3rd June, 2010

The Day With Nobody There

Just as I fold myself back into a regular blogging routine, I experience my lowest number of daily visitors for a number of years. Possibly ever. Possibly THE LOWEST IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET.

Starting to think you guys prefer me when I shut-up. Heh.

Posted: June 3, 2010 at 7:45 am | Comments (14)

2nd June, 2010

The Day I Went Mobile. Hopefully.

I hope you’re reading this. If you’re not, it means I’ve ballsed up and something’s wrong with the settings of WordPress and the email posting feature thingy of WordPress doesn’t works. And by doesn’t works, I mean that it probably does but I fucked something up. How very unlike me, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Edit: well, FUCK IT. It didn’t work. Hhaarumph. Although there is a chance that TWO of these will show up if the other post’s delayed or something in which case … just be kind and pretend not to notice, okay?

Obviously, I’ve had a blog for seven years now (longer, if you count the frighteningly inane mutterings in my LJ – which I don’t, for the record) but this is the first time I’ve bothered with this particular feature. I’m trying to keep up momentum with this whole blogging malarky. It’ll probably fizzle away – much like my other most recents resurgences – but whilst I have a mind to update, it’s frustrating as hell when I logistically can’t. And while yes, I can post via the app on my iPhone, it’s a little much to sit there and play with my phone for an hour in the middle of my working day. Whilst sitting right next to my boss. In an open-plan office. Even by my questionable standards, that’s a tad unprofessional.

Trying to lift us out of the depressing note I left for your reading pleasure yesterday, shall we talk about something a little less existential? Something colourful and exciting and weird – maybe even a little outside the box? Like Lady Gaga, for example?

See what I did there? What a seamless link! Fucking hell I am AWESOME.

So, yeah. Gaga. As I think I mentioned, going to see her live was not my idea. D hearts her – hearts the music and the style and the whole WTFness about her – and whilst I don’t turn the radio off when she appears or anything (I am a closet POP Princess, after all), I can’t say that seeing her play live ever crossed my consciousness before. But I’m glad that I went; as I’m sure you can appreciate, the show was every bit as spectacular as you’d expect – amazing sets, crazy costumes and full-on awesome dance routines. Her voice was stunning. Perfect. Plus she said motherfucker, like, A LOT. What’s not to love?

Actually, I’ll tell you what’s not to love: SEWERAGE. Throughout the evening, every ten minutes or so, a hideous stench of fish – rotting, maggot-infested three-month-old fish – came wafting across the arena. Sometimes it was the delightful smell of shit, but for the most part it was dirty aquarium goodness so bad at times places that I had to pinch my nose to keep my dinner down. NOT COOL, O2. NOT COOL AT ALL.

I can only assume that it was a malfunction with the toilets/sewerage and not a deliberate scent piped in by Gaga … but who knows for sure?

Anyway, next up in my Summer of Music – which is what I’ve dubbed June 2010, considering I have four live shows lined up – will be Crowded House, whom we’re seeing perform on Friday. Saturday will be Stereophonics, which is fucking awesome as I haven’t seen them for a couple of years, and then I finish the month up with another visit to see Paul McCartney. YAY! It’s so typical that I’ve – quite literally – waited a lifetime to see Macca play live and I score two concerts within a six month period, but I don’t care. The show I saw at Christmas was beyond amazing and as it’s my birthday mid-month, I didn’t even have to justify the cost to myself this time. I repeat: yay!

Posted: June 2, 2010 at 1:28 pm | Comments (5)

10th January, 2009

The Day Dreamhost Was (Kinda) Free

If you want to host a PHPBB forum, perhaps a photography site, or even a WordPress powered blog of your own but are too tight skint to fork out for a Dreamhost hosting plan yourself, Dreamhost are offering free application hosting. It may not stay free though, so if you fancy it and you’re not already a DH customer, I’d suggest you sign up before the gravy train has left the station. Might be a nice way to try before you buy.

I find it a tad weird considering there’s so many cheap host plans out there but ho hum, I’m not stupid enough to kick a good thing in the balls.

Incidentally, I neither earn nor gain anything from making this post and there’s no referral codes in my links. I just wanted to spread the DH love. :)

Posted: January 10, 2009 at 9:02 am | Comments (6)