A blunt, crass and ironic announcement

Kevin and I are not geeky.

Or cutesy.

We are not a geeky, cutesy couple who'd do things like having a joint weblog of any kind whatsoever. Despite any evidence to the contrary.

Okay, this is the deal. A couple of weeks ago idle thought and conversation, and me nagging encouraging Kevin to set up his own linklog, culminated in Kevin setting up his own linklog. What also happened was that he added me as an author, resulting in — lo and behold — a joint linklog, going by the name of Wibbling Tulips. It has an RSS feed and the most recent links are shown in sidebars. If nothing else, it saves us spending our IRC chats pushing links at one another :-)

Having to include a remote file on my front page resulted in the PHPification of bent back tulips, which of course promptly broke all my server side includes. If you were visiting between about 9pm and 10pm last night (GMT) you'll have probably noticed things being a little funky around here. The problems would have been solved much faster than this, but our internet connection yesterday decided to periodically stop responding, giving me intervals of about two or three minutes at a time before the connection died.

Disconnect, reconnect. About a thousand times, seemingly.

Not having an FTP client installed on the new, blank, XP hard drive - and not having enough continuous internet time to download one - I was using command line FTP. So every time the connection went, I had to type "open ftp.bentbacktulips.co.uk; [username]; [password]" and then change directory again to where I was before I could even resume what I'd been doing. On the plus side, I bet I'm now in the top 0.01% of the world for speed at typing "ftp.bentbacktulips.co.uk" without errors.

Given the above, and the fact that due to the above I had to quite literally stop myself from throwing things across the room, I decided not to bother changing the SSI to PHP includes for the rest of the site. So last night and today, everything that's not MT - namely, everything apart from the blog itself - was sans CSS and navigation. Apologies, but I couldn't quite bring myself to care enough in order to endure the further heartache of warring with my internet connection for another hour.