You notice that submitting the search form with nothing in it sends you to a broken home page.

There are all sorts of madnesses touted to fix this involving modifying the core wordpress [...]]]> OK, so you have a site. It’s not set up like a blog, so you don’t have a blog or posts page.

You notice that submitting the search form with nothing in it sends you to a broken home page.

There are all sorts of madnesses touted to fix this involving modifying the core wordpress code, which is a terrible idea given how often it updates.

stick this in your functions and ¡presto pronto! all better. This will just send you to your search page and show everything with a space in it..

add_filter( 'request', 'my_request_filter' );
function my_request_filter( $query_vars ) {
if( isset( $_GET['s'] ) && empty( $_GET['s'] ) ) {
$query_vars['s'] = " ";
}
return $query_vars;
}

I am so puntastic it hurts.

i think we overbaked the last ballista barrage

i wonder who is in there?

1. Lunchtime (i.e. <1hr)

2. Based upon a provided topic (you may suggest one)

2. Based upon a topic that appeared in my head

3. MUST DO ONE EVERY DAY

4. Rules are for wimps

GO

Here, a selection of recent doodlings:

A danger? [...]]]> Daily Doodles are almost certainly created under the following restrictions:

1. Lunchtime (i.e. <1hr)

2. Based upon a provided topic (you may suggest one)

2. Based upon a topic that appeared in my head

3. MUST DO ONE EVERY DAY

4. Rules are for wimps

GO

Here, a selection of recent doodlings:

A danger? A biscuit? A DANGER

it weren't me you can't prove nuffink

A biscuit. And a dance. Do me a dance, bitch.

ahm a ANGREH FRETTEH

What _would_ Patrick McGoohan do?

Should probably get a tumblr for shit like this

no i don't want to 'play' with it what sort of madness is that? Go away so i can hide it, nowplease.

There is a search engine, for Jack Vance’s entire body of work.  TOTALITY, “The Vance Vocabulary Search Tool’.

I can now say that ‘nuncupatory’ was used 11 times in total, and ‘punctilio’, 33.  I find this immensely pleasing.

‘Krim drew himself up to his full height. He spoke [...]]]> How did I never know about this??

There is a search engine, for Jack Vance’s entire body of work.  TOTALITY, “The Vance Vocabulary Search Tool’.

I can now say that ‘nuncupatory’ was used 11 times in total, and ‘punctilio’, 33.  I find this immensely pleasing.

‘Krim drew himself up to his full height. He spoke severely. “I object to that entire imputation, sir; it is irrelevant, prejudicial and nuncupatory. Further, no grounds have been laid.”‘

Although, I tried ‘moue’ – which only returned 1 record. This seems wrong. I’m pretty sure Madouc was fond of the odd moué.

You can only search for words returning less than 50 results. Otherwise you will see this rather charming error message.

Too many results (more than 50). Your question is nuncupatory.

Please refine your query. Adding a leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each row that is returned.
examples:

+Cugel +beer -Bunderwal
“question is nuncupatory”

Original with Waterman fountain pen and Noodler’s Bulletproof Black.

Two versions, digitally coloured and with paper [...]]]> Trying to do a doodle a day. Last night’s, based upon a small person with a penchant for pirates and princesses turned out pretty fun, so I thought I’d have a play with this digital colouring malarkey.

Original with Waterman fountain pen and Noodler’s Bulletproof Black.

Two versions, digitally coloured and with paper backgrounds I scrounged from the intertubes.

I used a new plugin for creating the ink overlay for colouring under which is pretty handy, I mean you can desaturate, set to multiply and adjust the opacity – or just apply this filter – it’s free and you can get it here

The final inked version (with drawing inks).  Delivered with laserjet copies of the line drawing for personalised colouring in funs. The exciting string on the packaging was a BIG HIT.

View larger versions on my flickr feed