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New page: theatre reviews

July 5, 2009

If you visit this blog, rather than just read the RSS feed, you’ll see a new link at the very top of the page to a list of all the theatre reviews I’ve so far written for The Stage.

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…and you’re back in the room

January 13, 2009

Apologies for this site being offline for the last few days. My hosting provider, the otherwise excellent Site5, has been migrating clients over and somehow things got a little screwy in the move. It wasn’t helped by Site5’s initial email, notifying me that my account was being migrated, promising to follow up with additional emails […]

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A 100-word biography

September 28, 2007

As I mention on my About page, I’ve recently been lucky enough to have received a commission for my first professional piece of fiction — a short story for an anthology based around a certain TV show. The story itself has been approved, is currently being typeset and the (small but historic) cheque has long […]

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Mint statistics and a ’406 Not Acceptable’ error

September 1, 2007

This blog is hosted on a Site5 server, and earlier today suffered a major outage when the shared host it sits on had a severe hardware problem. Thankfully, that problem was rectified with the technical team’s usual good speed. Everybody’s home directories had to be restored from an earlier backup, but this blog is so […]

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Adding back some golden oldies

August 14, 2007

So since I relaunched the site, I’ve been monitoring which pages have been triggering the most 404 Page Not Found errors, and have ported a selection across to the new site. I definitely prefer doing it this way, even though it’s more labour intensive: I’m ending up with a clean blog with much less cruft. […]

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Starting from scratch…

August 10, 2007

Apologies that this blog has been so quiet of late. I do still have all of my old posts, but to be honest most of them are either out of date or were never read by anyone else anyway…

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