I noticed a few weeks ago that traffic from China was low — single digits low instead of being in …
May 30, 2011 – 11:00 am
supernaut updates supernaut
Last night I noticed the dilapidated state of my sidebar links. “Who uses them anyway?”, I thought, before answering myself …
March 8, 2011 – 2:22 pm
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 – 12:14 am
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. …
November 27, 2010 – 11:13 am
blacker…
China Miéville’s rejectamentalist manifesto has been one of my favourite daily-ish reads since I stumbled into it after wondering where …
July 8, 2010 – 5:31 am
on science and ethics
Many of you who read my blog or know me personally know I am a bit of a lush for …
May 14, 2010 – 8:30 am
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 …
April 19, 2010 – 12:23 pm
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 – 3:53 am
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 …
December 26, 2009 – 3:32 pm
supernaut wordpress
Six months ago, deliriously annoyed with Movable Type, and deeply envious of all those people using WordPress. I install WP, …
July 12, 2009 – 11:24 am
moving…
I have spent a lazy Saturday transferring supernaut over to WordPress (more on that there). The result of that for …
July 11, 2009 – 6:04 am
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. …
June 21, 2009 – 1:23 am
ich habe eine kamera. es ist schwarz
panasonic lx3 black noir schwarz miscellanea plus box and 8gb sdhc card panasonic lx3 and lens cap pasm! hotshoe! 4:3 …
April 18, 2009 – 2:26 am
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 …
April 6, 2009 – 1:56 am
blog stuff
I shouldn’t be on my laptop today; I am bad. Working around 12 and sometimes up to 16 hours a …
January 9, 2009 – 9:27 pm
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 – 6:34 pm
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 …
October 2, 2008 – 6:05 am
twitter.com/francesdath
Somehow after all this time, being slow to adopt new things, I decided to get on twitter, mainly so I …
August 16, 2008 – 8:21 pm
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 – 7:05 am
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 – 8:07 pm
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 – 8:00 pm
emile. blog. eurodisney.
Only this to say, about time. Emile is blogging at eurodisney.biz emile zile – eurodisney.biz
June 8, 2008 – 2:34 pm
blog…
A notably slow Sunday, cleaning, washing dishes, reading The Subject of Gender that I am already certain will be on …
May 27, 2008 – 6:20 pm
buzkashi, self-portrait & laptop
When I was a student, I would trundle up to Melbourne Uni and on weekends and holidays hole up the …
May 1, 2008 – 4:14 pm
Reading: Nasrin Alavi – We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs
nasrin alavi – we are iran
April 29, 2008 – 4:43 pm
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 – 5:30 pm
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 – 3:21 pm
… 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 – 4:45 pm
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 – 1:28 pm
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 …
January 27, 2008 – 1:05 pm
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 23, 2008 – 7:00 am
Blog for Choice day
Today marks thirty-five years since Roe vs. Wade. A number of my favourite blogs including Feministing and (en)gender posted on …
January 10, 2008 – 4:57 pm
feeds and things …
Every so often someone asks, “How do you read so much stuff every day?” and rather than shatter their illusions …
August 8, 2007 – 6:10 pm
danceminute
I used to be fairly prompt in getting enthusiastic here about new blogs, adding them to the spiraling list to …
August 6, 2007 – 12:53 pm
in/out error
I’ve been living dangerously with my PowerBook for the last couple of months, bad sectors and other arcane hardware malfeasance, …
July 10, 2007 – 6:43 pm
flyhatched
It was only three years ago but seems … one of those entanglings with a person that are outside of …
June 19, 2007 – 10:30 pm
冯三七 canton disaster relief blogging
John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I …
June 14, 2007 – 1:53 pm
yes, i know …
I do feel remiss at not blogging. Really. Every day I think, “Oh get it together!”. But after three years …
May 7, 2007 – 9:02 pm
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 – 5:39 pm
…. . .-.. .–. / -. — / .. -. – . .-. -. . -
Not that five days of continual rain has anything to do with it, but I’ve had no access to the …
April 23, 2007 – 9:36 am
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 – 10:39 am
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 – 5:06 pm
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 – 8:51 pm
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 – 7:21 pm
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 – 3:27 pm
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 – 9:52 pm
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 – 4:28 pm
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 15, 2007 – 8:15 pm
i want your dance
Last year Bare Bones came to Melbourne to work with Roz Warby. What was intriguing for me was not the …
March 8, 2007 – 2:44 pm
1111101000
Twenty posts ago was my 1000th post. Celebration. Unfortunately the absinthe was only chocolate and the cheap sex was a …
February 25, 2007 – 12:57 pm
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 – 5:01 pm
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 – 12:30 pm
1000
A while ago I taught myself to count to 1023 using only ten fingers, in binary. I thought that was …
February 10, 2007 – 1:40 pm
Protected: an excuse
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
January 31, 2007 – 11:00 am
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 28, 2007 – 8:05 pm
adelaide stuff
I’m sorry!!! I know we were only just talking in the kitchen a few hours ago and you really, really, …
January 3, 2007 – 1:46 pm
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 – 11:30 pm
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 – 8:07 pm
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 – 12:41 am
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 – 3:18 pm
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 …
November 22, 2006 – 10:54 am
blaargh …
I’ve been sick the last couple of days. I swear this city is trying to kill me, I mean I …
November 6, 2006 – 8:49 pm
sisyphus was here
Far too many of these excuses for not blogging in the last couple of months, and here’s another one, as …
October 30, 2006 – 3:17 pm
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 – 6:08 pm
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 …
October 20, 2006 – 2:59 pm
yes i feel shame
I know you come here and every day I let you down, like a poor lover who just can’t stop …
October 12, 2006 – 7:41 am
silence
I’ve been living in the theatre the last week, out in Golden Grove Arts Centre, somewhere I think in North-East …
October 1, 2006 – 11:52 am
stuff i read today
Having dragged myself out of bed at the rather late hour of 1030 and still working my way through a …
September 26, 2006 – 7:37 pm
they are not my dreams
After coughing myself into sleep deprivation over the previous couple of weeks, it was a blessing when dreams returned last …
September 25, 2006 – 9:52 pm
长沙刁民 changsha rogue
One of my favourite means of getting around Guangzhou since I first got over my terror of speeding death under …
September 22, 2006 – 5:49 pm
i don’t want excuses i want blog
I’m in Adelaide at the moment for something I’ll write about more soon. One of myriad things I don’t have …
September 7, 2006 – 9:26 pm
insanity…
These four days until Sunday night I have pretty much no time to do important stuff like eat chocolate and …
September 2, 2006 – 12:32 pm
what i read today
For a while I kept a del.ic.ious account (last updated almost two months ago). I also used to have one …
August 23, 2006 – 10:02 pm
asian blog awards 2006
I have no idea who nominated me for the Asian Blog Awards 2006, but I’m quite flattered; and quite amused …
August 2, 2006 – 10:09 pm
slacker
I’m really going to blame my lack of blogging on inadvertently slipping through Guangzhou airport and finding myself in Melbourne. …
June 23, 2006 – 2:22 pm
dreamhost kills supernaut
DreamHost, who have been hosting my websites this year, had a major problem with their DNS servers. The practical result …
April 17, 2006 – 11:43 pm
supernaut is lazy (but can read…)
I’d probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut …
April 8, 2006 – 6:29 pm
a couple of anniversaries i forgot…
I’m really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need …
March 23, 2006 – 7:15 pm
more blogs for compulsive clickers
Obviously I collect blogs the way philatelists collect small rectangles of perforated paper, and one day a mint-condition first-edition of …
March 17, 2006 – 11:08 pm
eeeeeee!!! blog!!!!
I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou …
February 27, 2006 – 5:24 pm
guangzhou art and blogs
A few days ago a friend of mine who used to work at Park19 emailed me with a link to …
February 26, 2006 – 12:08 am
linking to stuff – an ode to blogrolls
Since I started using NetNewsWire to read all my blogs, I’ve been adding feeds at the rate of a few …
January 1, 2006 – 1:29 pm
錄影太奇 videotage blogging at MAG@V
錄影太奇 Videotage in Hong Kong I know better for 跳格 – JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the annual dance film/video festival that’s part …
December 24, 2005 – 12:17 pm
a new beginning … same old whoring
… i know i’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but i can give you my complete assurance that my …
December 12, 2005 – 2:53 pm
chinese mediaculture
One of the works at the 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, the Beijing Boom Tower, has come back to me in …
December 5, 2005 – 4:09 pm
categories and stuff
I’ve changed some of the names of the categories to make them a little more representative of what gets assigned …
December 5, 2005 – 3:49 pm
don’t bomb us – al jazeera goes blog
Somehow, I think through one of the feeds I subscribe to, I stumbled upon what is one of the best …
November 29, 2005 – 10:28 am
lady – the blog
Lady, the hot trash Korean transgender manufactured pop band noone has listened to but everyone has seen pictures of, now …
November 15, 2005 – 3:56 am
flog p-blog phlog
To further my uselessness and add to the hurricane of zero-content bandwidth, and also in a shameless attempt to emulate …
November 11, 2005 – 7:29 pm
China Digital Times 中国数字时代 rsf blog nomination
Two blogs from or on China have been nominated for the Reporters Sans Frontières in a field of eight (which …
November 7, 2005 – 7:47 pm
chinese blogger conference 2005
The 中文网志年会 Chinese Blogger Conference 2005 has been going on in Shanghai for the last couple of days. Rebecca McKinnon …
November 2, 2005 – 2:29 am
daily blog reading
I went through my blog bookmarks a couple of days ago, which now number several folders with 15 or more …
October 31, 2005 – 3:42 am
cornhoolio … mit brot
Cornelia is blogging. I’m in trouble… all flog … all the time … debbie – mercy45
October 25, 2005 – 5:54 pm
i blog for … ummm … stuff …
Losing seriously in a game of charades last night when I displayed my absolute out-of-date-ness by failing to guess ‘computer+writer=blog’, …
October 12, 2005 – 3:30 am
slow boat to psychedelia
Writing abusive diatribes against a certain cretinous moron from a respectable Zürich newspaper who has built a reputation on vandalising …
September 30, 2005 – 6:38 am
all encoding all the time
My PowerBook is currently chewing through 40 gigs of video, encoding and turning it into something that will one day …
September 5, 2005 – 7:05 pm
how to blog anonymously
Reporters sans Frontières have just released a booklet Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, in several languages including Chinese. Alot of …
August 31, 2005 – 3:38 am
3108 blog day 2005
Well, I didn’t even know about it… so much for being bleeding-bloody-edge and stuff. Well it’s because some blogger in …
August 19, 2005 – 5:26 am
slim pickings at supernaut
Yeah, I know four days of posting in half a month constitutes a new zenith in blogging atrophy for me. …
April 29, 2005 – 7:24 pm
supernaut – ecto’s blog of the week
Adriaan, the maker of the best blogging client ecto, has slapped up supernaut as the ecto powered blog of the …
April 12, 2005 – 10:15 pm
shashwati talukdar
The guy who makes the amazing ecto, which gives me blogging pleasure on a daily basis started a ‘blog of …
March 26, 2005 – 1:53 pm
some site changes
I’ve just made some small changes to the layout of the sidebar. Firstly reorganised the links a bit (and cut …
February 8, 2005 – 5:57 pm
56k narrowband
Posting will resume on Friday when I get back to Taipei and broadband heaven. Lots of art and climbing stories …
January 26, 2005 – 7:37 pm
ow my eye hurt
Just in time for Chinese New Year, my departure from the Taipei Artist Village and my impending :cough: holiday. A …
January 9, 2005 – 3:35 pm
化境神似 from zhwj
I can’t remember what I was reading which had the link to this, but after being stunned by In the …
January 8, 2005 – 3:31 pm
asian blog awards
The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new …
January 8, 2005 – 2:27 pm
show/hide
I spent about all of five seconds last night adding scriptygoddess show/hide extended field piece of code. I’ve been a …
January 5, 2005 – 3:39 pm
vote for meee!!! … again …
The party at Simon World for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards has barely finished and the results are still being …
January 4, 2005 – 7:56 pm
in the footsteps of joseph rock
There are a whole pageload of new blogs over at sinosplice china blog list, but only in only one is …
December 30, 2004 – 10:43 pm
vote for me!!!
This is your last chance to vote for me in the Asian Blog Awards, so go on do something worthwhile …
December 16, 2004 – 2:17 pm
asian blog awards
It’s time to vote over at Simon World for the best blog from pretty much every country from Pakistan to …
November 1, 2004 – 12:05 am
i don’t understand
Since starting this part of my site almost 7 months ago, after having a very small flash-based news section on …
October 10, 2004 – 1:29 pm
what’s going on?
I’ve been very busy the last couple of weeks with getting ready for my residency in Taipei at the Taipei …
August 27, 2004 – 5:24 pm
the great blogger survey
The fibreculture mailing list for all things net-art and computery had a request from email hidden; JavaScript is required who …
August 22, 2004 – 3:31 pm
first posts
Single Planet celebrates one year in Blogistan with a post on the first posts of many of the Chinese blog …
July 5, 2004 – 4:31 pm
signal to noise
After receiving 50 beautiful invitations to all kinds of … ummm… interesting group events in my comments this morning, possibly …
May 13, 2004 – 1:16 am
I whore for syndication
Just a couple of days over a month since I started this blog, and about a year after I fell …
April 7, 2004 – 4:14 pm
nobody moves and nobody gets hurt
[edit] I don’t really like this entry, but the authenticist in me can’t bring myself to re-write it… The original …
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 …