Hallelujah! So many thanks to Michael, lj, Janie and anybody else who was involved. Days without a check in to ObWi felt weird - I'm so very glad it's back!
2025-09-01 18:02:09
By the way, I should have said: I very strongly support the continued front-paging of the Andrew Olmsted stuff. Even though I first started reading after his time (probably 2008 - hilzoy was still around for quite a while) I read every single thread about him that the front page memorialises, and it seemed (and seems) to me that he, what he represented and the relationship that e.g. hilzoy in particular had with him, was a clue to the intrinsic character of the best of ObWi. So that would be my vote, FWIW.
2025-09-01 13:07:31
lj: thanks for the update. Sounds good.
Michael: thanks! Also, buckwheat pillow arriving tomorrow - here's hoping.
wj: whenever anything of mine goes into spam, if it's important I always post a request for retrieval here, so no need for apology to me!
2025-08-29 20:09:34
That pillow is £136 to order here, and cannot be dispatched for 6 - 7 months! And it looks like our standard size pillows (i.e. which will fit normal UK pillow cases) are a bit smaller, 27.16 inch x 16.92inch versus your 20 x 26 inch. But I think the important thing is the weight of the hulls, the one I am thinking of (as well as being cheaper - around $50) seems to have very good reviews, and says it has 9.25 lbs of hulls in it, versus your one which has 9.75 lbs. In all other respects this one looks pretty good (i.e. with zip so you can add or subtract husks, organic etc etc), so I reckon I will go with this one as a trial, and if it only lasts a couple of years so be it, and I will order again.
2025-08-29 16:11:17
Michael: as well as being a God of Tech, you are now officially an influencer. I have returned new pillows 1 and 2, and am about to order a buckwheat husk pillow. Fingers crossed.
2025-08-27 20:10:35
Speaking (obviously) from a position of total ignorance, I'm nonetheless hoping that all the work Michael did before, when Typepad was going through a particularly erratic phase, means we don't have to lose our whole history. I feel (and I bet I'm not alone) that losing ObWi altogether would be a very sad loss. Clearly, moving us somewhere else will mean a lot of work for somebody who knows how to do it - is there anything the rest of us can do to help?
Hallelujah! So many thanks to Michael, lj, Janie and anybody else who was involved. Days without a check in to ObWi felt weird - I'm so very glad it's back!
By the way, I should have said: I very strongly support the continued front-paging of the Andrew Olmsted stuff. Even though I first started reading after his time (probably 2008 - hilzoy was still around for quite a while) I read every single thread about him that the front page memorialises, and it seemed (and seems) to me that he, what he represented and the relationship that e.g. hilzoy in particular had with him, was a clue to the intrinsic character of the best of ObWi. So that would be my vote, FWIW.
lj: thanks for the update. Sounds good.
Michael: thanks! Also, buckwheat pillow arriving tomorrow - here's hoping.
wj: whenever anything of mine goes into spam, if it's important I always post a request for retrieval here, so no need for apology to me!
That pillow is £136 to order here, and cannot be dispatched for 6 - 7 months! And it looks like our standard size pillows (i.e. which will fit normal UK pillow cases) are a bit smaller, 27.16 inch x 16.92inch versus your 20 x 26 inch. But I think the important thing is the weight of the hulls, the one I am thinking of (as well as being cheaper - around $50) seems to have very good reviews, and says it has 9.25 lbs of hulls in it, versus your one which has 9.75 lbs. In all other respects this one looks pretty good (i.e. with zip so you can add or subtract husks, organic etc etc), so I reckon I will go with this one as a trial, and if it only lasts a couple of years so be it, and I will order again.
Michael: as well as being a God of Tech, you are now officially an influencer. I have returned new pillows 1 and 2, and am about to order a buckwheat husk pillow. Fingers crossed.
Speaking (obviously) from a position of total ignorance, I'm nonetheless hoping that all the work Michael did before, when Typepad was going through a particularly erratic phase, means we don't have to lose our whole history. I feel (and I bet I'm not alone) that losing ObWi altogether would be a very sad loss. Clearly, moving us somewhere else will mean a lot of work for somebody who knows how to do it - is there anything the rest of us can do to help?