybe I’ll start to look like a real blogger?

I am effectively finished uni for the summer now, apart from one little exam (I think all I have to do is write my name and I pass, I don’t even have to spell it correctly) so the search for a job begins, I’ll be hitting the agencies on Thursday, armed with a posh cv and a lucky smile, or more likely, a dog-eared smucged sheet and sweat running down my face from battling the crowds on Buchanon Street.

Also coming up is a few changes here, some of which you may have noticed already, I’m hoping to do a major rebuild over summer, but hopefully you won’t notice. The thing is, you see, the templates that make up all the pages here are in a real mess and have no structure at all, and no comments either, which means it’s really difficult to make any changes. What I may do is a complete redesign, from scratch and come up with a nice snazzy site. One that you can appreciate as well as me. Don’t hold your breath though because I’m hoping it’ll be too sunny and I’ll be too busy to do it.

It’s not mine but I like it, (I might have heard it from Tim Vine??)

I bought some HP sauce the other day

I’m paying it off at 5 pence a month for the next 12 months

Oh, dear. There are strong words being sent their way by me again, I await their reply. Hang on, no there aren’t because the useless bint I spoke to one the phone gave me the wrong email address and it’s bounced back!

More angry words will be added to the email when I do find the right address.

Very soon I may have a new phone number. I’ve had too much bad experience with o2 so I’m going elsewhere, who would you recommend?

And by the way I can’t recommend highly enough this website which has a huge database of alternative numbers for companies who want to rip you off over the phone.

A combination of giving blood on Friday and a half hour long Orcadian Strip-the-Willow on Saturday night has led to a fairly impressive bruise at my left elbow.

Also the combination of being a pint short of blood of my usual amount, being out in the roasting sun with nothing to drink at the vet school rodeo during the day on Saturday and a subsidised bar at the ceilidh in the evening led to a very cheap night.