Yes yes it’s been ages and ages since I’ve posted here. The primary reason is laziness. The secondary reason is that Emma and I have started a new blog: It Never Snowed, which is documenting our family adventure to Bangalore for a two-year assignment. See you there, and hope you enjoy it
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india
Sunday, March 11th, 2012aaaaaand we’re back
Friday, May 8th, 2009Sorry about the strangeness of the site over the past few days, readers. It seems that my ownership of the domain had expired – when you renew every 5 years it’s easy to forget. So a bit of scrambling around and some tech support from a friend, and we’re back in business. I’m sure you missed my dashing wit.
upgraded
Saturday, December 13th, 2008You hopefully can’t tell, but I’ve just upgraded m’WordPress installation to the latest version – 2.7. It’s a slightly cumbersome but not particularly difficult process involving a mixture of database backing up and FTP file manipulation. You just need to concentrate so that you don’t overwrite the wrong things. Apparently from now on it’ll be a one-click process so it should be much easier for the less technically inclined.
Anyway you shouldn’t be able to tell, but let me know if anything seems different or broken.
pictures from christmas
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Just doing some geekery – trying to get the PC upstairs to work (Windows keeps freezing and I have no idea why – at the moment it’s almost completely unusable, and even re-installing doesn’t seem to be working); upgrading WordPress for this blog to keep it clean and fresh; and posting up pics of Toby and Dara. Here are the pictures – enjoy!
post 1000
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007This is a blog milestone – the 1000th post on andrew.mogendorff.com! The first posts were in July 2001 (the first one complaining about the weather, I see) and I’m quite proud that I’ve kept this going for so long. Yay, me.
mobile post
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Emma and I finally got new phones this week. We upgraded from old basic nokia handsets to very nice blackberry pearl phones and so far I am very impressed. This is my first ‘smart’ phone and it is excellent to have such good integration with my calendar and gmail. In fact the post you are reading now is being typed on the phone – how exciting for you I’m sure only 7 years after mobile blogging was invented.
toby and dara domain
Monday, December 10th, 2007Finally – now set up: tobyanddara.mogendorff.com. For all your Toby and Dara Mogendorff needs (um, mostly photos), go to tobyanddara.mogendorff.com…. today!
in continents
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007If you’re on the main page of this blog and you scroll down and look at the sidebar on the right, you’ll see the little clustrmap picture, which shows approximately where in the world visitors to these humble pages are viewing them (these humble pages with horribly mangled grammar). You can also click here or on the map itself for a closer look.
Reason for mentioning it is that I just noticed I now have had visitors from all the major continents except Antarctica. I hadn’t noticed the blips from South America or Africa before. How exotic! Also in case you’re wondering who is viewing from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, that would be our Bermudian visitors.
upgrade
Friday, June 8th, 2007You probably won’t notice much diff, but I just spent 15 satisfyingly, but not too complexly, geeky minutes upgrading WordPress from 2.1 to 2.2. Apparently there are some good things in WordPress 2.2 – basically as far as I can tell it continues to be seamless, and it just works great.
As far as the blog itself goes the backup produced a text file of over 1.6 Mb – that’s a lot of typing over the last six years.
Hope you still like what I’m doing here – please let me know, and also let me know if you see any technical issues with the upgrade.
links
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007I got a note from Amazon.com today saying that they’re rolling out a beta service to Amazon Associates, which should automatically detect web page content and build a quick link to their site. So you might see some new links – I think that if you hover your mouse pointer over the links it’ll show a small pop-up window describing what they’re going to try to sell to you.