Well, for better or worse the new site code is written and appears to be working. Also hopefully managed to salvage and port as much of the content as possible. Sophisticated it ain't, and there is some debate about whether it works at all on Internet Explorer. It should hopefully mean that its a bit easier to keep the site updated and the pages of reasonable size. I'll keep tweaking things, and see how it works out. Bug reports as ever are welcome. I've called the code Areopagitica after John Milton's essay on license-free publishing.
Its been a strange few weeks of disappointments and surprises. Actually managing to get this site done in the last couple of days of my unplanned and badly-scheduled (but much needed) holiday, has been a pleasant and unexpected surprise.
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.