Good stuff

1. {ariel flux} is back online after many hours of crazi­ness and a steep learn­ing curve. It’s still run­ning the old soft­ware, but I will fiddle around with a test upgrade on a test site now rather than trying it with the live site. Best to learn before you start making money, right?

2. Having a lot of fun set­ting up the new Magazine Empire, includ­ing choos­ing hard­ware and back-up sys­tems and work­ing out net­works. I’ve always wanted a wire­less Mac office filled with funk­i­ness and bean­bags around a coffee table for meet­ings in an awe­some ware­house and now I get to do it!

3. Thanks to the visit to Apple yes­ter­day, I finally bought the proper con­nector for my laptop to talk to my TV, so I can now play DVDs from it. Since I can already con­nect the speak­ers from my stereo to it, I’m now sorted and the fact that my old Ken­wood DVD player has been stuff­ing up will no longer be an issue.

4. Have just been loaned Noam Chom­sky’s Failed States by a friend. Am look­ing for­ward to diving into another ser­i­ous polit­ical book. The oral his­tor­ies of the Egyp­tian women I’ve been read­ing are fas­cin­at­ing but not intel­lec­tu­ally strenuous.

Now, to play around with poetry stuff for my gig coming up on July 18 – put it in your diar­ies. More details soon.