A new option, for those who think buying me beer may be a bad idea. Buy me a book from my Amazon wishlist instead! Click the image ↑ up there.

How your donations help

As donors you want to know that your money is being well spent. Below are some of the good beers that are being bought with support from the Beer Fund.

  • Sunrise from Bristol Beer Factory
  • Doom Bar from Sharp's Brewery
  • Gem, by Bath ALes
  • ...plus many guest ales.

Archive for the 'meta' Category

New, shiny, improved.

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

The old ascorbic.net was starting to piss me off, primarily because Mambo (now Joomla) is one ugly lump of code. Also, the site was ugly. I’ve installed Wordpress a few times recently (for Huset and for work. I’ve needed to poke around with the code to a varying extent, and have been impressed by the quality. OK, it’s mostly procedural and has far too many global variables, but other than that it’s nicely organised.

So here it is. I’ve used a mix of templating, plugins and mod_rewrite trickery to embed the catbox archive within Wordpress. I’ve also given it a new, cleaner and less harsh design. I hope you like.