November 20, 2005

Testing a date thingy

Estonia has cheap beer, Paxman says. I saw him once, In London. He was carrying a bunch of books. It was almost too good to be true.

Posted by Nicklas at 10:51 PM

November 15, 2003

Anniversary

Eljestwhere is one today.

How time flies. How little I have to say about this celebrious event.
How I wish my seized up eye would recover from it’s flu-induced state of clogged-up uselessness and start serving me properly again, so that I could start thinking about anything else.

(And yes, of course I worry that I, like Laura Ingalls sister, will end up blind in a few weeks)

Posted by Nicklas at 04:42 PM

November 05, 2003

Comment Spam

A lot of people have been moaning about comment spam lately.
I figured that since I wasn’t getting any, these pages were too obscure, unread and unlinked-to to be of interest to any penile enlargement vendor, but the dozen comments received this morning proved me wrong.

My theory - that the more spam you got, the more popular you were - seem to have crumbled. Eljestwhere’s popularity hasn’t changed - but now it’s drowning in comments about the benefits of Penis Pills.

A quick install of MT-Blacklist and the banning of some particularly notorious IP addresses seems to have calmed things down a little.
Back to obscure normality for now.

Posted by Nicklas at 01:31 PM

November 03, 2003

one hundred pictures

The moblog celebrates its 100’th picture today - to celebrate we’re sporting a new, more tiled style over at the archive page. And what better motif to celebrate than a snap of the harris tweed.

Posted by Nicklas at 11:46 PM

September 23, 2003

Use a suggestive headline, see your site traffic double.

I’m lazy about checking site statistics, but occasionally I would log in to my control panel and see what brings people (other than my mother) to the site.

Curiously, it seems like an entry entitled “Hogtied” gets me an awful lot of traffic.

I would imagine that a vast majority of people finding the site by searching the web for the term “Hogtied” would be terribly disappointed at the lack of images of intricately bound female bodies in a state of undress, and leave immediately, trousers buttons still undone.

If you are one of those people, This is where you should be looking. You might learn something.

Posted by Nicklas at 10:56 PM

July 27, 2003

Pictures Daily

A new feature at eljestwhere:
Pictures from my mobile phone, posted at irregular intervals, appearing towards the bottom of the right column.
Enjoy.

Posted by Nicklas at 11:05 PM

May 23, 2003

Now available in Safari

I really don’t know if it was me or the browser, but for as long as I can remember Eljestwhere hasn’t worked well in Safari.

The main “container” that but the black 1 pixel borders around the content was showing up like a small black smudge in the top corner of the apple browser.
Unsightly and annoying, like that unscratchable itch, eljestwhere was playing nice with Camino, IE 5 and 6, and every browser under the sun apart from Safari.

So I had to go away and sit in a forest for a few days and contemplate.
Then I redesigned the styleshhet slightly, and lo.
it displays beautifully.

Now I can go back to filling the site with content, knowing that my borders are well defined.

Posted by Nicklas at 12:32 AM | TrackBack

May 19, 2003

Dirified and Ready to Go

Eljestwhere has been updated. All entries now have names that makes sense to humans.
Thanks to Nothing New - where you can pick up a step by step guide in how to make MT perform even smarter.
Now it’s time for bed.

Posted by Nicklas at 12:36 AM

April 29, 2003

Spring Cleaning (but we still suck in safari)

Finally I have taken the time to make a few changes to the main template for eljestwhere
I promised myself to do most of this stuff about three months ago, but you have to dwell on these things, or it would be too easy. And if it’s easy - what’s the point of doing it in the first place.

I have added the welcome blurb I lost on the train, archives by category, links to my current top three must-reads and I’ve also painstakingly crafted descriptions for all the categories, or at least most of them.

I still have to get my head around why Safari and my interpretation of the CSS box model don’t seem to want to play nice.

But that’s for another day. As sure as eggs are eggs.

Posted by Nicklas at 11:43 PM

April 14, 2003

Smut

An innocent thought about the advantages and disadvantages of riding a bike to work seem to have been picked up by a strange porn portal, spidering the web for dubious phrases.
Click below for a screenshot of the link to the “wet ass” entry

Posted by Nicklas at 11:37 PM

March 31, 2003

Spreading myself thin

There has been more activity over at the takete bookmarks section than anywhere else lately.

I am trying to create some sort of online bookmark repository, rather than a full fledged weblog. There are no comments for starters.
It seems like about as handy as adding pages to bookmark folders you’ll never look in again. Maybe it’ll catch on.

Posted by Nicklas at 11:56 PM

March 08, 2003

100

this post has an id of 100. This makes me think it might be cause for a centenary celebration. However, it’s only post no 94 if you’d go ahead and count them all.

Whatever the circumstances surrounding the missing six entries I feel that it’s imperative to fill entry no 100 with something extra special.

• A well written, witty, razor sharp, thought-provoking 100th post.
• Something that will be remembered and talked about across the world.
• Words that will make me incredibly popular with the Ladies and the Gents
• Something that someone might put on a T-shirt
• Or get tattooed in Gothic letters across their gang-bangin’ chest.

Posted by Nicklas at 12:26 AM

February 05, 2003

in the drawer

eljestwhere is as of today included in the sites drawer of NetNewsWire.

Up until this point there was really only one or two readers of the site, on a good day. Which was OK, because I am really only writing this for me, I keep telling myself.

Now, there are a big group of potential readers out there, likeminded to the extent that they all share a computer platform and have chosen to use a piece of software that shares information in a very specific way.

Maybe the chances of a random passer by making a connection and finding some of the ramblings interesting will increase when you've established that at least you have something in common, even if it is something as seemingly trivial as a preference to software applications?

Or maybe that's like saying that you would have a better chance of copping off with someone you meet in the supermarket if you've discover that they too are about to purchase a meat pie.

On a somewhat unrelated note,

it would be interesting to know how many of the readers of NetNewsWire also contribute to the content it pulls from various sites and weblogs rss feeds.

If NetNewsWire becomes as popular as it deserves, we have to look out for the perpetual feedback loop that takes shape when a group of people read and comment only on their own writings. It'll start to smell stale after just a few rounds.

Posted by Nicklas at 11:23 PM

January 22, 2003

11.59

this post might make it in today!

later: I try to live by the rules. It usually gets pretty tight, but I need to keep the obsessive element present in order to keep going. That's why the calendar still is on the first page; when all the days have a link, I feel satisfaction.
Quantity will be transformed into quality.

Posted by Nicklas at 11:59 PM

January 15, 2003

First Comment

Do you remember your first Comment?
I got mine today.

I have to check my logs and see if Eljestwhere is getting any traffic at all.
I'll report back with some statistics. I bet you can't wait until I share these with you, dear reader.

Posted by Nicklas at 11:58 PM | TrackBack

January 01, 2003

NetNewsWire Goes Pro

Holy Shmoly!

I'm posting this from the NetNewsWire Pro Weblog Editor.

It works!

Posted by Nicklas at 09:49 PM

December 22, 2002

On the train

If you can read this my experiment was successful. This was painstakenly written and posted using my trusty Palm. I'm going on Holiday. There will be no reporting for a few days. Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.

Posted by Nicklas at 11:07 AM

December 08, 2002

more strictness

This afternoon I finally got the eljestwhere layout out of photoshop where it's been sitting maturing like a good vintage port, and translated it into code.

There will most likely be a sort of launch tomorrow, as long as the css and html passes the aforementioned validation.

Posted by Nicklas at 10:52 PM

December 07, 2002

strict is good

I spent my lunch hour on Friday converting the front page of takete to strict xhtml.

When I finally got the approval from the W3C validator I felt like jumping up and down and doing a silly little dance, which in fact I did, to the bemusement of my co-workers who for some reason didn't share my enthusiasm.

It is hard to explain to the uninitiated why creating validating code would constitute a stepping stone to nirvana, damn, I don't even understand it myself.

Next step is getting eljestwhere as strict as a calvinist headmistress. Stay tuned.

Posted by Nicklas at 10:57 PM | Comments (1)

November 22, 2002

Going back over items. Like Superman flying really fast to turn back time

Many of the dozen or so posts that make up eljestwhere so far are halfbaked items that I always intended to go back over.

The Mariah Carey post of yesterday needs a rant about how I couldn't get inspired to either work nor play, the List of Rules needs beefed out. (Second rule is, the laws of Germany) etcetera.

Maybe one day I will get around to doing these things.

Until then, I leave you with an essay about homosexuality in the Simpsons and an Awesome Real Ninja Homepage

Posted by Nicklas at 11:45 PM

November 20, 2002

Redecorating

I decided to give up any decorative attempts for the time being. Mr T is moaning upstairs. he has a bad cold. There are more important things in life than stylesheets, as much as I hate to admit it.

Posted by Nicklas at 09:55 PM