full fathom five: Blog moved. Please update links.

Blog moved. Please update links.

Michael Studman — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400

I’ve moved web hosts and decided it was time to relaunch my blog as well as rechristen it ’Full Fathom Five’. It was also a good opportunity to smoke some of that red coloured crack (a.k.a. Ruby) by way of Typo.

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Sincere thanks to Neale at Metawerx for 2 years of excellent customer service hosting my Java-based blog. Thanks also to Simon Brown for Pebble, my faithful blog web application for the last year or so.

"Blog moved. Please update links." by Matt

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:15:57 -0400

Come on, I loved "Codegargle"... it was nerdy and sort-of minty fresh and a little gross and somehow always reminded me of a stone statue on the roof of a cathedral... all rolled into one!

"Blog moved. Please update links." by Michael Studman

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:07:58 -0400

It's from the Tempest (Ariel's Song):

    Full fathom five thy father lies;
              Of his bones are coral made;
    Those are pearls that were his eyes:
              Nothing of him that doth fade,
    But doth suffer a sea-change
    Into something rich and strange.
    Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
                              Ding-dong.
    Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell.

To be truthful I just liked the sound of the three words together (and it was less development-centric than the previous one, "Codegargle" - surely one of the worst blog names ever.) I wasn't aware of the The Pulp Fiction reference - no bad thing. Thanks for pointing it out.

"Blog moved. Please update links." by Alastair

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:25:49 -0400

Good work Michael. Ruby and Rails rock. Where does the title come from? It sounds like homage to Fox Force Five from Pulp Fiction.