Comments on: Nostalgia for the future http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nostalgia-for-the-future Adventures in words and web Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:20:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: AdamR http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-9440 AdamR Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:58:18 +0000 http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/#comment-9440 Total blast down memory lane! I also had this book when I was a kid (um I think I am about 4 years older than you) and I loved it, before graduating to books like "profiles of the future" by Arthur C Clarke. Awesome (-: Total blast down memory lane! I also had this book when I was a kid (um I think I am about 4 years older than you) and I loved it, before graduating to books like “profiles of the future” by Arthur C Clarke. Awesome (-:

]]> By: Sam Finnemore http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2435 Sam Finnemore Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:32:51 +0000 http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/#comment-2435 That was all very exciting. But I was shocked to read the suggestion that astronauts plodding through space to distant planets might be greeted in the end by ‘welcoming committees’ teleported there with more advanced technologies. Can you imagine how that would feel to someone who’s probably been partially frozen for dozens of years and only sustained, when awake, by the promise of untarnished frontiers? I hope all rayguns and sharp objects will be stowed away in advance. Honestly, if we’re going to develop into the sort of society that makes a mockery of our space travellers’ efforts, I can’t see the point in us bothering to survive that long. That was all very exciting. But I was shocked to read the suggestion that astronauts plodding through space to distant planets might be greeted in the end by ‘welcoming committees’ teleported there with more advanced technologies.

Can you imagine how that would feel to someone who’s probably been partially frozen for dozens of years and only sustained, when awake, by the promise of untarnished frontiers? I hope all rayguns and sharp objects will be stowed away in advance. Honestly, if we’re going to develop into the sort of society that makes a mockery of our space travellers’ efforts, I can’t see the point in us bothering to survive that long.

]]> By: Robyn http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2280 Robyn Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:29:21 +0000 http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/#comment-2280 WordPress is really easy to use! And you can easily import your TextPattern entries into WordPress. If you don't want to host it yourself, you can get a wordpress.com account and point your .com there. As far as design goes, I got tired to mucking around with CSS and just chose a template. <em>This</em> template is <a href="http://getk2.com/" rel="nofollow">K2</a>, which is popular but is easy to customise. But there are tons of good templates (aka themes) <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/" rel="nofollow">available here</a>. Get yr geek on! WordPress is really easy to use! And you can easily import your TextPattern entries into WordPress.

If you don’t want to host it yourself, you can get a wordpress.com account and point your .com there.

As far as design goes, I got tired to mucking around with CSS and just chose a template. This template is K2, which is popular but is easy to customise.

But there are tons of good templates (aka themes) available here.

Get yr geek on!

]]> By: Ani Moller http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2260 Ani Moller Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:48:45 +0000 http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/#comment-2260 Hey! Check this new website out! Wanna redesign mine for me? :P I want to jump on the WordPress bandwagon because the TextPattern one has broken wheels. Hey! Check this new website out! Wanna redesign mine for me? :P I want to jump on the WordPress bandwagon because the TextPattern one has broken wheels.

]]> By: Mrs Smith http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2242 Mrs Smith Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:55:31 +0000 http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/02/04/nostalgia-for-the-future/#comment-2242 All that technology - but still people have Bad Hair Days. What a rip-off. All that technology – but still people have Bad Hair Days. What a rip-off.

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