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Download the first 100 entries

Jan 28

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Yesterday evening I put together a booklet of the first 100 entries to this weblog. It is available as a download in pdf format. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open it – but then you knew that already!

Click here to download it. Left click to open it in the browser, or right click and choose “Save Target as…” to save the file to your own computer.

I’ve turned the whole thing around so that it is chronological, rather than the reverse order that posts appear in on blogger.

I’ve also put a permananent link to it in the column on the right.

This online publication is the third publication by bluewater books. Enjoy.

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Numbers numbers

Jan 19

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Just a really quick post to mention a couple of interesting numbers:

This is the 97th post to this weblog.

I started counting visitors to the site last July and have just passed the 600 mark.

Total number of hits for the same period is 820.

I’m powering on to the 100th entry….

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Categories and contents

Jan 14

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I sent an email to Blogger (my host) today, asking them whether there are any plans to incorporate category and contents features in Blogger. From what I can see, these are not available features at the moment. There is a hack way of doing this, by making individual category page posts comprising links to posts about that particular subject, then making the link to that category page into a permanent link on the blog. But that seems like a really clumsy way of doing it – every time you make a new post to the blog, you have to edit each of the category pages to which it belongs.

Anyway, I’m waiting for a response from Blogger on this one. Any of you readers out there have any ideas how to achieve this?

This blog is approaching its 100th entry so the idea of contents lists, and categories sounds like a good way to help with navigation.

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NaNoBlogMo Phenomenon

Nov 8

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Well, I have stared writing the 50,000 words of novel for the National Novel Writing Month. It’s going painfully slowly. I was struggling to find the motivation to get the thing moving along steadily. I had set up a separate weblog to post some of the material I create, and to post comments as I go. It can be found at mywrinomo.blogspot.com . Well, after a few days it appeared on the nanoblogmo site (nanoblogmo.blogspot.com). I think it appeared some time on Saturday, and within hours I was receiving a huge hit rate. This is excellent – just the motivation I need to get writing some more…

So I will then…

Meanwhile hits to this weblog pour in steadily – I will soon be reaching my 300th visitor. And I will soon be posting my 100th post too, which surprises me. When I started this, I wasn’t sure how long it would last for. At the moment it feels like something that is ongoing, that is adapting and adjusting to my tastes as I progress, and taking in different things as I go.

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Sometimes it’s easier to speak

Oct 25

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There are days when the words don’t want to come forward. I surf across weblogs on the net (some are over on the right) and find some bloggers who post every single day. How do you do that? There are days when life gets in the way. There are days when emotions get in the way. And there are days when I just get in my own way, because I am not getting my own way!

Enough said!

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Monitoring weblogs on the fly

Jul 15

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I have been thinking for a few days now that there must be a way to monitor web pages for changes automatically. I regularly visit quite a large number of weblogs on a wide range of topics. Having to load each page separately, when many of them may not have had an update, is very laborious and time-wasting.

So, I did a google search on ‘web page changes alerts’ and found a load of different approaches. They fall into two categories – web based and software based. I chose one which is web based, and free. It’s ‘WatchThatPage’ available here:

WatchThatPage – Monitor web pages extract new information

It looks really good. You can set it to send emails at a frequency to suit, with details of which of the pages have updated. Let’s hope it’s ‘as good as it says on the box’!

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Blogging on the move

May 19

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Making a blog entry whilst travelling has always appealled  – now I can!

This entry is being written on a palm for transmission by email the next time I log on.

I know it’s boring reading but then most new experiments probably are.

Roll on a blackberry with a proper keyboard!

Stuart Eglin

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New interface

May 17

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Blogspot has gone through a major facelift. And I didn’t notice, because I haven’t been visiting for a little while. Well, I’m back – and promise more entries before the end of the week.

There’s a lot to write about – music, poetry, reviews and a heap of other things.

In the meantime, this is the first entry sent to blogger by email – hope it works!

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BACK SOON!

Mar 24

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After a couple of months of frozen creativity, I am back. I have been struggling with writing three journals – this online one, a learning journal I keep for work, and a personal journal which fits in my pocket. I’m trying to think through ways of integrating these – so that the learning and imaginative thoughts can go hand in hand with the material I generate for this journal. Just needs a little more thought. In the meantime, I’m back to writing in here at least a couple of times a week.

What music have I been listening to whilst I’ve been away? Even that was a bit out on the edge – I’ve been listening to lots of obscure ambient and noise music, with a share of found sounds too. Then I have also been listening to plenty of Radiohead and the last few albums by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd.

My interest in Buddhism continues…and I am thinking of doing First Degree Reiki.

Oh, and my PhD thesis was submitted a couple of weeks ago – time to wait for the viva now…

Books – finished reading John O’Farrell’s “The Best a Man can get” which was both hysterically funny, and painfully uncomfortable. A great read.

Well, it just took a few minutes and I’m back on line. I wish the redesign of the website was as straightforward. Can someone explain to me where I will find a free idiot’s guide to Frontpage so that I don’t keep pressing the wrong buttons and ending up with completely dysfunctional web pages? Please email me if you can help.

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Disappeared without trace then returns again

Jan 19

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Regular readers of weblogs will find, like I do, that even the most dedicated bloggers have to take time out every now and then. I’m sure I’m not the only one who reads the best blogs regularly and then finds that one has stopped writing. Return visits happen every few days, accompanied with the anxiety that they might have stopped writing – moved on to something else. Then there is the relief of finding an entry again.

Well, apologies for disappearing around Christmas and New Year – but I’m back again. I took a much-needed break, and then spend 10 days travelling a lot for work which exhausted me and kept me away from the screen and keyboard.

Now for some serious blogging….

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Where has he gone?

Dec 8

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Things are picking up in work now. And the poetry reading last week is causing a flurry of brain activity in that arena too.

Keeping a log is challenging at times like these.

I’m also being software challenged with the job of updating and redesigning the website (www.geocities.com/stuarteglin) which really needs an overhaul. I’m planning to do it with Frontpage, but have never used that programme so am starting from scratch. Hopefully it will be beautifully intuitive and I’ll be able to reproduce the pages from the old site together with a new front-end and new sections to build up the site. We shall see – ongoing reports to be seen here first.

Music at the moment – everything Robert Wyatt. I saw the documentary on BBC4 here in the UK which was wonderful. I am now listening to all the Wyatt albums I own. Favourites are ‘Solar flares burn for you’ and ‘Cuckooland’ – the two new ones.

I’m also listening to the latest album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ‘The Last DJ’ which is a great mainstream album.

Enough for now – I’ll keep you posted…

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Disappeared – but back soon

Oct 10

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Changing jobs is more disruptive than I can remember from the last time I did it! I changed jobs on 1st October and since then have had little time to breathe…

I’ll be writing things in here again – in the next few days. I promise.

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