Category Archives: Announcement

News of future events.

Hiatus – Update: Back to normal service!

UPDATE: Thanks to Shane G in the WordPress support forums, I have finally sorted the problem that was blocking access to big chunks of this blog, and I can now carry on posting as before.
I apologise to regular (and irregular) visitors for the lack of posts over the last week or two.
Some problems have occurred [...]

Hello Again! I’ve Been Missing You Too….

Click the image to make it bigger, please. (It’s a rare picture of the Articles and Texticles aesthetics committee, scrutinising a submission from an artist hoping to have his work hung on this site…)
Articles and Texticles is now functioning (almost) normally after changing web hosting company. Yippee, I say.
It was a somewhat fraught [...]

Moving Day for Articles & Texticles

Articles & Texticles is powered by WordPress publishing software.
I like the way that WordPress  works and the direction that its open source developers are taking it.
From a webmaster’s point of view, WordPress is so much easier to administer when you compare it to the standard HTML based static website, especially when it comes to updating [...]

David Speed R.I.P.

David Speed – 12th May 1947 – 17th February 2009 Picture courtesy of Julie Bridge, with thanks.
Yesterday was a sad day. I went to the funeral of a great friend. He was an amazing person who was crazy to live life to the full. He made Superman fly, jumped out of [...]

Roland Piquepaille’s Last Post

A salute to Roland Piquepaille, who died recently.
He was one of the net pioneers who really “got it”
Link to his journal: Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends
(Via: Howard Rheingold’s blog – SmartMobs)
As well as his own well informed and carefully written site, he was a regular guest contributor to ZD.net.
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The Vaguely Xmas Exhibition

An art exhibition featuring work by 26 of London’s animation stars kicks off on Monday 17th of November (Private View) and continues until the 22nd of November. 11am – 6 pm.
Waterloo Gallery Baylis Road Waterloo London SE1 7AA – Very close to London Waterloo station.

Brendan Amphlett Jen Arthur [...]

Database Server Falls Over – Not Many Hurt

Apologies for the absence of Articles & Texticles yesterday, my web hosting company (1and1.co.uk) were doing something unspeakable to the MySQL database servers and it took this site down for a few hours.
I’m always a bit suspicious when I see the visitor stats crash down to almost nothing…

(Click to enlarge)
Fortunately there is a real time [...]

Bibliodyssey In Print

If you ever take your mouse for a walk over the blogroll links at the top left of this page, you will meet the link for Bibliodyssey, which is an extraordinary treasure trove of printed illustrative material, assembled for your delight by PK, (also yclept peacay), and occasionally known as Paul K.
The good news [...]

Architects For Aid’s October Bamboo Building Workshop

Architects for Aid ( www.a-4-a.org ) are promoting an event called “Shoots”, which
will be a 2 day workshop in North London to help pool expertise from a variety of disciplines and combine it with enthusiasm from attendees in order to raise awareness, skill levels and knowledge of bamboo as a material for the application [...]

William Wray – `Dirty Beauty´ Book & One Man Show

William Wray’s latest paintings will be in a one man show at Segil Fine Art from the 22nd of September to the 20th of October. The Gallery is at 110 W. Lime Avenue, Monrovia, California CA 91016
He sums up his plein-air paintings thus: “If Thomas Kincaid is the painter of light, I’m the [...]

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