Fyse November 7th, 2007
This new start manifests itself in several ways…
- New city
- New job (sort of)
- New look website!
- Renewed enthusiasm for blogging (hopefully)
So, to the first of these. I have relocated to the exotic climes of Bristol. My initial month-long investigations reveal that my new home varies in two primary ways from my old stomping ground. First it is considerably bigger, and second it is STEEP. Bristol appears to consist of one giant hill that somehow you are always climbing without ever reaching the top. Cycling is hard work, especially mounted on an antique bone-shaker more suited to the pancake-flat fenlands of Cambridgeshire.
I’ve moved to Bristol in order to start a PhD, which is very exciting and almost makes it seem as though I have long-term plans and career prospects (providing I still want to continue in research after four years of this). I don’t suppose there’s much risk of getting dooced while still a student, but even though I’m (reasonably) anonymous I probably wont blog about work very often. At least, not in a specific or wildly derogatory way. Not that I have anything bad to say, of course. I’m going to stop digging now.
D’you like the new look Floating Face? It’s a customised version of the FallSeason theme, and my modifcations basically consist of making it look less awesome and more rubbish. I’ll sort things out properly one of these fine months, but in the meantime posting photos is neater (which I plan to do much more of) and I’ve removed the sidebar (which was just a waste of space for me). There is also now an RSS feed, which will hopefully prove useful for some of you.
As for the increased enthusiasm for blogging, I really hope to get back into updating this site regularly. I’m not ready to give it up, despite being a bit of a lazy sod of late. Well, for quite a while actually. Perhaps the key to this might be in expanding my readership, so I’m toying with the idea of advertising it widely to all my real-life friends, rather than just the very few who currently visit. First I need to get some new content for these supposed new readers to peruse. I’m taking a LOT of photos these days, so at the very least you can expect to see more of those, and hopefully some contributions from the Floating Face himself.
The take-home message from this post is that I am still here, and to watch this space.
Fyse June 12th, 2007
I sincerely hope none of you fine people are using Internet Explorer to view this site, as it looks perfectly ghastly at the moment. With IE6 the photos are all over the place due to a lack of support for ‘max-width’, and as for IE7, lord alone knows what’s going on with the comment link section. I’ll get round to fixing it soon. Maybe.
Under Firefox and Safari, however, things look passable.
The Floating Face April 25th, 2007
Fyse is having a few website issues at the moment. These might have something to do with him failing to renew his domain name. It expires in four days, and he is in the process of transferring to a new company. This is not easy to do in such a short space of time. There is hence a reasonable chance the Floating Face will disappear shortly. Fyse sincerely hopes this absence will be temporary, and preferably short lived.
Fyse April 4th, 2007
Just a warning that I’ve upgraded blogging software but haven’t yet had time to iron out template issues. Things may look a tad dodgy for a while, but I’ll get everything fixed up right nice in no time. Might do a full redesign too. Wont that be a treat? Yes. Yes it will.
Fyse January 23rd, 2007
I’m not sure it’s worth trying to justify myself, however. For one reason and another I just haven’t found myself blogging of late, but this will change. Armed with my beautiful new MacBook I shall sort myself out and begin to update you all with tales from my life. This has been a mere blip and not, repeat not, the end of the Floating Face. I don’t deserve to still have any readers but if anyone out there is still checking back once in a while, I apologise.
I shall bring you up to date with my life. I started my job last October, as planned, and have since been setting the world of speech perception alight with my scintillating insight and intuition. I am currently investigating options for PhDs starting later in the year, and am beginning to come to the conclusion that academia might be a viable and desirable career. I am very much enjoying not being a student anymore, particularly the money (which enables me to buy shiny new laptops) and the fact that my evenings and weekends are my own (which enables me to go out probably more than I was before). I am also playing yet another grumpy old man in a musical, this time ‘Oklahoma!’.
I spent Christmas in Devon with family, where I ate a horrific quantity of food. I then went to Edinburgh for New Year, where I had a great time despite the world famous Hogmanay Street Party being canceled due to gale force winds. (Apparently there were portable toilets bouncing down the streets. Can’t imagine why they thought that unsafe.) It was great to be back in Edinburgh, having been up there for the festival 18 months ago, even if the weather was borderline hurricane.
Living in a house is treating me very well, particularly the novelty of having a TV again. This might have something to do with my lack of blogging of late, actually. I of am of course not watching the current series of Celebrity Big Brother. We have a large living room, a kitchen with an aga and a huge garden with apple trees. We also have a slightly scary landlady who wrote an inventory including such gems as ‘one curtain rail, 37 curtain hooks’, ‘ceiling - wallpapered’ and ‘one driveway (tarmac)’. Clearly worried she’d come round one day to find we had laid gravel.
I think that’ll have to do for now. Must sleep. Brace yourself for more soon…
The Floating Face August 30th, 2006
So, Fyse is not always the most organised of fellows. Not much to argue about there, it’s a well established fact. Somehow it slipped his mind that his free webhosting with the the SRCF expires this summer, and that at any moment his website might disappear in a puff of smoke. While he was planning to sort out new hosting before leaving for three weeks in Cornwall, he may not have quite got round to it.
Therefore, if The Floating Face is suddenly not around for a while, do not panic. He will return some time soon after the 25th of September, when he is back in Cambridge and has a few spare hours to mess about in front of a computer. Right now he has a hundred things to sort before he can go to sleep, and leaves early tomorrow for a mahoosive drive. He may find time for the occasional post while away, but in the meantime he suggests you check out some of the bloggers linked from his sidebar. Except that if the site goes down the link list will no longer be there. In which case he hopes you enjoy all the bitchin’ error messages the server sends your way…
Fyse August 22nd, 2006
People really do type the most bizarre things into Google…
- photoblog taking my temperature
- you have such a february face
- inflatable man shape flailing arms
- i was a human guinea pig
It’s a pathetic excuse for a post, but at least it’s something, eh? You now know I’m not dead. Silver lining and all that…
Fyse July 30th, 2006
It’s an entry about blogging itself. A meta-post, if you will. It marks two years of Fyse’s Floating Face, and in terms of productivity it comes at something of a low point.
Since my 1st Blogday I have written 15,888 words in 51 posts, and have received 126 comments containing 4,343 words (about half of which were probably mine). The latter half of the year has seen a deliberate change in style, from day-to-day accounts of my activities to waffling rambles on particular topics. Anything from train travel to nubile Swedes, a family Christmas Dinner to momentary delusions of omnipotence. Entries weren’t particularly frequent but the future of the Floating Face looked good, with posts more fun to write and hopefully also to read.
Then my finals loomed on the horizon, and the frequency of updates dropped even further. Lately I’ve been managing barely one a month, and this is a dangerous state of affairs. It’s not all Cate Blanchett’s fault however, and I must shoulder a majority of the blame. The Floating Face is still important to me, and I fully intend to continue long into the future. My blogging mojo will return soon and I hugely appreciate those that are still visiting regularly. I can’t guarantee posts featuring Hollywood film stars, but fame isn’t everything, right? Exactly…
Fyse November 29th, 2005
I feel like I’ve been under attack for the past hour, with a positive deluge of comment spam. Coming at the rate of several each minute, I’ve barely been able to delete them faster than they’ve arrived. I’d been getting occasional problems, but never enough to quite get round to installing any counter measures. Tonight certainly booted me into action. After a quick look at the options, I went for the easily installed Bad Behavior. (It hurt me to type that spelling, even though it is the actual name.) I’ve seen some other sites using random numbers as pictures, which have to be typed in to verify a human rather than a script, but they were far more complicated to install. I’ll see how I get on with this one first.
There is a very remote possibility that some of you virtuous and honest commentors will be blocked by the software, in which case you’ll get an error page. If this happens, drop me an email and I’ll try to sort it out.
Fyse November 24th, 2005
For ages I’ve been wanting to sort myself a brand spanking new photo blog, but haven’t found the time to spend the requisite hours. I want a PHP/SQL based blog on a subdomain of floatingface, but it’ll take me too long to set up. For now, utilising my swanky new 2MP camera phone, I’ll resume use of my textamerica blog. There’s a couple of new photos to check out now, and keep an eye on the sidebar thumbnail for further shots!
