Link Whore

Dave and I have a new column in the February issue of The Lawrencian. It's about gay people and computers. Well, specifically about Macs and PCs and gays and straights.

Go read it now.

That is all.

Andrewlanche

I got an incoming link by Andrew Sullivan who shares my lukewarm reception of I Am Legend. This is probably the most people who have been by my blog since the olden days, when it was hand-written on papyrus or something.

Some of today's visitors have left some really good comments on the Legend post below, so go read 'em if you haven't already.

Anyway, welcome, and watch out for zombies.

The long month

Sunset over the Lake of the Ozarks

June was a long, hard month, filled with a combintation of difficult events, including the passing of my grandmother and Tova suffering an bout of severe illness that required extended hospitalization. Add to that the fact that I spent over a week during the month traveling on business and it seems like there was almost no time to catch my breath or do much of anything.

Still, June is finally over, and July, at least, has started off well. Tova is healthy again, and Dave and I just got back from a relaxing week with the family in the Lake of the Ozarks, where I got to spend quality time with my family and my niece and nephew. My father bought a new toy for the family, which we thoroughly enjoyed too!

Anyway, I am back in Lawrence now, and hopefully I may even start posting regularly again.

I read stuff

Check out the link on the right side of this blog. Now you can automatically know what perverse and un-American claptrap I am currently reading, conveniently ready to be copy and pasted into a report for Homeland Security.

Fun with Blogger Templates

Please pardon the mess as I experiment with blogger templates and the look and feel of this blog...I've made a backup of the old template, so I can always go back if I need to!

The answer is true

I am testing some of bloggers new features. Hopefully this post will have a nice looking title and a comments page that works.

I upgraded my Blogger account

I finally switched to Blogger's "new" gmail-based system, which is now out of beta. I figured I would give it a whirl, but I am not too optimistic about the legendary glitchiness of Blogger being fixed. This morning, for the first time in two weeks I made a post to my blog, and for two hours Blogger wasn't allowing me to publish. I am this close to switching to WordPress; I probably would have switched already, but WordPress doesn't allow for publishing to custom domains unless you (a) pay them and (b) give them DNS control of the domain, which means you can't use it for anything else.

It's not like I have been writing much here, but I want to get back into the swing of things and starts hitting this thing regularly, so at the minimum it would be nice to be able to depend on my blog solution you know, actually working when I want to use it.

So for now I will probably stay with Blogger...and who knows how long "for now" is?