Daily Blague

This year, I'm going to follow the French and take off the month of August. But just as I'll remain in Manhattan, so I won't really take the month off at all. Instead of writing at my customary voluble rate, I'm going to refer visitors to pages at Portico, all but one of them, I believe, written prior to 2006. A few are "very old" indeed, going all the way back to 2001.

Meanwhile, I'll be overhauling Portico again. I don't expect this round to alter the look and feel of the site very much, but you never know where you're going to end up (or at least I don't) when you start to think about the structure of your site, and not about text to stuff it with. I'm going to concentrate on navigation, starting with an overhaul of the "Lobby" page, which has grown very dusty and fairly useless. I expect that every page in the site will have to be edited, if only in minor ways.

It will be time to fish or cut bait with regard to one rather anemic branch of the site, the one ostensibly devoted to Words. There's a lot of undeveloped real estate there - rather like one of those Florida projects with streets but no houses.

I'll continue to move material from the Daily Blague to Portico, along with all substantive comments. Needless to say, I welcome suggestions. Write to me, if you like. What's missing? - that's what I'd really like to hear about.

Why not begin by taking a walk in London? D'you know, I can't recall the year in which my friend and I took this walk from Little Venice to Notting Hill, through Holland Park and South Kensington. 2000? 2001? (Internal evidence points to the latter.) I don't usually mislay such dates. A normal person would have a calendar to refer to, but I lost a lot of that sort of thing with a computer crash in 2003. As I will every day this month, I'll hand you the path from Portico's Vestibule - another page in serious need of overhaul - to today's destination: .

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