This Blog Has Moved

Too Many Ideas has now moved into my rebuilt impworks site.

Please Mind the Gap

I'm in the process of switching my web site to running on wordpress. A lot of the hard works done but there may still be a few bits I've not quite finished moving properly and there may still be the odd problem for a couple of days. So in the mean time Please Mind the Gaps when Boarding the Train.

Things that make me go eh?

Bought new pots and pans today from John Lewis after spending months trying to pick ones I liked. I'd spent ages looking for pans that were oven proof. It didn't say they were on the top but on Saturday I discovered that along with exactly the same information that was on the top of the packaging there was just one extra important technical information - Oven proof to Gas Mark 4!

Thats not what made me go eh? though. The pans just had the information on the top. The frying pans had a photograph to brighten them up. If you were looking for a picture to make a frying pan more attractive you might choose one of bacon or sausages or maybe a couple of golden fried eggs. Not whoever designed this packaging. No they design the packaging for frying pans and they think: sliced carrots.

Rolf's Lyrics Explained

Maybe they should have tied the wallabies down as well as the Kangaroos because it sounds like they're high as kites.

268 Links Sitting in a Database

I rebuilt the Vue Links Directory from one database to another yesterday as part of finishing off a complete rebuild of the impworks site into WordPress. There were 268 links to migrate and while the basic move was handled easily I then had to work my way through and do some data cleaning to improve the quality of the directory on the new site. I've been working at it on and off for a couple of months now and its getting closer and closer to being done. One last push in the next few weeks and it'll be done and I'll be able to get on with adding stuff to it more easily.