Pile of Dross

Hmm, just had my first two comment spams. My technique of not advertising this blog anywhere has obviously failed. Security through obscurity never works.

Yay, LivePress now appears to be working from my new DreamHost host to LJ, now to work out why the plugin to allow me to add categories on the Write Post page isn’t working

Another test

If all is working this should show up on livejournal

Oh dear, this blog does seem to have descended into acronym soup somewhat - Grid Acronym Soup to be precise. Still it does make slightly more sense if you know that C.M.S. here normally means the LHC experiment Compact Muon Solenoid, rather than Content Management System, but not much more.

I’ve bought the fifth Harry Potter (Audio)book off iTunes to listen to on my ipod on the way to work. I didn’t listen to it today due to a disagreement with iTunes about what the words

iPod Sync Complete

actually mean, so instead listened to a loop of Tori Amos’ cover of I don’t like Mondays, something that may possibly concern my fellow commuters if they knew :-). So no opinion on it so far, other than if the intention is to stop people buying unofficial then they may want to consider lowering the price to something a little less extortionate;I mean for 50ukp I could probably buy all the sodding paper books and still have at least tenner left over.

This means I’ll be “reading” 3 books:

Annotated DragonLance Chronicles, amusing if only for the attempts to claim that spelling differences were intentional

Quicksilver, picked this up before I left for DESY along with Ursula le Guin’s Earthsea Quartet and didn’t manage to finish it before I came back, which is the first time on a work trip that I haven’t finished all my reading material by halfway through. Indeed even reading it throughout the train journeys up north and back again I’m still only 4/5s of the way through

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, as mentioned above

In line with all corporate guidelines on rebranding, after the merger comes the rename. So this blog is now officially a Pile of Dross. Next comes a new logo.

Sad thing is I’m not kidding either. Anyone have any ideas of things that evoke the spirit or nature of dross?

I’ve finally decided to merge the two blogs I’ve been keeping for a while, the personal one on LiveJournal and the work one on my own server. So as to not throw the few people who actual read my LJ one off, and not fill the LJ namespace with a million and one RSS feeds, I’m using Live-press to synchronise the two. On the upside, there’ll be more entries, as I try and update the work one everyday. On the downside, the work ones tend to be a brain dump written 10 minutes before I leave the office and are normally fairly techy. Currently I’m not intending to merge older entries