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Sunday January 14, 2007

I am so looking forward to that

The flavour of the day was industry. Graham worked hard to finish up in the kitchen, all but the finishing touches he'll apply over the next week or so. Dolly worked hard to keep us working hard at our tasks while she slept. Even I was working hard, to bring the January journal entries over to the new blog and to adjust the appearance of it so as to make it a bit more like home. There's more to be done but I need to switch on the CSS editing feature for that and I want to be sure about the future before I embark on that perilous journey.

The keynote of the day for Graham was the installation of a 20th century classic lamp over the dining table in the kitchen. This lamp, sold as a 'Falcon', was manufactured by Fog & Morup in Denmark in 1972 and figured in architectural designs all over the place.

Even now you'll find pictures of it in those horrendously expensive coffee table books some people like to mortgage themselves to acquire. Graham had to pay a fairly large sum for it but he was happy to do so, especially when I pointed out that it cost less than a typical coffee table book of that kind. Like Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers', why pay a fortune for a picture when you can buy a bunch of the things for a couple of quid. Well, not really, but I'm sure you get my meaning.

There were two keynotes for me. First was the opening up of the blog and its favourable reception. I like it, too. Second was the moment, at about eight this evening, when Graham declared the kitchen done. He even let me do a quick video movie of it:

 
Welcome to our new kitchen

I had to use Windows Movie Maker to render it for the web; I have a brand new copy of 'Adobe Premiere Elements' ready to install, along with a copy of the 'for Dummies' book, but time is fleeting just now.

And it was then that a bonus keynote came along. I had put the movie up on YouTube in readiness for today's standard journal entry, and was sitting back wondering what people would think of it when I came to the sudden realization that with a blog, you don't have to wait. Just bung it up with a few covering words, and bob's yer uncle. So, even before formatting this entry for the journal I know that the video is going to be kindly received.

I like this.

There has been a flurry of concern since I wrote yesterday that I was contemplating the dropping of the archives. Okay. I give in. I shall find a way of keeping them hooked up. There's a vast pool of expertise in the forums over at wordpress.com, and elsewhere in the wordpress community and I wouldn't mind betting next week's pocket money that someone has had the same problem, and solved it. So soon as I have my feet securely under the wordpress table I shall ask around. I have until the end of May to get it sorted.

There are many things to be resolved before, during and after the migration. I shall apply myself diligently to them all and before I know it the job will be done, Spring will have arrived—the real one—, and I'll be able to settle in to a new, html- and ftp-less world and enjoy the season. I am so looking forward to that.

Readers' note:  The Haloscan comments are still acting up so I've dropped 'em. The comments feature on the mirror blog works fine.

You may also wish to note that I have decided to cut-over to the blog version somewhere around the end of January. I'll let you know if there will be a need to change your bookmarks; maybe there will, maybe there won't.