My site was down for a couple of days. You probably didn’t notice. These things happen when you’re on holiday, it seems. The nice people at Linode were very helpful, though, and it’s all back up now.

The Rolling Donut, Dublin. Highly recommended. Good to remember how good donuts can be if you don’t get misspelled American ones.

A pint of ice-cold Guinness in a pub in Dublin
A pint of ice-cold Guinness in a pub in Dublin

Ice-cold Guinness. I’m reminded of the late Bob Shaw…

At Holyhead, on the ferry for Dublin. It’s taking a while to get going, though.

Test posting to my site from Quill. I’ve no idea whether this will work.

Further to this morning’s post, it looks like I’ll be in the City for a while, and only going to the client’s site later, or occasionally. Which is good news for my commute.

On my way to first day at the new job. This is at the consultancy’s offices in the City, though, for induction, not at the client’s site.

Just realised that ‘Blue Monday’ gets its drum pattern from ‘Get Off of My Cloud.’

I’m pretty sure that all of these are meant to be autumnal. Yet here it’s early August — high summer — and there they are, growing madly.

First time anyone has asked me for a more detailed CV. But hey, I can write about myself till the cows come home.

Weird. I go to Ted Leo’s Soundcloud page. A track by someone called Lil Purpp starts playing. Nothing to do with Leo or the page I’m on, as far as I can see.

This is what Virgin Trains calls a window seat now.

Monster sky out my window. And time I tried some photos with this new phone.

Wait, Now ATP has gone back to the old outro theme. Was last week’s just a one-off? I’m so confused.

[@colinwalker](https://micro.blog/colinwalker) Did you know that your blog’s search page for the term is the second hit on DuckDuckGo for #indieweb? Quite impressive.

The Microformats 2 WordPress plugin was causing spurious HTML tags to be visible around my name next to these posts. I’ve disabled it for now. But looking at the page to get that link, I’m realising that maybe I don’t actually need it:

For all themes that do not declare support for Microformats 2, this plugin attempts to add Microformats to areas that are accessible through filters and actions.

I think the theme I’m using, Minnow, probably supports microformats already. Though I confess to having only slight understanding of what microformats are for. I added that plugin while moving the site the other day, along with all the #Indieweb plugins.

Testing Micro.blog with the new server setup.

Jodie Whittaker was amazing in Broadchurch. I’m extremely happy to see her as the new Doctor.

“Arguably the greatest player ever to pick up a racket.” There’s no argument, Sue.

I’m shocked, saddened and sickened that Wimbledon can’t spell Garbiñe Muguruza’s name correctly on their scoreboard. It’s not an emoji.