Earth: Mostly Harmless

Truncated posts

Truncated..

Ahem.

I realised last night that the hellish import procedure I went through to get my posts out of the old Blogsome site was to some extent in vain.

It turns out that the XSL stylesheet I used to turn the Blogsome Atom feed into RSS 2.0 chose the summary field and not the description field for each item to use as the RSS description.

The practical results of which is that all of my imported posts were truncated to about 300 characters, and links and images were stripped out.

I’m going through all of them gradually putting the needful back in.

Arr.

New Blog

Hi all,
I’ve decided to go out on my own and set up the old Earth: Mostly Harmless site on this new domain name instead of relying on Blogsome’s free (but limited) hosting.

All posts from the old blog have been moved over - but unfortunately, moving your (very nice) comments over in a simple way wasn’t possible given the constrains of Blogsome - though I’ll continue to investigate ways to do this.

Many thanks to all for making this blog worth writing!

I’m still thinking up things to put here. In the meantime, here’s the best photo ever taken:

Via the K2 website

Hello world!

Note: This was originally posted on an older revision of this blog hosted somewhere else, so it doesn’t make sense in its current context. Just here for completeness.

Hi there everyone - this is my new blog. I’ll be moving everyhing over from my old blog at Blogger over the next few days, as WordPress seems much better to me, and free hosting is not to be sniffed at!

In the short term, a lot of the articles I’ll be posting here will be slightly out of date as I’m retrospectively posting articles from my Blogger weblog and backdating them. Stay tuned for some new stuff too. Feel free to comment!