The first time I read Charles Stross’ Rule 34, I wasn’t writing about why I read certain books. So, taking …
November 13, 2011
thingswithbits updates itself
I’ve never been so taken by my design website, in respect to design having been thrown into a free template, …
November 7, 2011
Was it something I said? (or, supernaut blocked in China)
I noticed a few weeks ago that traffic from China was low — single digits low instead of being in …
October 7, 2011
Daniel Schlusser — Ophelia
In the graben between late night and early morning, while scrabbling small amendments for something of Daniel Schlusser’s I hope …
October 7, 2011
Reading: Neal Stephenson — Reamde
There are five science-fiction writers — though this is a loose term, and none write in this genre exclusively — …
October 6, 2011
Steve Jobs
Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class …
May 30, 2011
supernaut updates supernaut
Last night I noticed the dilapidated state of my sidebar links. “Who uses them anyway?”, I thought, before answering myself …
April 25, 2011
multilingual goat witch
I’ve been adding video to francesdath.info the past few days, and also felt a compulsion to make the site multilingual …
April 12, 2011
生日快乐!!! happy 7th birthday supernaut! (nochmal vergessen…)
aaa!!! I forgot again! every year! Trotzdem … Schokolade! Kuchen! Viel Spaß und Krawall machen! supernaut? yes!
March 19, 2011
2011.touchandplay.org
This morning I launched the website for the 2011 Touch&Play Festival. Still a bit to do, and content is still …
March 8, 2011
goat snake witch dance theatre blackness
The last couple of days I’ve been working on a side-project, cleaning up my dance/performance/choreography website, francesdath.info. I decided a …
March 8, 2011
Flowplayer Playlists and WPAlchemy Meta Boxes
Last night I spent a bit of time working on francesdath.info, which I’ve been shifting into WordPress recently. I wanted …
February 10, 2011
Two Ways to Put Flowplayer into WordPress — Custom Fields & Shortcodes
I spent this afternoon working on a site for Daniel Schlusser that is hidden from view but close to completion. …
January 1, 2011
supernaut lightbox
When supernaut first began, there was barely much of the internet as it is now. I had decided to use …
October 9, 2010
Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波
Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I’ve been keeping up with my reading on this …
July 9, 2010
a website a video
She of the long red hair, Gabrielle Nankivell has her own website. Witch/Red was one of my favourite pieces in …
July 8, 2010
on science and ethics
Many of you who read my blog or know me personally know I am a bit of a lush for …
June 27, 2010
actually the whole purpose of this was…
actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this …
June 1, 2010
fontographie
Early rising to Kreuzberg and after a time to wake Matthi up in Reichenbergerstr. Breakfast peanutbutter and coffee, talking across …
May 14, 2010
wordpress security (in many small steps)
(This is for people who like reading code, cross-posted at thingswithbits.info) Earlier this year supernaut got hacked. Many other of …
May 11, 2010
bechdel’s law
A couple of days ago I was reading Thus Spake Zuska, one of the many science blogs I consume most …
April 29, 2010
sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures
No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …
April 21, 2010
Shifting Daniel Jaber into WordPress
Daniel Jaber is the second choreographer and dancer I’ve done a website for. Coming from Dasniya Sommer, I was intent …
April 19, 2010
ick bin sechs jahre alt (und na logo habe ich vergessen)
Ja, naturlich, immer ein weniger mehr und immer bisschen spät. Habe Ich heute mit Katrin geplaudert, und dann mir ging …
April 17, 2010
vanished again
I was wondering vaguely why supernaut’s site stats where plummeting ever lower, though decided it was a post-hack/infrequent-blogging combination, even …
April 17, 2010
customised flowplayer in wordpress
Last year while working on dasniyasommer.de and dealing with presenting video in an attractive way with much backend flexibility, I …
April 8, 2010
hate/love apple
Lucky I was in London for the long weekend, and so enjoying the longest break from my laptop and the …
April 7, 2010
absence
Not much blogging the last months and I feel shame. Though I have excuses. Firstly, the intermittent trackpad/keyboard freezing problem …
December 26, 2009
supernaut wordpress
Six months ago, deliriously annoyed with Movable Type, and deeply envious of all those people using WordPress. I install WP, …
August 5, 2009
a chronology of burnt-out corpses
Mainly that I laughed and snorted when I read the title and looked at the familiar map of Berlin drowned …
July 12, 2009
moving…
I have spent a lazy Saturday transferring supernaut over to WordPress (more on that there). The result of that for …
July 11, 2009
from ecto 3 to wordpress 2.8
uuhhh… When I started finding odd stuff in my Movable Type install for supernaut I knew the end was near. …
July 8, 2009
dasniyasommer.de
Because it’s… I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, …
July 7, 2009
thingswithbits.info
I thought it was about time I had another website… (Now I just need to get around to spending more …
April 18, 2009
ick bin fünf jahre alt (und ein wenig mehr)
mmm… ja, so… leider, ich habe nochmal vergaß. Meine erste Blog Geburtstag in Berlin! Det find’ ick schau. Das war …
February 16, 2009
cookie monster
I don’t like cookies so much. The persistent browser types, with expiry dates of 2031 that cause a trail of …
February 14, 2009
we are enemies… secrettechnology
Discovered on a mac forum that I’ve been on for years, and the best game I’ve played in years also, …
January 24, 2009
women in mac
I was watching Welcome to Macintosh a few nights ago, becoming engaged in a mindless indulgence in Apple, I do …
January 19, 2009
Things…
I started talking about Things by saying, For a very long time my way of organising bits and pieces was, …
January 18, 2009
mailtags & …
For a very long time my way of organising bits and pieces was, for short things in a hurry creating …
January 9, 2009
oops teach me to be stupid…
That will teach me to brazenly copy-paste with no thought to the consequences. Wondering why new posts weren’t showing up, …
December 15, 2008
it degrades rather gracefully…
I noticed recently it’s been almost two years since I did this site design. That I’m not so bored with …
December 8, 2008
things with bits
For all of you with Apple computers, iPods, iPhones, wireless internet, other bits and pieces of hardware, a need for …
October 2, 2008
twitter.com/francesdath
Somehow after all this time, being slow to adopt new things, I decided to get on twitter, mainly so I …
September 7, 2008
reading: books from zürich…
Lacking new reading, and I am suffering, I have been opening my suitcase of books from my life in Zürich …
August 16, 2008
chuang tzu again…
About a week ago, a quote from Chuang Tzu turned up on The Useless Tree (another shortly after explaining just …
July 24, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 8)
Wherein I discover that ImPulsTanz knows about my blogging of settlement and having revealed as such in their newsletter, I …
June 27, 2008
Global Voices Summit – Budapest
Some of my favourite and also most inspiring bloggers, writers, wonderful computer and internet people are all in Budapest for …
June 25, 2008
emile. blog. eurodisney.
Only this to say, about time. Emile is blogging at eurodisney.biz emile zile – eurodisney.biz
June 8, 2008
Reading: again… some for the fifth time…
Suffering from a paucity of new books the last two weeks, and packing mine all away in preparation for inevitable …
June 8, 2008
blog…
A notably slow Sunday, cleaning, washing dishes, reading The Subject of Gender that I am already certain will be on …
May 14, 2008
Reading: Antonio Giustozzi – Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007
koran, kalashnikov and laptop
April 29, 2008
生日快乐!!! happy 4rd birthday supernaut
Oops … 我忘了… I forgot… My blog’s 4th birthday was almost three weeks ago on the 7th of April. I …
April 8, 2008
ftp blah…
I have no idea why none of my FTP applications are able to run LIST -a while using Internode’s wireless …
March 15, 2008
… return
I was up till quite late last night methodically going through installing all of my add-ons, plugins, bits and pieces …
March 14, 2008
end … begin
Since mid-December I have been using one of the Centre for Astrophysics white MacBooks, which has been a joy. A …
February 12, 2008
monadologie – self-referentiality
Just because I’ve continually forgotten to do this… I’m blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New …
February 1, 2008
monadologie day 28 & 29
This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was …
January 27, 2008
more feeds and things … and blogrolls
A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs …
January 10, 2008
feeds and things …
Every so often someone asks, “How do you read so much stuff every day?” and rather than shatter their illusions …
December 14, 2007
when i decompiled the source code of my feed reader it said, satan satan satan!!!
Obviously, I thought it was funny… (Later on I felt a sense of dread…) 666 satanic feed reader
December 12, 2007
monadologie – a start
I’m now in residence at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where I’ll be for much of summer working …
August 8, 2007
danceminute
I used to be fairly prompt in getting enthusiastic here about new blogs, adding them to the spiraling list to …
August 6, 2007
in/out error
I’ve been living dangerously with my PowerBook for the last couple of months, bad sectors and other arcane hardware malfeasance, …
May 7, 2007
chk chk chk chk chk chk chk chk chk … again
My harddrive didn’t really make that sound this time, but this evening while backing up, I got endless corrupt files, …
April 30, 2007
…. . .-.. .–. / -. — / .. -. – . .-. -. . -
Not that five days of continual rain has anything to do with it, but I’ve had no access to the …
April 23, 2007
new photography in guangzhou
All month I’ve been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant …
April 7, 2007
生日快乐!!! happy 3rd birthday supernaut
Waah! Three years of blogging. How did that happen? Funny it seems more of something to celebrate than my human …
April 3, 2007
blog holiday
I’m taking a short holiday from blogging. I’ve been writing almost constantly for the last couple of weeks, and most …
March 29, 2007
just some blabbing about coding
During my rather pitiful self-help attempt at getting comments working, that quite possibly soon will be after a couple of …
March 28, 2007
comments … help … geekery
I’ve been planning on turning on comments again for a while, but there is the issue of a sacrificed goat …
March 27, 2007
poor excuse for absence of blog
Most of this week will involve occasionally staring at the housing commission flats a couple of streets north of here. …
March 22, 2007
three new categories
Finally I have added some new categories that have been eating at me like some rapacious tropical parasite. It a …
March 21, 2007
anna in space
My darling Anna, whom I first met at DanceWEB in Vienna 2003 and spent a few weeks post-inferno enjoying the …
March 12, 2007
doing stuff to me
Though it lingers in the caches of myriad anonymous server farms, I’ve deleted half of francesdath.info for good. My first …
March 8, 2007
1111101000
Twenty posts ago was my 1000th post. Celebration. Unfortunately the absinthe was only chocolate and the cheap sex was a …
February 25, 2007
a bit of a test
I spent the morning upgrading my blog software to Movable Type 3.34, possibly a stupid move but it seemed like …
February 24, 2007
it’s all about 冯三七 … i mean feng37 … i mean john
A couple of weeks ago, John Kennedy – also known as contemporary Chinese poetry translator Feng37 – thought that getting …
February 11, 2007
1000
A while ago I taught myself to count to 1023 using only ten fingers, in binary. I thought that was …
January 31, 2007
supernaut #3 bug list
A couple of days ago, someone asked me why the search function wasn’t working here. The answer is Spam. Dreamhost …
January 11, 2007
yeah … i know
I go away from the internet for two days, and what happens? The world goes mental. Apple’s (no longer Apple …
January 3, 2007
supernaut #3 blinks in the numinous light
Having spent the last few days playing around with a new design, I thought I’d preview it now. supernaut … …
December 30, 2006
supernaut … i whore for art #3
I haven’t been blogging lately because I feel rather awkward with littering the internet with my private life, and I …
December 21, 2006
techno…blah…ti, or the meaninglessness of social networks
A while ago, I ditched a slew of social networking vampires that had ceased to have any relevance to me. …
December 3, 2006
link whoring
There isn’t an even semi-adequate system for sorting all my links to other blogs, and on top of that failure, …
December 2, 2006
some stuff i read this week
Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl …
December 2, 2006
yeah, that’s what i think too
MySpace. What a desolate crevasse of meaninglessness, fake pseudo-friends, lowest-common-denominators in every realm of human imagination and obscenely poor coding. …
November 22, 2006
blaargh …
I’ve been sick the last couple of days. I swear this city is trying to kill me, I mean I …
October 30, 2006
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
October 28, 2006
new categories of choreography
I’ve been scratching around this evening making some new categories for here. The original and still intended idea is to …
comments are open … -ish
Does it look like I’m avoiding doing real work today, with a monster funding application due on Monday, what do …