I keep forgetting the kind of simple edits that are so trivial to make in CSL styles. Here I catalogue a few, for my own benefit and hopefully also useful to others. The occasion is a festive one —one paper in press and another accepted with minor revisions!— and I'm not going to let the fun be spoiled by the tedious job of making minute changes to the referencing styles. Where did the editors and reviewers find all this time anyway? One carefully added spaces before the page numbers in all my in-text references! I refuse to do that by hand. Instead, I'm simply going to edit the nearest CSL style and woosh, the whole document will be fine.

The Zotero documentation offers the basic information on how to edit CSL styles and how to get your new style into Zotero; here I assume that you've read that. (The lowdown: use the reference test pane to see the XML code of an existing style. Make it your own. Save it under a different name. Drag it onto Firefox to add it to Zotero.) Before I give the code snippets, it is probably useful to briefly outline what a CSL style looks like so that the code looks less terrifying.

Basic anatomy of a CSL style

A CSL style is simply a file that you can edit in any text editor consisting of a number of different 'blocks' of information. The information is couched in terms of a relatively simple but powerful XML-based metalanguage called "Citation Style Language" or CSL for short. Every CSL style basically looks as follows. First, an info block providing the metadata for the style (author, name, url, type); then a lot of macros defining the building blocks; a citation block that determines what citations look like in your document; and finally a bibliography block.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" xml:lang="en">
  <info>
	here goes the metadata
  </info>
	here go all the macros
  <citation>
	this block defines what a citation looks like
  </citation>
  <bibliography>
	this block defines what the bibliography looks like
  </bibliography>
</style>

Initials vs. full first names

Some styles have initials, others have full first names. Some of the first have initials followed by a period, others without. Personally, I think it is not the best thing to abbreviate information that is crucial for disambiguation, but this is what does it:

initialize-with="."

The above form gives you "Gombrich, E." Removing the period (i.e. having initialize-with="") gives you "Gombrich, E". Removing the option as a whole gives you "Gombrich, Ernst". Note that in some styles, this setting is included in several macros (e.g. editor as well as author) so you might have to adjust it in several places.

Multiple entries by the same author

Some well-known styles (for example the Chicago Manual of Style) substitute subsequent recurrences of an author with three em-dashes. The highlighted line below is what does it:

<bibliography>
      ...
    <option name="subsequent-author-substitute" value="———"/>
      ...
</bibliography>

If you don't want that happening, simply remove this option from the bibliography block.

Issue numbers

Some editors don't like issue numbers. In the Chicago style, the issue number comes out of the locators macro, and it is generated by the following line:

<text variable="issue" prefix=", no. "/>

Deleting that line gets rid of the issue number.

Page number prefix for in-text citations

For page numbers in in-text citations, some styles want (Doe 2010:5), others (Doe 2010, 5) and yet others (Doe 2010: 5) (note the space before the page number in the latter case). This is controlled by the group delimiter in the citation block towards the end of the CSL style.

<citation>
      ...
      (basic options)
      ...
    <layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
      <group delimiter=": ">
      ...
      (contributors, date, locators)
      ...
      </group>
    </layout>
  </citation>

delimiter=": " yields (Doe 2010: 5), while delimiter=", " yields (Doe 2010, 5), etc.

Want more?

Do you want more information, or need to make further customizations? The Zotero documentation has a page giving a CSL syntax summary. The common options given on that page are probably most useful to start with. Also, Rintze Zelle has written a very nice CSL 1.0 primer. And don't forget you can always ask for help in the Zotero forums. Loads of volunteer supporters there know more about CSL than I do.

Now online: SemiotiX New Series, an e-journal in semiotics. SemiotiX Bulletin has been around for several years, in hand-edited HTML. Its reincarnation, SemiotiX New Series, runs on WordPress, automating all of the technical stuff so that the editors can spend their time writing and editing contributions. Geek alert: the rest of this post details some of the technical stuff behind the scenes. Feel free to skip!

Why WordPress?

WordPress handles the e-journal format effortlessly. It's a breeze to include RSS feeds, organization by sections like 'editorial' and 'review', automatic archives of past issues, pages for static content, dynamic content areas that can be used for announcements, an interactive comment section, and nice thumbnails for articles. Search engines love WordPress, so the articles are easily findable.

The only slightly more complicated issue is how to do per-issue publishing in WordPress. By default, WordPress assumes a post-centered, chronological format (basically a timeline with dots representing individual posts). An e-journal however is issue-centered: clusters of posts published together periodically. The chronology of the posts within an issue doesn't really interest us; in fact, we want to be able to reorder posts at will. The best solution, both from a design and code point of view, is to explicitly recognize this difference in ontology using hierarchical categories. In the SemiotiX case, all individual issue categories are subcategories of ‘Issues’, and all content categories are subcategories of ‘Sections’. This is easy to get for end-users, and it is easy to code for developers. With that basic bifurcation in hand, we can easily get the front page to display all posts from the latest issue rather than the 10 latest posts regardless of category (the default setting). A simple category test (snippet 1 below) makes it possible to handle archives differently depending on whether people are looking at an issue or a content category.

Flexibility through theme functions

What I like most about the SemiotiX implementation is that there are no hardcoded category ID’s anywhere in the theme; all relevant ID's are pulled out from settings on a separate Publishing page, which is itself generated by a theme functions file (functions.php). The latest issue is chosen from a drop-down menu on the Publishing page. Defaults are put in place by retrieving the main category names (‘Issues’ and ‘Sections’) directly from the database, so it will work out of the box in a new setup. Drop-down lists show the existing parent categories so that other terms can be used if needed (e.g. Volumes vs. Topics), so the user never has to worry about finding category ID’s. A dedicated Dashboard widget displays vital information on the dashboard (snippet 2 below).

But how do we order the posts? Well, it turns out the orderby=menuorder feature also works with posts, contrary to what the WordPress docs say! This means that we can use a plugin like postMash to reorder the articles in an issue at will. Issue archives display the posts neatly by menu_order, while section archives and search result pages order the posts chronologically (snippet 1 again). An admin hook allows us to display a direct link to an ordering page on individual category pages (snippet 3).

The new SemiotiX also takes advantage of the built-in support for post thumbnails, making it very easy for editors to upload an image and use it as a thumbnail for display on the frontpage (snippet 4). Different sizes are generated automatically on the server, so there is no need anymore to use complex and error-prone plugins like Post Thumb Revisited and TimThumb. Finally, some unneeded options can be pruned from the visual editor using another snippet of code in functions.php (snippet 5).

Code snippets

All of these go into functions.php.

1. Test whether we're on an issue or a section archive

        		<?php if (is_category()) {
				// If this is a category archive
				// Are we looking at an 'Issues' or a 'sections' subcategory?
				  $cat = get_query_var('cat');
				  $args = array(
					'include' => $cat,
					  'hide_empty' => 0
					  );
				  $categories = get_categories($args);
				  if ( ($cat == $sections_cat) || ($categories[0]->category_parent == $sections_cat) ) {
					$archive_type = 'section' ;
				  } elseif ( ($cat == $issues_cat) || ($categories[0]->category_parent == $issues_cat) )  {
				  	$archive_type = 'issue' ;

				// For Issue archives, let's order posts by menu_order
					global $query_string;
					query_posts($query_string . "&order=ASC&orderby=menu_order");
				}

				?>

2. Display a widget on the Dashboard

// Setting and printing the widget content
function semiotix_dashboard_content() {

	global $custom_settings;
	$custom_settings = get_custom_settings();
	$current_issue_id = $custom_settings["current_issue"] ;
	$current_issue_name = get_cat_name( $current_issue_id );
	$cat = get_category($current_issue_id);
	$numarticles = $cat->category_count ;

	?>

    <p>Currently live: <?php echo '<strong>'.$current_issue_name.'</strong>, with '.$numarticles ; ?> articles (<a href="<?php bloginfo('wpurl') ; ?>/wp-admin/admin.php?page=<?php echo __FILE__ ; ?>">change here</a>)</p>
    <?php
} 

// Create the widget
function semiotix_dashboard_setup() {
	wp_add_dashboard_widget('semiotix_dashboard', 'Publishing', 'semiotix_dashboard_content', 'semiotix_dashboard_options');
}

// Add the widget to the dashboard
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'semiotix_dashboard_setup' );

3. Add an Admin hook for postMash

if(function_exists(postMash_getPages) ) {
// Add the action to the hook
add_action ( 'edit_category_form', 'post_order_link');

// Define the function
function post_order_link($category) {

	$cat_ID = (int) $_GET['cat_ID'];
	$cat_name = get_cat_name($cat_ID);

	?>

	<h2>Article order (<?php echo $cat_name; ?>) </h2>
	<a href="<?php echo bloginfo(wpurl)."/wp-admin/edit.php?page=postmash-filtered%2FpostMash.php&m=0&cat=".$cat_ID ;?>">Order the articles in this category</a>

	<?php
	}
}

4. Add theme support for thumbnails

// Add theme support for thumbnails
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 48, 48, true ); // 48 pixels wide by 48 pixels tall, hard crop mode
// Define several thumbnail sizes
add_image_size( '48x48-square', 48, 48, true );
add_image_size( 'featured-image', 100, 100 );

5. Prune the 'format' dropdown options in the visual editor

// Get rid of some option bloat in TinyMCE
function change_mce_options( $init ) {
 $init['theme_advanced_blockformats'] = 'p,h2,h3,blockquote';
 $init['theme_advanced_disable'] = 'forecolor';
 return $init;
}
add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'change_mce_options');

ELAN is a tool for creating complex annotations on video and audio resources. It's great for doing the hard work of annotation, but less ideal as a way of displaying the result, for example in a presentation. This brief tutorial covers a common use case: displaying a short stretch of video material with subtitles overlayed on the image. The instructions below are geared towards Windows users, although Mac users can also benefit from ELAN-exported .srt subtitles using VLC Media Player or Quicktime + Perian.

What you need

1. The latest version of ELAN, which has improved support for subtitles
2. Vobsub, a tool that overlays subtitles on videos. (I'm told Perian does the same for Quicktime on Mac.)
3. SubResync (included in Vobsub) for editing subtitle settings (changing fonts, editing size and placement).

In what follows I am presuming that you have installed these three tools. Not strictly necessary, but recommended for testing is VLC Media Player, an open source multimedia player that handles subtitles quite well.

Extract media clip

First we'll want to extract a media clip. Select the stretch of video you want and make a new annotation (I always have a tier 'selections' for this kind of annotations). Note down the begin and end timecodes and extract the clip with your favourite video editing application. If you have M2-edit-cl, ELAN can do the job for you: choose File > Export as > Media Clip. (If you don't have M2-edit-cl or there is a configuration error, this option will be greyed out.) Save the clip in a place where you can easily find it. Let's say it's called gunpowder.mpeg.

Export the subtitles

Then we want the subtitles. Maintain the selection of your annotation and take the following steps:

1. Choose File > Export as > Subtitles text...
2. In the 'select tiers' box, check the tiers you want to use as subtitles.
3. Under 'Output options', check the box 'Restrict to selected time interval'.
4. Uncheck 'add master media time offset to annotation times'.
5. Click OK.
6. In the following window, navigate to the folder where you saved the media clip. Give the subtitle file the same filename as your media clip, except for the extension. In my example, this would be gunpowder.srt.
   N.B. It is essential that your subtitles and your media clip reside in the same folder and have the same filename.
7. Last step: select the encoding. UTF-8 will do in most cases, but for special characters you'll have to change this later. If your annotations have no special characters you may also choose ISO-8859-1.
8. Now click 'Save'.

That's it, you're done.

Okay, now you have a media clip and a subtitles file. If Vobsub is installed correctly, it will automatically display the subtitles in any application that uses the Windows Media framework. This means you'll see subtitles overlayed on your video image in ELAN and in multimedia players like VLC, Winamp, and Windows Media Player. That's a good start and it may be enough for most of you.

But what about special characters?

If you use special characters in your annotations (e.g. IPA symbols), you may find that they go awry. There are two reasons for this. First of all, Vobsub expects a slightly different encoding, namely the Windows version of UTF-16. Secondly, Vobsub uses Arial as its default font, and that font doesn't include all special characters.

Fixing the first one is easy. Go to your subtitles file in Windows Explorer, right-click and select 'Open with...'. In the list, select 'Notepad'. Now Notepad, a simple text editor, has opened your .srt file and you can see how simple it is (just timecodes and text, really). In Notepad, go to File > Save as... . Don't change the filename, but do change the Encoding. It probably says 'UTF-8' (since that's what we chose when we exported the subtitles in ELAN). Change the encoding to 'Unicode' and save the file. Yes, you want to overwrite it.

Change to a Unicode-compliant font

For the second problem, there are multiple solutions. One is to change the font online in Vobsub. In your system tray (near the clock) you will see a green arrow indicating Vobsub activity while playing subtitled video files. Right-click this and select 'Direct Vobsub'. This will bring up a window where you can change the font (under 'Text Settings'). Change it to Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, or any other Unicode compliant font of your choice. If the characters still don't display correctly, Note that you still need the first step (changing the encoding).

A second, more permanent way around it is to change the font in the subtitle file. This can be done with SubResync, the small tool that's installed with Vobsub. The nice thing about this tool is that it gives you a preview of the subtitles as they will be rendered. Open your .srt file in SubResync. You'll see a list of the subtitles and their timing. Double-click the first line to bring up the 'Subtitle Style Editor'. Here, you can select another font and even change the styling (outline, shadow) and placement of the text. Click 'Save as...' to save your changes. This will generate a .srt.style file (in our example, gunpowder.srt.style) which is used by Vobsub to read the settings. And presto! you've got your styled subtitles including special characters.

Bonus tip: You only need to make these customizations once. If you like them, save a copy of the .srt.style file someplace you can easily find it. Whenever you need that style, you can just make another copy and change its name to that of the video clip you want to use it with (e.g. palmoil.srt.style instead of gunpowder.srt.style).

Questions?

Feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions. If you want to know how to embed subtitles in your actual video file ('hardcoded subtitles'), here is an excellent tutorial by Robin Dittwald.

Not all linguists may be aware of this, but since 2007 there has been a Unified Style Sheet for publications in our field, developed by the editors of a number of linguistic journals, including Language. (Oddly enough, just which journals besides Language joined in the effort remains unclear.) There is not much centralized information available about this style, but we have the 2007 specifications (PDF) and a page endorsing the style at the official LSA website.

As Stephen Anderson writes on the Linguist List,

Use of this style is encouraged, and if it is widely adopted, that could considerably facilitate the preparation of manuscripts. In support of that, it would be useful to have software support for it in popular document preparation systems.

I'm happy to report that Zotero now supports the unified style through the powerful open format CSL. If you have Zotero, you can simply install the style right away. Zotero of course already supported lots of other citation styles, including the widely used APA and MLA as well as styles for specific journals like Language (install) and the Journal of Pragmatics (install).

I haven't been able to find a definitive list of the journals that have adapted the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics, but some examples of journals using and/or endorsing it are Language itself, Semantics & Pragmatics, and the Journal of English Linguistics. Also, the LDLT conference series at SOAS, London is using it in its proceedings. Does anyone know of more journals?

Dashboard Post-it is a simple plugin for WordPress 2.7 and higher that allows you to leave yourself or other authors a note on the dashboard. It is implemented as a configurable dashboard widget, so you can collapse it, move it around, and edit it as any other dashboard widget. It will accept plain text or (sanitized) HTML. Only users with the capability "Edit dashboard" can edit the note.

As of today, Dashboard Post-it is available for download at the WordPress plugin repository. Screenshots and installation instructions can be found over there.

I wrote the plugin for my own use. There are alternatives, but since some of them stopped working after the changes to the Dashboard in WP 2.7 and others are not widgetized, and since this is a much requested feature, I decided to submit the plugin to the repository.

It's here. Zotero 1.5 beta. The new version comes with built-in synchronization, exports to more than 1100 citation styles, and supports browsing your library online (see below). Zotero is now better than EndNote on all fronts. Here's a quick overview of the most important features:

• Synchronization. Automatically keep your library in sync across different PCs. If you have access to WebDAV storage, synching can also include your attachments.
• Automatic backup. A copy of your library is stored safely on the synchronization server.
• More than 1100 CSL citation styles. The style repository has grown immensely due to community efforts. Zotero styles are built on the powerful open source Citation Style Language (CSL), an XML dialect.
• Support for EndNote styles. Thousands of EndNote .ens styles can now be used for citation formatting. These styles are available to licensed users of EndNote.
• Rich text notes. Formatting can now be applied to notes with a WYSIWYG editor.
• Automatic detection of PDF metadata. Another much requested feature. Not yet bulletproof because it depends on the information available in your PDF and the repository used to look it up, but a great step forward.
• Shared collections. Easily share and build collections with colleagues.

All of this built on open source technologies and standards, which means that your data is not locked up in proprietary software at the mercy of profit driven companies.

New website features

Browse your Zotero library online [click for fullsize]

Meanwhile, the Zotero website has seen a major revamping, the most important new feature being the ability to browse your library online. Other features are more geared towards social networking activities: users now can have an online Zotero profile, can follow other Zotero users, and can build an online CV.

If you're still stuck on EndNote, check out making the switch to Zotero, or see my review and comparison from last year. Questions? There are lots of helpful and friendly people hanging out in the Zotero forums. You can also post them below.

Phonology Assistant (PA) is a free phonology tool by SIL that (as of version 3.0) works interactively with the data stored in Toolbox, Fieldworks Language Explorer, and Speech Analyzer. It automates many of the cumbersome and repetitive tasks associated with doing phonological analysis, and it does so in a most systematic and revealing way. The things it does more or less automatically include drawing up a phone inventory; computing relative frequencies of phones; computing syllable structures; generating phonotactic charts for every conceivable combination of positions, phones, or features; and finding minimal pairs along various dimensions. A powerful search function allows the user to search for phonetic patterns within specified environments.

A review of Phonology Assistant by me was published yesterday in Language Documentation & Conservation. It's a tremendously useful tool — anyone who has ever been faced with the task of doing phonological analysis will know that it can grow enormously complex, especially if one wants to be comprehensive and look not just at simple positional distribution (initial, medial, final) but also at occurrence in different environments (intervocalic, before voiced fricatives, after a nasal consonant, etc.). PA assists in these household chores, and does it all with an interface so smooth you wouldn't notice the conceptual complexity of the tasks. Check out the review (pdf) or the PA website.

1. Dingemanse, Mark. 2008. Review of Phonology Assistant 3.0.1. Language Documentation & Conservation 2, no. 2: 325-331. doi:http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4350.  

Zotero is getting better and better. In a while, version 1.5 will bring synchronization, online backup of your library, +1100 CSL citation styles, and PDF metadata extraction (for the daring, a sync preview version is available). But even in its current incarnation Zotero is easily one of the best bibliographic managers out there. Here are twelve tips and tricks that help you to get the most out of it.

1. Drag files from the web right into your library
   Got a reference in your library, but no PDF? Or saved an item from a repository which doesn't provide a fulltext version? Do a quick search for the title on Google Scholar — it is good at finding PDFs on author's webpages. If you find one, just drag the link from the page onto the reference in your library. Zotero stores and attaches the PDF for you.
2. Enter a series of items by duplicating a template
   Adding a series of related references to your library? Start with one item for which you fill in the fields that are the same for all items (e.g. editors, book title, year, publisher, place) and duplicate it (Right-click > Duplicate item). Then fill in the particularities.
3. Quick Copy a citation using Ctrl+Alt+C or drag and drop
   Sending a PDF to a colleague, or mentioning a reference somewhere? Quickly copy the citation by selecting the reference and pressing Ctrl+Alt+C (Command+Alt+C on the Mac), or simply drag it from Zotero onto any edit window (for example a new email). The default output style can be specified under Preferences > Export; the shortcut key can be customized under Shortcut keys.
4. Have Zotero index your PDFs
   Zotero can index your PDF attachments and make them fully searchable, turning your library from a mere linked catalogue into a Google Books of sorts. The option is turned off by default because it relies on an external open source program (pdf2txt) which is not distributed with Zotero. However, Zotero can automatically install it and enable fulltext indexing: simply go to Preferences > Search and click on the 'Check for installer' button. For more info see pdf fulltext indexing in the Zotero documentation.
5. Start quicksearch with " to trigger advanced search
   By default, Zotero starts searching when you put the first few characters in the Search box. In a large library with fulltext indexing enabled, this can be tiresome (you wanted to look for "statistical methods", but Zotero locks down searching for "st"). To avoid this, simply start your search with " (double quote) to have Zotero wait until you finish typing and hit enter.
6. Press Ctrl to find out in which collections an item is
   Looking at an item in your library and wondering whether you already categorized it? Press Control and Zotero will highlight the collections in which it is contained.
7. Relocate your Zotero folder to a more sensible place
   The default place for the Zotero database and attachments in right in your Firefox profile, which isn't the easiest to locate whichever OS you are on. Go to Preferences > Advanced to customize the storage location. You can place it in a folder that is included in your regular backup schedule or put it on a portable drive so that your library always travels with you (tip: combine it with Firefox Portable, which you can even use without administrator rights).
8. Keep track of recent additions using a saved search
   Often you add new items without worrying about tagging or putting them in collections. Click Advanced search, select "Dated Added" > "is in the last" > X "days/months" and fill in the desired period; then save the search. This gives you a dynamically updated overview of your latest additions, so that you can go back to them and do the categorization and tagging work when it suits you.
9. Tag multiple items at once
   Want to tag multiple items at once? Select them, make sure the tag selector is visible in the left pane, and drag them onto the tag you want to use. The tag will be applied to all items.
10. Tag incomplete items to find them back and fix them later
    Sometimes you know an item has incomplete metadata (e.g. missing page numbers or publisher), but you don't have the time to fix it right away. Make it a habit to tag such items ("needs metadata") when you see them. Now you can find them and fix them whenever you have some time to kill.
11. Use a separate folder for files to be ingested
    Someone gives you a bunch of PDFs to read; or you download a paper somewhere without having the metadata handy. Make it a habit to save such files in a subfolder /new/ in your Zotero folder. Then once in a while go through that folder. Do a quick search for the title on your favourite repository, grab the metadata, and then drag the PDF from your filemanager onto the reference in Zotero. Much better than having those loose PDFs scattered all over your hard drive (or in your mailbox!) — and it helps you keep track of your reading history too.
12. Display a timeline to visualize your bibliography
    Not a feature you'll use everyday, but a neat one nonetheless: Zotero can display your library, or portions of it, on a timeline. Select a group of references, a tag, or a collection and click 'Create timeline' (in the Gear menu). This gives you an overview of the items in time. Now you have to ask yourself: is the recency bias due to your reading habits or is it really true that most of the research was done in the last twenty years? (Probably a bit of both.)

Questions or suggestions? Leave a comment.

Great news for those who are into visual corpus linguistics but don't work on SAE languages: since July, Wordle handles alphabets in the Extended Latin ranges; and today its maker, Jonathan Feinberg, added support for combining diacritics. That means that you can now feed Wordle texts from languages that use tone marks and other diacritics in their orthographies. Like Siwu.

Wordle based on some ten minutes of spontaneous conversation in Siwu.

The Wordle above displays the most common words in some ten minutes of spontaneous conversation in Siwu, one of the fruits of my last fieldtrip. The conversation has four participants. Nothing groundbreaking about this particular Wordle, it's just a nice word cloud starring:

• kùɖu 'gunpowder', the main topic of the conversation since this was actually videotaped while the four participants were manufacturing a local type of gunpowder;
• sɔ, the all-purpose quotative/complementizer — (X) (says) that Y...;
• gɔ, the relative pronoun for the animate singular class, as in ɔ̀turi gɔ lokpi 'the man who died' — this indicates that a lot of the talk is about persons;
• mm, a backchannel cue signalling involvement and attention
• fɔ, an emphatic 2nd person pronoun;
• kɔ̃rɔ 'right now', a stoplap roughly used as English now in 'now we went there and guess what happened...'

Things this Wordle cannot show is the relative differences in conversational strategies of the participants. Mr. Orange, for example, as I call him in my ELAN transcript of the conversation, is by far the main supplier of mm and its cousin m-hm; in fact his repertoire is not much bigger than that — rather than doing the talking he prefers to have a supporting role in this particular conversation.

The three others are much more vocal and varied, not to mention much more expressive (ideophones are sprinkled all over the place!). But that's all for another occassion. For now, cheers to the new Wordle!

The Ideophone has found a new home at http://ideophone.org/. Links to the old pages should still work, but I would like to ask readers and fellow bloggers to update their bookmarks and blogrolls.

The move was planned to take place in September but it had to be carried out prematurely because my provider itself was migrating their servers and I didn't want to go with them. Being in the field for five more weeks I had no quick way of fixing it. The ever so helpful Lieuwe of ON2IT Security came to the rescue and carried out a swift and smooth migration. Lieuwe, you owe me!

Readers, thanks for understanding, and welcome back!