Back again
Here we are again, happy as can be. Let’s hope for longer than last time. We never did get to the bottom of just what happened but Chicken Yoghury wasn’t the only blog to fall victim to scumbags - Nosemonkey and The Sharpener being just two others.
Anyway. I’ve taken the opportunity to rebuild the blog from scratch, tidy the place up a bit, add some new features, and bin some old ones. If anybody’s missing anything or has any suggestions, please pipe up and I’ll have a look.
Thanks to WordPress’s import doohicky, I’ve been able to move all the posts from my redoubtable fallback position, Chicken Backup, to this place. Should Chicken Yoghurt go down again, let’s all head on back over to Backup.
I’ve also taken up Twittering again, so my tweets will appear here in a daily digest. If you haven’t tried it, I really recommend giving it a go. You can fire your blog’s RSS feed into it or the one from your moblog or whatever. And writing blog posts - from your mobile phone, Instant Messenger, web browser, third party thingamajig or Twitter itself - in 140 characters or less is a nice little mental exercise with the need for economy and succinctness.
Just need to say that big love has to go to Jo and Ben for helping me out getting this place sorted again. And also to Clive who I owe big time.
Let’s roll.
PS. I’m really, really, really sorry that everybody on the email list got all 100 posts sent again when I imported the Chicken Backup posts to Chicken Yoghurt. The post emailer went a bit doolally. Sorry.
Posted on February 7th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
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Not just emails. When I got in and launched Twitter I thought you’d gone beserk, until I realised what was happening
Anyhow, good to see you back at home.
Welcome back. I’ve started the stop watch
We shall have words about the Chicken Spam later!
Sue.
is there any prospect of finding out who did it, or is that a dead end?
There exists a vaguely interesting list of IP addresses that track back to an assortment of organisations. I say vaguely, given that most of the IP addresses link back to ISPs in Korea, none of whom ever responded to abuse complaints.
I have to say that I share my views with those of Mark Dark (a blogger in Ken MacLeod’s novel “The Execution Channel”) who, while watching executions of various insurgents, criminals, etc, rues the fact that he never sees spammers having their throats slit or a bullet in the back of their heads. That for Dark is more just that the killings broadcast by the channel.
I’d recommend the book to anyone partial to near-contemporary SF, with a twist of espionage thriller and political discussion. Not forgetting to mention Ken’s entertaining use of “Somefuckedupistan” to describe those areas of the Middle East being royal screwed by US and allied forces.
*waves*
I’m also hoping to be unveiling a shiny new look fairly shortly. But first I’m going to indulge myself with a Mulholland Drive / INLAND EMPIRE double-bill, having just got back from the HMV sale. So I may be in no fit mental state for the next few days…
(The headers on individual post pages don’t align properly in IE7 on Vista, by the by. Other than that it’s very shiny. Hurrah, etc.)
Cheers, NM. Fixed now. Bloody Microsoft.
A David Lynch double bill, you say. Haven’t watched one of his for ages.
Welcome back!
Welcome back, meanwhile:
Petition to Stop Blair heading the EU as President. You signed yet Justin?
The decorators did a good job Justin, nice and clean.
Good to get out of the caravan?
Yaay, have at ye, unseen denizens of the wired dark! - Chickyog is baaaack!
Guorn my son!
Welcome back, I hope it’s the bullet proof wordpress you’ve got now.
If I may pass along this information-
There’s a blogswarm for the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war on the 19th March, being coordinated to get things going at march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com so if you want to get involved/ mark it in your diary/spread the word that would be great.
It’s good to have you back.
Welcome back Justin!
Nice design. A slightly “cleaner” look than the old one. I like it!
Yes, welcome back. I was getting a bit worried the other day when I couldn’t find even the back up (forgot the name - doh - ended up on Son of Chicken Yoghurt - now that’s a blast from the [ast).
*waves*
New tidy-up looks very smart.
Tch. And without my permisssion, too.