The Wired Jester

The Wired Jester’s move to TypePad is now complete, so the old address (thewiredjester.blogware.com) no longer works. There’s a couple of issues with this:

* My one moment of internet fame – a mention on Boing Boing for my photos of the Sedlec Ossuary / Bone Church in Kutna Hora, the Czech Republich, is broken. The post itself lives on though, and I’ve made sure the pictures still work.

* Some posts have weird text formatting, and have lost some copy. I’m going through them and trying to fix this, but it’s taking a bit of time.

Other than that, it’s all good. I’ve cleaned up the Categories which should hopefully make it clearer to navigate previous posts .

Hello…. Hello! Welcome to the all new Wired Jester. We are now running on TypePad, cooking on gas, rocking on rock etc. Apologies for any confusion the changeover may have caused. I think getting the domain name pixies to change the URL over might have broken a few things, too.

So, why the change? The old site ran on Blog Harbor, which had really lovely, neatly customistable software. Unfortunately, I was just getting deluged with spam, and since I have a TypePad Pro account to run Treacle Down, I can host The Wired Jester her on TypePad very easily. The downside is that a) I have to figure out how to move content from the Blog Harbor TWJ to the TypePad one, and I also have to come to terms with the fact that TypePad, for some bizarre reason, can’t do paging (so when you get to the bottom of the page, that’s it, unless you click on the category links to your right.) At the moment, I’ve got 20 posts from the old TWJ up here, using KB Cafe’s very nifty RSS2MT tool, which takes a site’s RSS feed and creates a Movable Type import file with it. I have yet to figure out how to get the rest of the posts up here… But I will do soon, I hope

The stats program I use for this site lets me know how peole arrive; a few use the wiredjester.co.uk URL, which is nice, because it means they’re people who actually wanted to come and read the site, but a lot arrive through Google. Looking through the terms they use really makes me think that perhaps Google is not quite the uber search-engine it appears to be (or once was, perhaps?). I use a free stats program, so it only holds the last twenty search engine queries.   

So let’s see now….
1. ‘CC Torrents UK’ – well, the whole site is Creative Commons licensed, and I’ve written a couple of posts about CC and IP rights, here and here. I guess I’m not a bad suggestion for this search. 7/10, Google.
2. ‘Jester pictures’ – a common misconception. This is not a blog about Jesters. Try a search on Technorati. I have one picture of some Jesters. It’s here, but it’s not great.
3. I’ve been to Taiwan (pictures here) and I live in England. I’ve not exactly written a lot about it though. Perhaps I should.
4, 5. See 2.
6. Pass. Spaceman just makes me thing of that bad mid-90s song. Spacccceeee-man, etc.
7. Ah, now this I can help you with. My original post was here and you can buy them from JList (www.jlist.com).
8. Look, stop it. This is not the best place to look.
9. Blackpool, every time.
10.I’ve been to the Ossuary at Sedlec, the famous ‘Bone Church’ in the Czech Republic. My pictures are here.
11. Not sure, what sort of issues? Try the usual things: uninstall drivers, re-install the latest ones.
12. No, I’m not lying, I don’t have a secret cache.
13. See 7.
14. Ah, yeah. Nexus War (www.nexuswar.com). Excellent online game, well worth a go.
15. Jesters are, by their nature, quite low-tech, I feel. Perhaps a modern monarch could get an RSS feed of his foolery, though? Prince William and Harry, if you are reading, YOU CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN. Spend our tax pounds on something more fun than polo, go on.
16. You probably dedicate your life to WoW – does your wardrobe need to suffer, too?
17. See 7.
18.STEROID-INDUCED PSYCHOSIS LAWSUITS? Well, where to start… I am, to put it bluntly, not expert on anything these words imply. Google has failed you.
19. If you’re in London, try Abeno on Museum St (reviews here). They make great Okonomyaki.
20… Umm, there’s only 19. Maybe reader number really wanted to be here

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For some reason, my alex [at] thewiredjester.co.uk e-mail address has stopped forwarding my email on. It’s all just disappearing into a big black server hole somewhere… So if you want to get in touch, leave a comment, or drop me a line at alexwatson117 [at] hotmail.com. Thanks

Playing around with Technorati at the moment, trying to claim this blog, and quick claim isn’t working. So I need to link to my profile: Technorati Profile

Happy Birthday Me Thanks to everyone who remembered, my phone has been buzzing all day with text messages (cards are SO passe!)

Sorry if you were unable to see the site yesterday – the Boing Boing post brought a flood of visitors, so I exceeded my monthly bandwidth usage allowance. Bought some more, so the Jester should be ok now.