http://dianeshipley.com no humiliation wasted Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:37:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en hello. in the space of a week, i got 3087 comments in my moderation queue. not because i am suddenly dooce, but because i am being spammed like crazy by people wanting to promote THE most hideous-sounding pronograhpie. if you left a non-pronograhpic comment, i appreciate it, but i didn't get to ... http://dianeshipley.com/2009/01/03/no-comments/ happy christmas and new year, everyone - i hope you can all relax, have fun and enjoy yourself. here's a picture of my best day of 2008, which i am calling diane and lamb, for obvious reasons: baaa humbug! http://dianeshipley.com/2008/12/24/happy-days/ [caveat: yes, i know war and disease and world hunger and the destruction of the ozone layer are more important, but this matters too.] last night i was accused of being a sore loser. so sue me. after watching strictly come dancing for fourteen saturday and sunday nights, plus spin-off show it ... http://dianeshipley.com/2008/12/21/strictly-unforgiveable-british-public-im-breaking-up-with-you/ following on from yesterday... 2. after many weeks of thinking the world was out to get me, everyone was awful and hated me, i'd never get work again and i was worthless as a human being, i finally realised i was having a depressive interlude. (no, the constant crying and ever-present ... http://dianeshipley.com/2008/12/12/number-2-i-said-it/ you may have noticed a couple of things lately, like: 1. the blog looks ugly 2. i haven't been blogging on it there are good reasons for both... well, there are reasons. 1. i'm shaking this site up! i'm not sure if i want to be a traditional personal blogger anymore. it sometimes feels too ... http://dianeshipley.com/2008/12/11/is-this-thing-on/ pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease. http://dianeshipley.com/2008/11/03/please-win/ bell's palsy, that is. i haz it. constant headache, blurred vision on one side, can't move my mouth or the right side of my face properly (edit: and have developed a metallic taste in my mouth)... i look and sound a bit like slyvester stallone (edit: or maybe milo ventimiglia!) but ... http://dianeshipley.com/2008/10/25/the-bells-the-bells/ 1. while it's very good for the environment not to flush every time you use the toilet, it's perhaps better to keep that policy for the privacy of your own home, rather than say, a museum loo. and in any case, brown goes down. 2. if you ask a waiter if ... http://dianeshipley.com/2008/10/20/notes-from-a-day-out/ ...things might look a bit ugly for a while as i work on a site makeover. it's ALL CHANGE round here! x http://dianeshipley.com/2008/10/11/er-yeah/ people are always telling me how wonderful wordpress, the blog software that runs this site is. you know what? it ISN'T. because none of the instructions for making modifications to it (allegedly soooo easy and fabulous) make a lick of sense. i just want to send some posts from wordpress.org to ... http://dianeshipley.com/2008/10/11/fun-with-laptops/