The beginning
— Well, finally I made it at last and got myself one of these blog things. By Tristan Nitot; source: Wikimedia Commons Actually that’s inaccurate. I’ve had one since March, but…”
Well, finally I made it at last and got myself one of these blog things.
By Tristan Nitot; source: Wikimedia Commons
Actually that’s inaccurate. I’ve had one since March, but my brother and his dj collective had until yesterday hijacked it to organise their next night in September.
It was up at the Media Hype Pixels domain, a PHP / flatfile effort based on PivotLog (www.pivotlog.net). PivotLog is a highly serviceable system under the GPL licence, but its configuration is a over complex to say the least.
The night before, it got trashed while I was (carefully) editing the templates! When I took a back up of the data it was illegible, coded in this horrid shorthand that I assume must be there just to speed up flatfile queries.
So I took it down and limped off resolved to find a better solution, preferably in VBScript, which is a bit easier for me to mod and maintain.
We’ll see how this ASP / Access effort goes. Thanks to betaparticle.com for a so far simple enough and enjoyable experience. Open source releases for Windows are so rare!
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Blog upgrade in progress
Source: Wikimedia Commons I’ve got the decorators in (well, myself anyway), so the Blog may have some issues over the next few days. This is an upgrade to a new version and
- Originally published: 13 Mar 2006 in The eponymous website
Hot blog with mustard
Isn’t it warm right now? I resigned from my job this week. Caught myself wondering whether my next place of work might have air-conditioning! I’ve been really busy the last few
- Originally published: 17 Jun 2005 in Personalia
WAC gets blogging
Blogging as a tool for reaching out to faraway, ignorant audiences
- Originally published: 10 Apr 2006 in Technology
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.
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