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OK, so a few people have asked about the tech setup, so this is how it all works.

WARNING! The following blog entry may contain scenes, depictions and descriptions of graphic technical content not suitable for non-technical audiences. Prolonged exposure may cause seizures. Viewer discretion is advised.

I’m using Wordpress 1.2 for the server. It is a php and mySQL based open source, open standards and free blogging system which I particularly like because it is fully standards compliant (XHTML even), very extensible, has rss everywhere for feeds (stories, comments etc.) and completely divorces presentation from data through the use of Cascading Style Sheets for the interface (so redesigning the site look and feel, I can just change it via css. No muss. No fuss.).

This post didn’t make the cut for the blog reboot in terms of content, but had some historical significance, so the placeholder is here.

Basically, this was the start of moving to something relatively fixed and online rather than something meant to replace emailed updates from my 1999 round-the-world exodus and other itinerant wanderings.

The blog has been around for more than 13 years in various forms, but was originally dubbed Across Weirdish Wild Space from Dr. Seuss’s Oh, the Places You Will Go .