Blogging

Not moving

Moving URLs is a stupid idea. What was I thinking of? It’d be crazy to just abandon all the existing links out there and would take ages to sort everything out.

Instead, I’m just going to change the name of the blog. The difference between the URL and the title has always annoyed me a bit. The tagline will be a quote I like at the time, so it will change every so often.

Moving…

I am going to ignore my own advice and move this blog’s URL next week.

The new address will be http://theclosedcircle.com.

Obviously I will keep the two running side by side for a day or two to ensure everything has switched smoothly enough.

davebriggs.net will just end up being a holding page, which I can use to develop stuff out of harm’s way, like the Goal Mouths forum, which itself will be going live at http://goalmouths.com on Monday, all being well…

Back now

Well, I am back now and should be posting again more often.

Here’s a few things I have been playing around with recently, some of these things may never see the light of day.

  • I’m looking into trying to do for football discussion what Palimpsest did for books. Still not sure on the title. Stewart, who is helping me out, suggests Goal Mouths but my original idea was the slightly clumsier My Cultured Left Foot. Any thoughts would be appreciated. The site is hidden away here. It’s running on phpBB at the moment, as I doubt numbers will be great enough to warrant the investment into VBulletin, say.
  • I have installed a version of Drupal, which lifts various stylings and user accounts from a Vbulletin install. I had the idea as I wanted a CMS that could create some sort of directory of authors, with biographical information, bibliographies, appropriate links and whatnot. Am not entirely convinced just yet, as Drupal seems to be more of a blogging platform than anything else, but more playing might reveal a way in which it could be used. The work in progress is here. Drupal is being used in the interesting Open Source Theology project.
  • I received a job lot of Ubuntu CDs at the weekend. 32 and 64 bit ones, and some Mac ones too. If anyone would like one, email me your details and I will post it through.

Remember, remember

Bonfire!

Had a jolly time at the bonfire and fireworks party last night.

I guess a relevant link to push here would be Guy Fawkes’ blog – a great one for UK parliamentary rumour and gossip.

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