OK, so here’s your chance to be me for an evening. I have two tickets to the last-ever Belleruche gig, at XOYO on the 13th of November. Unfortunately, I will be in Dubai. I’m out fifty quid. The successful candidate, having passed the programming test, quiz set by the readers of Jamie Kenny’s blog, simulator…
Read More An opportunity that may never come againIt has come to my attention that this blog has been a bit grumpy lately.
Read More Noted.Big fat intelligence politics post up at the Fistful.
Read More Post alertTYR’s 10th blogday was the 10th of June. My birthday is this week. Is anyone interested in a pint this weekend?
Read More 10 years of TYR, 33 of YRThings I’d like to post in the near future: A Critique of Pure Reason, James Reason – if there was nearly a run on Barclays yesterday, would we know? Perhaps some more on the pathological firm – this is dependent on me working out whether the rest is worth writing. Celebrating the genius of William…
Read More Blogcast: a self-binding admin noticeOur long national nightmare of bifurcation is over! Thanks to this guy for fixing the WordPress Blogger importer, the Ranter is moving. Our new home is here – you’re looking at it. Comments please in the new blog. I’d like to recommend Suffusion, not so much a WP theme as an HTML5-based design toolkit. To-do…
Read More Admin: The move is here, at lastSo I couldn’t just drop the OAuth library into the plugins directory because I didn’t have sudo rights there, so I wgot and zipped it and uploaded it as a plugin via the web interface and changed the include to point there. And now the end of the bifurcation era may be in sight. Not…
Read More slightly less lazywebA question, 200 or so readers. How many of you also follow the twitter feed?
Read More AdminReally. Seven months. Six updates including a major version. Still no fucking blogger import into WordPress. Why is this being such a fucking pain? Does anyone know if Movabletype (or whatever) has a working importer? Note that solutions that involve downloading the complete TYR Classic and then re-uploading it over home “Very” ADSL are not…
Read More pointless whiningOK, so there’s a month to go before del.icio.us gets sold and anyone who hasn’t agreed to the new Ts & Cs gets zapped. I asked this on Quora but so far haven’t had a useful reply. I know the Ts & Cs are substantially different, but is there anything in them that should dissuade…
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