Category: Housekeeping

As those of us in the northern hemisphere celebrate the imminent arrival of spring, and commiserate with our brethren and sistern in the south, and as those of us lolling around on or about the equator prepare to suck up another Tusker, baridi sana, The Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog wishes all of you a happy holiday, thanks you for your attention and contributions over the past year, and hopes to be back with more goodies on or around 5 January 2010, when we’ll be hoping to stick some agro into the International Year of Biodiversity.

Have fun.

If you came here earlier and found we were down, our apologies. Something funny had happened in the night, and it should all be OK now. Please let us know if you encounter any problems.

You have spoken, and by a narrow margin, you wanted a few more full items on the home page. So be it, five instead of three. We’ll let that settle down before we reassess. Unless there’s something you really, really would like us to change.

A couple of things. Firstly, a reader asked whether we could revert to a previous set-up on our home page, so that all posts were visible in their entirety, rather than having three in full and the rest as a couple of columns of excerpts. “I dislike having to scan sideways and click through to read fairly recent posts,” was the reason.

Well, I don’t dislike that at all. Nor does Luigi. But we live to serve you, our readers. So we’ll do the democracy thing again. There’s a poll on the right; pop on over and vote.

I’ve also implemented threaded comments. ((Should have done it eons ago.)) “Wha,” you ask. It’s just a way of making it easier to respond to a specific comment without all that @Name hipster grooviness. Just click on the Reply button, and WordPress will do the rest. If there’s an outcry, I’ll de-implement it. But I don’t think there will be.