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Walking home today I thought I could smell something burning… I went on my usual way and passed an alleyway and thought there was a little bit of smoke so I put it down to that… How wrong could I be (usually very!)

When down my street I walked passed another alley, very close to my house and there were a couple of my neighbours looking, from the opposite side of my street over the houses.

There was thick black, acrid smoke billowing up into the air from the general direction of an old, disused food processing factory. (more…)

The seventh incarnation of warliss.com is finally here, it’s hot off the presses today (well hot off my laptop!) as are a few new entries in the blog.

I’ve, also, spent a few hours restoring old (pre-WordPress) blog entries to the site, so now there is no year long gap. The only way I’ve been able to do this is manually adding the post and editing the time stamp accordingly.

I’ve sourced most of the articles/posts from the Wayback Machine, this is a very good resource, but is no real alternative to making proper backups.

That is the real lesson I’ve learnt from this exercise. Must take backups of the MySQL tables.

I’ve added a few new posts to the site, stuff I found from old backups of the site from when it was powered by CuteNews. There is rather a large gap between July 2003 and June 2006 that I’m looking into (meaning I’m going to check out my stack of unordered, unsorted, CDs and DVDs that have nothing written on them…)

It would surprise some people that I’m the first to tell them to back things up and my personal efforts to backup things are patchy at best (and shite at worst.)

I think that everything in this copy of WordPress is going to be merged with the online version (and if this is now on the online version then I finally did something I said I would.)

Am writing this on my way home from work and listening to Pink Floyd. Bloody good music.

I’ve had to do some thinking around a slight problem with the theme. The problem is one of how to have a menu displayed containing links for non WordPress portions of warliss.com.

So I thought about it, had a coffee and biscuit and thought about it.

Then I stopped thinking about it and worked on something else. (more…)

I’ve been looking at guitars again, this time to replace (yes you heard me, replace) my acoustic.

I’m thinking about getting an electro-acoustic and ‘upgrading’ from my old (and somewhat trusty) Tanglewood SG-BK, the black acoustic with seaguls on the scratchplate, sounds strange I know, but it plays well, for the price I paid.