The extremely rickety automation I built to download and rename logfiles collapsed (again) sometime after last Thursday. The failure only came to light this morning when I tried to run Bise, the little analytics program that gives me a high-level view of what kinds of visits my sites are welcoming. Because of the way the server rotates my log files out of existence, it is quite difficult, though not impossible, to recover after more than a couple of days. For now, then, I have given up on stats until I can get home and sort things out. The problem is how to avoid such mishaps in the future.

The launch of a new blog carnival was so exciting that I wrote my own summary, even though I was not the host. That job was very ably performed by Sara Jakša, who launched the carnival. The point of my roundup was to visit each of the sites and, by way of encouragement, send a webmention to each...

Having done the heavy lifting to analyse Q1’s transport data, the only hard part today was to remember which bits did what. To that extent, the whole assembly is still manual till it hurts, which honestly isn’t much.

Changes from last time include:

• No car2go
• Not nearly as far in all mo...

It’s alive! The Carnival of IndieWeb, that is, with the first monthly roundup from Sara Jakša, who started this ball rolling. I looked at them all, because that’s a key point of blog carnivals, to discover things you might not otherwise have found.

Ah, summer, when all resolve to do stuff even while lazing about on holiday melts under the pressure of ... no pressure.

Highlights of the month:

• Raleigh bicycle frame painted and looking sharp, but all further work suspended until August (see above)
• Convinced the MBA to be more like the iMa...