Ten years of (non-)blogging There have been lots of tenth anniversaries so far this year. But the biggest celebration is today, 24 April: exactly ten years of blogging on this site.
Jekyll with Prose Jekyll is a beautifully lightweight alternative to the likes of WordPress. But the main disadvantage, for ‘normal’ users, is that you really need to be ...
WordPress to Jekyll If either of you read my posts by actually visiting this site, rather than by using an RSS feed reader (such as feedly), then you may have noticed some ...
Links I've always had lots of links on this site ("always" as in "since before 2002"). Such a list was a good idea in the days before Google (BG). But now I t...
End-of-year blogging ego trip Bloggers traditionally indulge themselves with a bit of introspection and ego-boosting on 31st December. Now, I'm no blogger (Ceci n'est pas un blog, of...
Nothing worth reading This is the first entry in the new Research Blog [update: tagged under astronomy and computing], reserved for posts of a tedious, technical or boring na...
New category for boring posts Tedious and technical posts related to my research in astronomy are henceforth to have a home on this blog (update: they are now tagged under astronomy ...
Blogging: good or bad? A weblog, or blog, is well described by Dilbert.com: When I see news stories about people all over the world who are experiencing hardships, I worry abo...
Ceci n’est pas un blog Thanks to WordPress, K2 and ColdMedia, I've been able to give this site a new feel. I hope you like it. I don't want to start writing a blog (I'll expla...