Filklore Posts

April 2, 2009
I played about with the LiveJournal cross-poster last night, but it got late, and I’ve only just tested it out properly. To my surprise it all seems to work.

With an addition of some CSS to my LJ template, my images are now appearing as they do on WordPress, with correct alignment, and margins etc. This was the main reason for my decision to make new LJ posts temporarily private – to give me time to check and correct the formatting.

April 1, 2009
It looks like I have run into a minor problem with how my Wordpress blog is being forwarded to LiveJournal. This seems to have resulted from a change I made so that the posts on LJ are initially private until I can verify they look ok. It immediately went back and made all of my Wordpress-forwarded entries private.

Normal service will be resumed when I get a chance to look at it. Meanwhile the Wordpress version of the blog is still full steam ahead (and looks a lot better) at http://www.filklore.com/

March 31, 2009
It’s been a while since I posted here – a case of being too busy doing things to sit and write about them. I’ve been bringing my garden back into shape for Spring – a little late, but never mind.

This is how my garden looked in 2007, when I first started this project:

March 13, 2009
Some Say I Got Devil – Melanie Safka

Came across this today on last.fm, asĀ  a semi-random connection to the Janis Ian songs I was listening to. I remember hearing this when it first came out as the B-side to Melanie’s “Brand New Key” and being much more impressed with it than the A-side.

March 13, 2009
Well, not so much a new toy, rather an new copy of an old one.

On my 21st birthday, oh so many years ago (OK, if you insist – 1980), my parents bought me a new guitar. I had been learning on a second-hand Yamaha classical (which I still have) but wanted a steel-string for the kind of stuff I was playing.

March 13, 2009
March 13, 2009
Just got back from a terrific folk circle at the George Hotel, Leadenham. Tim and Annie had mentioned it to me, and they were there, as well as Tim’s parents and his sister. A good turnout, about a dozen or so performers, and some listeners.

I only got the word earlier this week, so I hadn’t prepared anything folky for tonight. However, I thought there were some songs in my repertoire that I could get away with. Imagine my horror (and Annie’s amazement) when I managed to dry up on the words to “The Boy In The Room”, not once but twice! (I gave up in the end, and sang something else) Fortunately, I wasn’t the only one forgetting words, and it was a nice layback evening, with everbody having fun.

March 9, 2009
I played an interesting game on Saturday, called Android. The game is based in a futuristic world, with distinctly cyberpunk overtones. I felt we should be playing it while listening to the theme from Bladerunner. It involves a murder, and the players are supposed to be finding out who the killer is, but it is much more than that, with politics and corruption involved.

For a first play, it was a bit of a disaster. The events are supposed to take place over a two week period, with 6 days of each week (I suppose even Cyborgs get Sunday off) representing the 12 turns. The game is supposed to take 2-4 hours. I was expecting a bit longer, as we were all new to the game, and we were playing with the maximum 5 players. Even so, after 3 hours, we were only just playing the 4th day of our first week, so I suggested we finished at the end of that week, which we did, about an hour later.

March 9, 2009
I haven’t posted anything to the blog for a couple of weeks. This is because I’ve been taking my website apart, in order to rebuild it.

I will post more about it later, but the short version is this. I have moved my main blog (as hosted on my own domain) from Blogger to Wordpress. With a few plugins, and some adapting of some of the code to my own requirements, not only can I post on my main blog, and see the posts appear immediately on LiveJournal, but I can import comments back from LiveJournal onto my main blog, essentially consolidating the two.

February 25, 2009
I just watched the new Law and Order UK, recorded from last night.

I am fan of the original US show, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. I was less enamored with some of the later spin-offs, but was curious how the UK show would be.

Unfortunately, I was distracted throughout by the actor’s accents – cheerful London chappies, almost verging on fake cockney, for the police, while the chief lawyer is as plummy as they come. Pure stereotypes, and clearly aimed at a possible American market.

February 24, 2009
February 23, 2009
Since January, my blog, hosted at Blogger, has been mirrored to this LiveJournal account. The mirroring process has worked without a hitch, but I’ve become dissatisfied that although the articles on both sites are the same, I haven’t found a way to do the same for any comments made.