My blogs
History
By the most appropriate count, this is my third blog - though I’ve maintained a larger number in practice, many of them not publicly accessible. Before moving to WordPress, a sibilant intake of breath was managed using Blogger. Before that, I ran an OpenDiary. Though no longer updated, the Blogger version is still available.
If you’re looking for Night’s Sindark Nave: the blog I maintained from June 5th 2003 until August 25th 2005, it can no longer be publicly accessed.
Copyright
For information about the copyright status of my blogs, please see my copyright information page.
Nomenclature
The title a sibilant intake of breath is borrowed from Vladimir Nabokov’s superb 1955 novel Lolita. The breath in question belongs to Annabel Leigh: the childhood sweetheart of the narrator who dies of typhus, and who is clearly an allusion to Annabel Lee, the subject of the last poem written by Edgar Allen Poe. Those who have not been exposed to this magnificently crafted, emotive, and powerful book should almost certainly visit a nearby library and pick up a copy.
The title a sibilant intake of breath should be italicized, with no capital letters used.
Night’s Sindark Nave, the previous title for my main blog, is taken from the James Joyce poem Nightpiece. Despite several concerted efforts, my appreciation of Joyce has yet to extend beyond his poetry.
Technicalities
a sibilant intake of breath has been created and maintained in Mac OS X and Mozilla Firefox. It is hosted using Redhat Linux and Apache server. Content management is done with WordPress. My profound appreciation for open source software should be expressed, in respect for how useful it has been. All FTP management is done with a free student version of Fetch and all HTML and CSS editing is done in TextMate.
