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General Waffle
Transition
Just to let you know, from now on I plan to post all of my blog entries over at Platform27. This is certainly no anti-20Six rant (in fact I've been impressed with recent updates), it's just that I can't blog on 20Six from work any more, whereas I still can on P27. Here's a spangly animated thingy showing my most recent posts over there so you can keep an eye on what I'm up to... and a handy subscribe button for you if you want to add it to your RSS aggregator. Catch you later Bill & Ted! 
 
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Black. BLAAACK
[crams a quick blog in before work notices that 20Six is un-blocked again] Look! Spider-Man 3 Trailer! 
- Sandman! [check]
- Green Goblin (HobGoblin?) [check]
- Alien Goo! [check]
- Black Suit! [check]
What do you mean we have to wait nearly another year??? GAH! PS I hear there will be Venom too... but I really hope they're just setting him up this time around so that he can have the whole of 4 to himself. Three super-villains in one film would be just too much...
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One good thing about this new platform...
You can really jazz up your blog design. Sort of like this. OK it's not perfect, I can't seem to reduce the size of the links, or increase the headings for the categories. And my three column layout wouldn't display right (even though the numbers all added up right in my table design) , so I'm back to 2 columns again. Still, it looks nice and clean, and my hand drawn icons give it a personal touch... I've been faffing around with this for 4 hours, and now it's 1am... Gnnn... Good night!
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Bargain of the decade?
About 6 months ago we ditched Sky and got a Freeview box... Well our finances should ease up slightly in a month or so, so we were thinking about getting back on the Sky bandwagon... maybe even going the whole hog and getting a spangly new HD box. Anyway, last week, Sky sent us a '6 months half price come back to Sky' offer, which runs out at the end of the month, and today they followed it up with a phone call. They went through tempting offer after tempting offer, at one point even offering us a Sky+ box for £49 and still having 6 months half price.
After each offer, I told them I'd talk it over with MrsK and ring them back. "I just have this one final offer I have to tell you about" she said earnestly... "no-one ever believes me when I offer it them" "As a special with the the World Cup coming up, how about the Sky Family Pack, and the Sports channels, but no movies, for 66 pence for two months" "66 pence? Really? Ah, go on then." 
She then tells me that our account is actually in credit by £4.26 (which they'd never told us about before), so we're not actually having to pay a thing!
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[Irony mode on] - This new platform is fantastic! [Irony mode off]
So here we are with the new patform...
(1) All my links to 20Six images are busted. I'm just glad I started using Zoto recently for all my pictures. I am REALLY not looking forward to wading through over 1000 entries to try and fix them all. Given that the changeover has been delayed for so long, you'd have thought they'd have managed to come up with a way of converting the image links... This is a real killer.
(2) Half my favourites disappeared, or jumbled up. Still, I'd saved them in an entry, and have put them in my 'Sidebar Heading' in the layout -> Pro section, then deleted the actual links that 20Six carried over, so that's not really the end of the world...
(3) I managed to run Bubb's backup tool before the upgrade, so I at least have a backup of the old blog... but can't do anything with it yet.
(4) I'm loving the smatterings of German and French around this thoroughly translated place. I mean, they've only had 6 months...
(5) Wait a moment - Raw HTML entry posting? What the...*
(6) I particularly like the way my blog keeps disappearing, then reappearing again. I've had 10 blog not founds already this morning... and then it won't let me log back on. Super.
(7) I can't imagine I'll be staying around here for very long, particularly seeing as all the community based aspects that made 20Six so great, have... well... gone (hello? COMMENT TRACKING? Good grief...).
(8) Platform27 here we come...
...sigh... * Oh wait, I just found the non-HTML entry editor. It's in Your Data -> Javascript editor need's ticking...
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Farewell 'old' 20Six...
... it's been nice 'n' all that.
I'm trying not to bee TOO pessimistic, but I'm really not looking forward to this new platform, what with losing comment tracking, and RSS feeds and whatnot. 20Six was a nice self-contained community-ma-flip... and it would be a shame to lose all of that. And I really don't want to have to re-do all my old picture links... But there's no use crying over the gate after the gift horse has counted all it's eggs in the bush. Or something.
But on the positive side, if we have a new stable base platform, that is the same across all the 20Sixes across Europe, then they can then hopefully start to add back in some of the features we're losing. Of course, that raises the point that we already had these features across all of 20Six before they decided to switch platforms, but that's another thing entirely.
"Just in case", I've done a full backup of my blog today using Bubb's wondrous backup tool...
So all that's left for me to do here, before blogs start crashing out of the night sky, is to post all of my current Favourites and Links... You know, just so's I can pick em up later.
Take care fellow bloggers, it's been good here hasn't it...
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