May 27, 2004

Slight Update

On the offchance that anyone has been waiting with baited breath for this weblog to come alive again, it looks like the Drift Table will be with me before too long.

There's no exact date pencilled in for its arrival as yet, but when Barry (who is studying the responses of Glaswegians to the Table) returns from the Americas, the final repairs will be made.

Also, I've switched off comments on the weblog for the time being - in my absence spammers had turned this place into a billboard for some particularly unpleasant pornographic websites.

Finally, since it is very faintly related to the Drift Table, I think I should plug the book I'm reading, and thoroughly enjoying, at the moment: Garden Cities of To-morrow by Ebeneezer Howard. It's an 1898 treatise on town planning that suggests a model city, carefully zoned into residential, commercial and agricultural areas, owned in trust by its citizens. Fascinating stuff.

Slight Update Update:

It's coming! I know I've said this several times before, but I'm assured that the Table will be with me by this weekend (19-20 June). One of the Table's hard drives failed, and restoring it has been the cause of the delay. Now all the map data is - at last -loaded up, and the Table is ready to, well, drift.

Updating the Slight Update Update:

It's due this afternoon - 23 June - at 3pm! Fingers crossed it doesn't explode on its trip down the hill from the Computing Science Dept.

Posted by Jack on May 27, 2004 10:36 AM
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