Thanks to my trusty filial Webmeister-in-Chief, Website and Blog Manager, Ephems has had another major makeover. It’s now even more closely integrated with its parent website and the very useful ‘Search’ facility at the top of each page has been restored to health, now for the first time searching the whole of the website and [...]
A new website for students’ essays on international affairs and for comments by more established writers is a useful new resource [More >>>]
Owen the blogger is out of retirement: http://www.owen.org/blog/ [More >>>]
Test post — do not read
‘Contact’ facility (for messages to me from this website) now works again after a long time out of order, but ’search’ still awaiting a fix [More >>>]
Faithful visitors to my website (http://www.barder.com/), host to this blog, will have noticed that it seems to have expired, although some of its individual pages are still breathing and available, e.g. via links to them from earlier blog posts. I have appealed for First Aid to my web guru, who however is currently somewhat preoccupied with packing up for three years’ hard labour in Ethiopia, so it may be a little while before normal service is restored, if ever.
Meanwhile, as you’ll have gathered if you can read this, Ephems continues to function. I just hope it isn’t about to succumb to the same life-threatening condition as its aged website parent — although if it does, that might actually allow me enough time to read one or two of the books that continue to pile up beside my bed, untouched by human hand. *Books!* — remember them?
Anyway, in case you fancy browsing again among the infinite riches of http://www.barder.com/, keep clicking away on the link, and who knows? maybe some day it will pop up again as if nothing had happened.
Today I transfer to a new computer, with all the ghastly and time-consuming business of installing dozens of programs from CDs and the web, transferring thousands of data files from CDs, and the rest of it. So there’ll be a (no doubt welcome) period of silence on my part, as Attlee requested of Laski.
Cartoon from the FT magazine.
Oliver Kamm’s article (Guardian 18 Aug 06) makes the right points on Lebanon, however controversially. First post in Windows Live Writer [More >>>]
Commercial interests in the US are posing a genuine threat to the freedom of the internet by seeking control over all Web content. Act now in at least one of several suggested ways to avert the danger [More >>>]
