One good thing about converting the World of Me to this Wordpress malarkey is the readers ability to add comments after every post. Unfortunately, spamming bastards all over the world have programmed their spambots to bombard the comments fields with adverts for pharmaceuticals and dating websites.

It’s the reason I have to moderate all comments before they appear on the site. At one point, after receiving over twenty spam comments in one afternoon, I considered shutting off comments for all posts, but then I realised this was not a direction I wanted the World of Me to take. After all, who would Stuart have left to talk to?

As I can handle the current trickle of spam I’m leaving comments turned on for now, but at the first sign of mass spammage, I’ll turn it off.

It was just over a year ago that my previous PC decided to shuffle off this mortal coil in an unspectacular cloud of non-smoke. I was reminded of this fact only last Thursday night when my PC decided to do exactly the same all over again.

This time around there are no stories of crazy shenanigans involving mobile phones and weird error messages, this time around my PC just died, suddenly and properly. I’m not sure of the exact cause behind its untimely demise, only that there was an error with the motherboard that forced the machine to lock-up whenever the processor temperate reached 30 degrees Celsius. Again, the only cure this was to build a new machine, which is why I’m typing this from my brand-spangley new Intel quad-core super-deluxe PC with time travel and lottery number prediction system*.

As before, what I’m trying to say is this – my computer broke and I’ve fixed it. Let the updates commence!

*this is, in fact, a lie!

As you can see, The World of Me is starting to look a bit more presentable. Hopefully it won’t be too long before I can stop fiddling around with the layout and start focusing on the usual waffle I jokingly refer to as content.

That being said, I never want to edit another piece of WordPress-related CSS ever again!

I did mention that this site is now powered by Wordpress didn’t I?

I did this

I wish I could say that I have a really good excuse for not updating the web site for six months. Luckily for me, I can!

Our story begins during the week of the RAFTA project. I was in the kitchen of our temporary lodgings engaged in a rather lengthy mobile telephone call when I suffered what can best be described as a ‘spaz-hands’ moment.

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