Yes, I know I’ve been a bad, bad blogger.
I’m going to be trying to post things a bit more often now. Been a bit busy, plus I’ve been trying to fix up a bunch of other problems with my various websites.
I’m also going to be trying to get back on to the diet. Been a hard couple of weeks to be dieting.
Sorry for the extended absence, but most of my spare hours normally devoted to this blog got used instead for the redesign that I’ve just put on. I’m still working on it, so it’s likely that a few bugs will show up. Let me know if you see any by leaving me a comment.
I have a couple more features in mind, yet, and still haven’t fixed the styling up for a couple of things. But I hope it works better than the old one!
Following the 500 words lost incident earlier today I’ve upgraded the tools that I use for posting to this weblog a little. I now use TextMate, a fabulous text editor that I use for all my coding. I found out it had a blogging interface, and away I went…
To make that work a little better, I’ve also installed Markdown support. Markdown is a very nice way of putting codes like links and italic and bold into the posts1.
All in all this makes posting a lot easier, and it also handles pictures much more quickly, so I have fewer excuses for my lack of posts than ever!
And it lets me make very neat footnotes, which makes me quite happy. ↩
I just typed about 500 words (which was only about halfway into the post) and then a ‘user malfunction’ caused it all to disappear. I wish this program had autosave! 
(I’ll try and get back to my fascinating post about mid-1970s exchange rate policy soon, but I don’t think I can stand doing it today…)
Sorry about the lack of posts for the last little while, I’ve been caught up with one thing (fairly frantic period at work right up until Christmas), another thing (Christmas) or something else (been pretty sick the last couple of days).
With good luck in this new year I’ll be able to post a lot more regulalry – my objective is at least once a day.
Strange thing: right this moment, I’m the top result in Google for ‘promoted to EL2‘. 
Update: Ooh, and I’m 6th for ‘treasury EL2‘.