Category Archives: Blog

Thistle is Dead

Sep 21, '04 – 4:57 am

It would seem that Thistle development has definitely come to an end. The developer himself has switched to using WordPress, which strongly suggests that I may want to find something else to power this little self indulgence. Blah.
Whatever I switch to, I doubt it’ll support importing entries from Thistle, which leads to the inevitable question [...]

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Whither Thistle?

Feb 15, '04 – 1:06 am

Harumph. After six months away I thought I’d check in and see what developments had been taking place over at Scotland Software, whence Matt Gemmell produces Thistle. Sadly, it seems the most recent word is from 24 July 2003, and the forums are currently returning a phpBB critical error. This bodes ill. Perhaps [...]

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Well, There Went June

Jun 30, '03 – 11:38 pm

Right. Obviously I have been a lax diarist this past month.
I love my iBook, but it’s been a troublesome creature. A few weeks ago its HD spontaneously fragged itself, and not 2 days after I received the repaired unit back from Apple, the LCD backlight died, necessitating another round-trip to Cupertino. All seems well now, [...]

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Image Gallery Goodness

May 14, '03 – 4:40 am

Sortof. I’m playing with PhotoFrame, seeing if it will suit my needs. It might just do the trick. It could be a bit more elegant in many ways — god how I hate frames — but we’ll see how it goes.
Doesn’t seem to support multiple galleries, however, which may well [...]

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Duh

May 11, '03 – 12:51 am

Thanks to nicksay, of the forums, I am Glossary-ing and Showing Smiles in entries now, and have a line on wedging the Kung-Tunes output into the sidebar. Right now the latter’s doing its thing but being rather ugly. I may reconsider this.
Now that iTunes 4 serves, I’d like to link to a stream [...]

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