Thursday, February 05, 2009

Whilst we're at it

I'm surprised there isn't a handy iPhone app or webapp for Blogger.
Is its day past? Still, looks like I can email posts from my iPod... this doesn't mean I'll actually return to posting regularly, of course.

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Moves and Closures and Breaks, oh my!

The Blog Cabin has moved, along with the Ready Room, to a new host, 110mb.com. This has inevitably buggered all sorts of things up so everything looks ugly.

I may reconsider the whole site located at crosbies.co.uk, but for now I'm just trying to preserve the stuff people might be looking for - ie, any remaining NWN players. :)

It might make sense to make the Blog Cabin the main page, in fact. There might be a chance it might get updated - though my internet presence is essentially Facebook at the mo.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Dan Corbett is WeatherMan!

"That's the weather, for now" is Kirsty's regular blog sharing with the world the joy of Daniel Corbett, weatherman extraordinaire on BBC News 24.
He couples gloriously enthusiastic presenting style with off-the-wall metaphors and accompanying gesture worthy of Marcel Marceau. He is, in short, a gem of British TV.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

The 17th Century 'Cosmopolitan'

Loath as I am to link to The Daily Mail, this is nonetheless a rather interesting historical text on the social mores of the late 17th century: The 17th century women's guide to looking good.

The treatment is typically crass, but as an exercise in contrasting styles, perhaps that has its own value...

Monday, August 06, 2007

Comics Progress

Here on my Google/Picasa web album space, I've been uploading some longer samples of my comic book writing. The current short, 'Whoah!', should end up there in full, at least.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Compendium of Lost Words

Compendium of Lost Words

Must add this to the blog: The Phrontistery collects obscure, unusual and otherwise interesting bits of language for your pointless perusing pleasure.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Facebook

The advent of Facebook and my perhaps inevitable roping into it has encouraged me to return to this blog for the first time in over a year, if only to add a link to my Facebook profile.

Simple as Blogger is - and I now see that its integration with Google has aided this still further - it relies on you being self-motivated to keep updating. Once you lose that impetus, there's no-one kicking you to keep it up.

Whereas Facebookers can poke you.

With constant updates on what other people are doing, you feel there's a sense of energy and continuity that's missing from a blog (unless you have a good commenting system in place and a large, responsive community responding to you).

I had linked from Facebook to this page - until I looked at it again and realised how lame it was. :) You neve know, perhaps it will prompt me to restart my blog cabin posts after all...

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Hey Again

Not much to say except to note that once again the Blog Cabin has been stale for a looong time.

Also, noticed the other day that a Google Image Search turns up a number of places where my NWN portraits can be found... occasionally in nicer-presented formats than here. Ho hum. Still, the original is best. :)

Monday, December 19, 2005

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

The Aeroplanes

This Is My Love was the first iTunes download I ever got - a freebie Single of the Week. And it was great.

Now the group that made it, Liverpool's The Aeroplanes, have signed with a record company and have their own website up and running. They also have an EP with three new songs on (I like the slower ones best), and to top it all, they're playing a gig in Brighton at The Hanbury Ballroom on the 27th of this month. Who wants to come?