Lately, the number of unique visitors to PooterGeek has settled into the low hundreds. Unfortunately this increase in traffic necessitates small changes in the previous free-and-easy regime here. As part of this process (of improvement) I would like readers to take a moment to fill out the simple registration form below. All data will be […]

I'm back, but I won't be doing much 'Blogging because I'll be spending lots of time at a conference over the next two weeks.

I'm taking the weekend off from 'Blogging. Go out, people, and hug a stranger.

You should now be able to preview your comments before you submit them to PooterGeek and this 'Blog should now be compatible with the nifty Bloglines system for keeping track of new postings to Weblogs. Please tell me if you have any problems with any of PooterGeek's features. If I don't know about them I […]

Did I mention that I am the subject of the normblog profile today? [If you are new here, you might want to scroll down to 8Jul04, the last bit of real 'Blogging. I don't do that any more, now I'm a superstar. Popular recent posts include “On The Beneficial Effects Of Tea…“, “Decree Absolute“, and […]

I don't usually post pictures of myself in this 'Blog (apart from the passport-sized thing over there ->), but I am being interviewed at Normy's place today so it's ego time! [click for full-size] My friend Leasey took the photo last month in Eat in Cambridge. Eat is an excellent sandwich bar—with flattering lighting. I'd […]

Yesterday, my old PooterGeek pages were attacked by comment spammers. That brought down all of my Websites and probably some other peoples' too. I'm very, very sorry. As for the scum responsible: we're on your case. Get your beards trimmed ready for your court appearances. Things are slowly being fixed here. In the meantime I […]

It's 3am and I've finally got PooterGeek looking presentable under new software. I say a bleary “hello” to WordPress and begin a long, slow goodbye to Movable Type. And you lot probably won't notice a thing, except when it all goes wrong again.

I couldn't access PooterGeek, counsell.com etc. last night or this morning, and neither could a bunch of other people, I suspect—no email access either. There are about half-a-dozen things I want to post, but I'll be busy the rest of today, hence this lunchtime message. Come back later.

Everything around here was down again last night and this morning: no PooterGeek, no counsell.com, no loveandbentspoons.com, no email, no nuffink. Apologies to people who might have been trying to contact me lately. It's not my fault—I pay the rent on time. I have a backlog of improvements planned: I want to start a PooterGeek […]

Following on from this morning's database fallover, PooterGeek's backend is back. Expect more drivel some time in the next 24 hours.

It used to be sleepy around here (PooterGeek, that is). I could tinker with a ‘Blog entry a few times, publish it to the Web, tinker with it a bit more, and then, a couple of days later, somebody might wander by and read it. Now, people descend while I’m in the middle of correcting […]

Rupert Read visited this site today and politely pointed out that my statement in a previous entry that he was Balliol JCR President during my time at that college was bollocks (my word, not his). This entry is by way of apology to him and to all readers of this ‘Blog. He was right: as […]

Yesterday I had to adjust some PooterGeek content from earlier in the week—both original text of mine and a coment by an external poster—to avoid misunderstanding and potential legal action respectively. I used (with ironic intent) language in my original ‘Blog entry that was probably too strong and that might have provoked the problem. These […]

I was supposed to be out with a bunch of Genome Campus types, but, thanks the relaxed mores of the youth of today, I was only txted the co-ordinates of the rendezvous point when I had given up on the party and was wandering around Tesco’s, looking for the Parmesan. I’m now ‘Blogging as I […]

Usually I have to ‘Blog hurriedly in between other stuff. Today I’ve been at home pretty much all day so I’ve had plenty of time to post things properly to PooterGeek. My ineptitude has expanded to fill the time available to it. Somehow, every time I wander over to my keyboard to do so, I […]

Thanks to the readers who emailed words of comfort (and gentle mockery). I am a bit better now. Because I spent hours and hours wrapped up in bed I was able to get in early to work and stay until late today. Just goes to show: if you really want to be a macho workaholic, […]

I have a cold coming on so this link is a prediction as well as a survey result. By the way: send me some real email, tight-lipped ones. I haven’t had a proper message since Friday. Don’t you people love me any more? I can’t find all this time-wasting content on my own, you know.