Happy Birthday Bloggydiarywotsit!
I started keeping an online diary (after many years of doing it on paper) in 2003, twenty years ago this week. In the early days, I used an archaic little M****soft program(me) called FRONT PAGE EXPRESS to compose my thoughts, and uploaded them to the free dial-up account I was using at the time. Later, when broadband came along, and I'd learned a bit of HTML along the way(!), things got a tad more fancy.
For many years, my website was hosted by an American company called COFFEECUP, who offered a free 'guest' service, including free versions of both their HTML editor and FTP programs. But last year, they stopped supporting those, and expected users to purchase the full-price versions. None of their own software will work on anything except WINDOZE. So I found myself locked out of being able to access my own files. I went OFFLINE: I saved a version of the full archive site on my own harddrive, but it's no longer visible to the public (I'm not sure if anyone ever looked at it, in any case!).
From April of this year, I started using the BLOGGER site to post weekly entries, but anything before then is only available to me. The dozens of pages that were on Coffeecup have now gone. But it's a fresh start...
Never mind... I can still draw on my hidden archive, to post occasional HISTORICAL NUGGETS on the 'public' pages. F'rinstance, here was the FIRST EVER entry from that original bloggitydiarythingy from TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Week from Monday 8th September 2003
This page appears courtesy of The Free Association ... Some of you might remember the diaries I kept during my most Obsessive/Compulsive period - meticulously annotated, micron-high handwritten lists of every conversation, every joke, every happenstance and, sadly, every TV programme I encountered in my day-to-day existence. This will not, I hope, be one of those.
This weekend past, I have been somewhat tired and emotional due to what I've come to call one of my "myalgic downturns", so I've mainly been vegging out in front of the video, catching up on some of the week's film treats (I finally got to see "The Sixth Sense" all the way through!) and dipping into the Led Zeppelin DVD set - Yes! The version of "Kashmir" at Knebworth really was as good as I remembered it! Was it really twenty-four summers ago? Thinks: the people who have been writing the reviews in the glossymags are a generation too young to have seen Zeppelin for real...
Ahh! I found my very own copy of W.H. Davies' "Autobiography Of A Super-Tramp" in a box a-bound for the WI jumble sale, which was nice...
I've just been listening to last night's "Mixing It" and, as usual, there were at least a couple of tracks which prompted the response "Bloody hell, I could do that! Come to think of it, we HAVE done that!"... Which is why I've just finished compiling a seedy's-worth of freely improvised stuff that Shelfy and I created in previous decades, with the express purpose of sending it to the "Mixing It" crew (Yo! Radio Three Posse In The House!). The seedy is entitled "The Futility Clinic": Shelfy will have received his copy by now and SHOULD be writing a press release to go with it, at this very moment...
This Week's Listening Habits: I find I am unable to wrench away from my deck the recording of LOVE with ARTHUR LEE at this year's Glastonbury shindig - sublime! I got a copy of the MIYAZAWA KAZUFUMI "Deeper Than Oceans" seedy that I had been seeking - a unique blend of Okinawan and Brazilian flavours, with all the quirkiness that both those countries' popcultures have to offer! Sort Of A Downside: the seedy is padded out with the usual array of pointless 'remixes' that always seem to turn up on 'world' music discs these days, while adding nothing to the enjoyment (or programming) of the disc whatsoever.
PRESENT DAY ME: Needless to say, once I'd done the CUT'n'PASTE thing, that aforementioned archaic version of HTML that FP EXPRESS generated - including strange tags that HTML5 no longer recognises and excessive carriage-returns - needed some additional fixing for the modern times! And actually, I just listened to "Deeper Than Oceans", and while very much 'OF THEIR TIME', the 'bonus' remixes are rather superb...
For many years, my website was hosted by an American company called COFFEECUP, who offered a free 'guest' service, including free versions of both their HTML editor and FTP programs. But last year, they stopped supporting those, and expected users to purchase the full-price versions. None of their own software will work on anything except WINDOZE. So I found myself locked out of being able to access my own files. I went OFFLINE: I saved a version of the full archive site on my own harddrive, but it's no longer visible to the public (I'm not sure if anyone ever looked at it, in any case!).
From April of this year, I started using the BLOGGER site to post weekly entries, but anything before then is only available to me. The dozens of pages that were on Coffeecup have now gone. But it's a fresh start...
Never mind... I can still draw on my hidden archive, to post occasional HISTORICAL NUGGETS on the 'public' pages. F'rinstance, here was the FIRST EVER entry from that original bloggitydiarythingy from TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Week from Monday 8th September 2003
This page appears courtesy of The Free Association ... Some of you might remember the diaries I kept during my most Obsessive/Compulsive period - meticulously annotated, micron-high handwritten lists of every conversation, every joke, every happenstance and, sadly, every TV programme I encountered in my day-to-day existence. This will not, I hope, be one of those.
This weekend past, I have been somewhat tired and emotional due to what I've come to call one of my "myalgic downturns", so I've mainly been vegging out in front of the video, catching up on some of the week's film treats (I finally got to see "The Sixth Sense" all the way through!) and dipping into the Led Zeppelin DVD set - Yes! The version of "Kashmir" at Knebworth really was as good as I remembered it! Was it really twenty-four summers ago? Thinks: the people who have been writing the reviews in the glossymags are a generation too young to have seen Zeppelin for real...
Ahh! I found my very own copy of W.H. Davies' "Autobiography Of A Super-Tramp" in a box a-bound for the WI jumble sale, which was nice...
I've just been listening to last night's "Mixing It" and, as usual, there were at least a couple of tracks which prompted the response "Bloody hell, I could do that! Come to think of it, we HAVE done that!"... Which is why I've just finished compiling a seedy's-worth of freely improvised stuff that Shelfy and I created in previous decades, with the express purpose of sending it to the "Mixing It" crew (Yo! Radio Three Posse In The House!). The seedy is entitled "The Futility Clinic": Shelfy will have received his copy by now and SHOULD be writing a press release to go with it, at this very moment...
This Week's Listening Habits: I find I am unable to wrench away from my deck the recording of LOVE with ARTHUR LEE at this year's Glastonbury shindig - sublime! I got a copy of the MIYAZAWA KAZUFUMI "Deeper Than Oceans" seedy that I had been seeking - a unique blend of Okinawan and Brazilian flavours, with all the quirkiness that both those countries' popcultures have to offer! Sort Of A Downside: the seedy is padded out with the usual array of pointless 'remixes' that always seem to turn up on 'world' music discs these days, while adding nothing to the enjoyment (or programming) of the disc whatsoever.
PRESENT DAY ME: Needless to say, once I'd done the CUT'n'PASTE thing, that aforementioned archaic version of HTML that FP EXPRESS generated - including strange tags that HTML5 no longer recognises and excessive carriage-returns - needed some additional fixing for the modern times! And actually, I just listened to "Deeper Than Oceans", and while very much 'OF THEIR TIME', the 'bonus' remixes are rather superb...
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