Home Alone + Wet Weather = Website Overhaul

So there I was, on my own with plans to get out on the bike somewhat thwarted by heavy rain showers, and very much at a loose end.  So I took it upon myself to tidy up this website. I've checked over the menu links, which now all seem to be properly functional.  I deleted some that were merely hangovers from a prior incarnation.  A few new menu items were added. In the Main Menu:
  • Recently Played Music - now links to a page with information from my Last.FM page, in turn derived from audioscrobbling from my Squeezebox (so it doesn't include CDs and LPs that I play, not anything I listen to on the iPod
  • Books from my Library - links to a widget from LibraryThing that scans through my library 25 books at a time, randomly selected.  This replaces a sidebar module that used to show books currently being read, but which was usually out of date.
  • About flies&bikes - explains abit about the websites I maintain.
In the Research menu:
  • Recent Publications - properly integrates a feed from an institutional publication repository.
  • Why Study fruit flies? - link now works!
In the Cycling Menu:
  • Links tidied up to point to a new browser window/tab.
  • Added link to the Team Grumpy website.
This may all seem rather insignificant, but it's not only a job that I've been putting off, but some of the pages were quite a fiddle to set up.  In particular embedding the last.fm and LibraryThing widgets required Jumi modules to be embedded in Joomla! articles.
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