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Moving on from photo-a-day

138 words posted by Simon on 1 January 2013

Happy new year to everyone reading this!

Yesterday, I finished my year-long photo-a-day project, and promised to come up with something new for 2013.

Several people – Wendy among them – have been strongly encouraging me to continue with photo-a-day, but I feel like I’ve run out of things to feature! So, we’ve come up with a somewhat vain compromise – a photo of me every day!

I don’t know if I’ll manage to keep this one up for the whole year, and I don’t think I’ll be quite as assiduous about making up the numbers if I forget on any given day, but I’ll try my best to do it as often as I can. The first photo will come later today, when I’ve finished designing a new template for the posts… I’m calling it my “scrapbook”!

This post was filed under: Diary Style Notes, Notes, Photo-a-day 2012, Site Updates.

Summer Books: Returns Next Week

18 words posted by Simon on 10 August 2008

Due to unforeseen circumstances, there’s no book review this week: The Summer Books series will continue next Sunday.

This post was filed under: Notes, Summer Books.

Light blogging

32 words posted by Simon on 19 June 2008

As regular readers will already know, I’m celebrating… So expect little or no blogging for a little while. If you’re desperate to read something, why not browse the newly re-structured archive?

This post was filed under: Blogging, Notes, Introspection.

Site restructuring

70 words posted by Simon on 6 May 2008

Over the past week or so, along with some simple design tweaks, much of sjhoward.co.uk has been restructured. The old design of the archive, for example, was appropriate for when the blog had 250 posts, but not for the 1,300+ posts of today. The new structure shouldn’t feel like too much of a change (I’m hoping most visitors won’t have noticed), and should be a more future-proof solution. Here’s hoping.

This post was filed under: Notes, Site Updates.

Firing on all cylinders

80 words posted by Simon on 31 March 2008

After some serious hardcore maintenance, including the slightly traumatic step-up to WordPress 2.5 some hard and fast recoding of parts of the site, and even a few tweaks to the graphics, I think I’m right in saying that everything is finally back to normal – if not better than ever.

Yet Sod’s Law says that as soon as I post this, something is certain to go wrong… I’d really rather like to get back to writing rather than coding! 🙂

This post was filed under: Notes, Site Updates.

Maintenance

41 words posted by Simon on 30 March 2008

Large parts of the site aren’t working at the moment, and are unlikely to be for much of the day. It’s all part of ongoing maintenance to improve the site’s efficiency and hence secure its long-term future. Apologies for any inconvenience.

This post was filed under: Notes, Site Updates.

Too Late!

15 words posted by Simon on 18 March 2008

The Instant Opinion promotion has now ended. Thank you to all those who took part.

This post was filed under: Notes.

Instant Opinion: Offer ends at midnight

32 words posted by Simon on 17 March 2008

This is your last chance to buy Instant Opinion for just 79p – The offer officially closes at midnight tonight, and will be removed from the site shortly thereafter. You’ve been warned!

This post was filed under: Notes, Site Updates.

Coming up…

15 words posted by Simon on 10 March 2008

Come back at midday tomorrow for an exclusive announcement and an offer you can’t refuse…

This post was filed under: Notes.

Liveblogging Eurovision Pre-Selection

34 words posted by Simon on 1 March 2008

I’ll be liveblogging the Eurovision Preselection thing tonight from 7pm. Hopefully. If I’m home by then. And if that’s what time it actually starts – I’m relying on my increasingly frazzled brain to remember.

This post was filed under: LiveBlogs, Notes.