Archive for April, 2008

A night at the Terminus

April 27th, 2008

I have a long history of weird people hitting on me at the Terminus – usually because I was waiting for Ruth and reading. Apparently this meant I was “smart”.

So much to Ruth’s amusement 30-something women would come talk to me. As they were usually slightly mentally unstable 30-something women it often made for bizarre and amusing conversations.

Now Ruth doesn’t work at the Termi anymore so I don’t often go. But last night we stopped in from a drink and ended up staying for a while.

Even though I wasn’t reading my pattern of weird women continued. A quite pretty young blond woman leaned over me and asked for a light – which I duly gave her. She then proceeded to introduce herself as “Hil”. In her first sentence I learnt “Hil” was short for Hilary. In her second sentence she indicated she was from Echuca. Okay so far so good. Normal thus far. But the third sentence:

“You know it’s really hard to find someone who wants to fuck me in the arse and really hurt me.”

She then proceeded to make it clear that if I could fulfill her requirements we could leave now. I pointed out Ruth and gave my apologies and she went back to her own table. Good to see I can still pull the interesting women…

Hello Drupal

April 15th, 2008

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So after many, many years (5 at least!) my blog is moving away from Expression Engine to Drupal. There are a number of reasons for this but briefly they are:

1. The “Book” content type. I am a writer and I am thinking my next book will be authored between a bunch of us online. Drupal offers the ability to do that and export the resulting content as DocBook. I had a look to see if EE could do this but I don’t have the time to develop something.

2. My preference is generally open source software – I sit on the executive council of Linux Australia – and I don’t see EE as truly FOSS. Drupal makes me feel intellectually more comfortable.

3. The ease of theme application – I don’t have to design or tweak HTML/CSS anymore. (well only a little)

Now I get the annoying feeling though that I will end up tweaking PHP in a few places but *shrugs* it’s all good learning. :)

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April 14th, 2008

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