Miscelleanous

This month brings another new revision. I’ve started moving towards the new 4.0 version of Movable Type, the software that powers this blog/site/fiasco. As such, there’s a lot to be gained from the new back end stuff in the new version, so I decided to start from scratch and redo my templates and themes. This […]

You know how it is when you get songs stuck in your head, and you can’t get rid of them, right? Sometimes you luck out and you get a song you like, and it’s not so bad. Most of the time it’s something you don’t like, and the only way I’ve found to get rid […]

My company has had a pinball machine in its offices for about a decade. It’s a really great machine called “Scared Stiff“. The theme is based around the character “Elvira: Mistress of the Dark”. As with most pinball machines, you can’t really get them anymore. Shame that they’re becoming such a rare thing. Anyways, since […]

You ever get so tired that your eyes hurt, and your body is aching, and your mind says “Look fool, go to sleep”, as your brain registers that it’s 2:30AM? But you’re not in the least tired? That’s where I am now. I should be asleep, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. […]

As you can see by reading this, I’ve had a major overhaul to my blog. While I was happy with the old look I had, there recently was a contest by Six Apart (the people who make the blog software) for folks to make new design layouts for the software. This contest is over, and […]

As I sit here waiting for UPS to show up with my packages (all three of which are marked as “out for delivery”), I think this.. Why can’t we have real tracking information? Their existing tracking information should be able to tell which truck a package is in. Slap a GPS machine in each UPS […]

Steve Martin joke aside, two days ago, we got a bunch of new phone books delivered to the house. That’s no big deal, I’ve been seeing phone books at the house for as long as I can remember (and even one disasterous time Lynn and I delivered them, too!). Anyway, I left them there because […]

Last Thursday a new version of this blog software was released. I won’t bore you with the details of what’s new, as most of it isn’t of any interest to you, the reader. What is important is that I’ve decided to take this time to revamp the look of my blog. The backend code that […]