To the friends and loved ones I have lost over the years,

On December 1st each year I wear a red ribbon in your memory and to show that you are not forgotten.

I wear the ribbon to show my support for those living with HIV/AIDS and their partners, friends and family.

I wear it to remind myself how easily it could be me someone is remembering. Continue reading →

You may notice the new look to this blog. For a number of reasons I have switched from Drupal to WordPress. Don’t get me wrong, Drupal is a very powerful platform and I will still be using it for other projects, but it wasn’t right for what is essentially simply a blog site.

In making the platform switch I discovered that my old blog’s database had become corrupted. Whilst this didn’t affect the site on a day-to-day basis, it did mean that my backups were also corrupt and made it impossible to easily migrate my posts. Because of this I have lost quite a few months worth of content which is rather annoying, to put it mildly.

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