Leasey’s been complaining [no, don’t roll your eyes, there’s more to this story] that PooterGeek has been getting too political lately and it’s boring her. “Boring”? You kids have no idea.

I feel a little bit like the landlord of a tiny village pub staring at a city newcomer by doing this, but we have a new contributor here at PooterGeek, that is we have one who hasn’t been drawn to join the growing community over at the Naked Harry Potter page. Dakujem thinks he knows […]

Sorry for the absence. I’ve been very, very busy. More ‘Blogging soon.

As a result of extensive user consultation the PooterGeek Steering Committee has settled on this new executive blue look. Apparently the purple was pretty hard on the eyes. (It also had the effect of making visitors think their monitor was on the blink.) Don’t you just hate the way the word “executive” is used as […]

PooterGeekers on the new look: so far, one vote in favour (from Maoi) and one vote against (from Leasey).

PooterGeek now uses Movable Type 1.65 and even works in crummy old Netscape 4.x Web browsers for the first time ever!

PooterGeek is more-or-less back in action now. I’m fairly happy with the layout, but I think I might play around with the colour scheme over the next few days. Your comments on the new design are welcome. The cartoon pie-chart at the top of this Guardian article sums the whole ‘Blogging scene accurately.

There won’t be any proper ‘Blogging over the next few days because I am going to try to overhaul the PooterGeek site. Sorry!

Leasey only spotted one mistake this morning! But she didn’t spot my misspelling “Moroccan”. Despite the date, the last PooterGeek entry was mainly written on the evening of the 8th of December. For those who care about such things, the software that runs this ‘Blog, Movable Type, attaches a time-stamp the first time I save […]

Apologies for the absences of PooterGeek (and my other sites) today. Something was awry with a server at my usually wonderful hosts UKShells.

This used to be today’s page of PooterGeek, Damian Counsell’s Web journal. It isn’t now, but might be again in about a year’s time (2005?). Please feel free to browse the archives.

Yesterday I transferred from MPhil to PhD status at the Institute of Cancer Research, where I have been registered as a part-time PhD student since Michael Jackson was black. (I would love to be able to tell the story of my viva, but can’t.) One mad year of frenzied experimenting and writing from today I […]

I’m trying hard not to feel threatened as I absorb the news that PooterGeek’s readers’ comments have become more interesting than my postings. Before you guys start getting cocky, just remember who pays for the bandwidth around here.

Not surprisingly, my flurry of postings in the small hours contained lots of typos. I think they’re all fixed now. Thanks to Casual Savant for spotting a couple—but not all of them, smartypants.

Thank you, PooterGeek readers, for your response to yesterday’s ‘Blog entry. I’m genuinely touched. I think we can call it three votes for this page to continue its tradition of cranky, queenie, venting. Four, if I count the off-board response which simply quoted Judith’s post, punctuated with the repeated incantation “exactly“. Ironically I have a […]

Yesterday evening I had an interesting debate with Wiqqi. He made some valid criticisms of PooterGeek. He feels that this ‘Blog is “incredibly camp”. Guilty as charged, m’lud. He says that, instead of gentle dissection of my opponents’ views, I tend to go for “intellectual bludgeoning”. It’s a fair cop, guv’nor. He also thinks I […]

Remember this experiment in search-engine-ology? PooterGeek is already 6th highest Google hit on the entire planet for the phrase “naked Harry Potter” and for the phrase “Charlotte Church nude“. The first hit recorded hit in the logs from someone searching for “Charlotte Church nude” was last weekend—could have been a PooterGeek reader, though.

This 'Blog is a year old today. Yes, I know I was late to that particular party, but don't sneer: I was on the Web when it was competing with Gopher; my dotcom had dotgone before most people had heard of one; and my Slashdot user number has only four digits. So I suppose it's […]

Due to a technical error (technically I'm a plonker) I posted an earlier version of yesterday's entry, which missed out crucial words. I'll fix the entry for 19Mar03 this weekend too.