Journaling, photos, letters home, and other little mementos to remember me by.
Hope one and all had excellent Thanksgivings. Allow us all to move in to Black Friday with even heads. That being said, a couple of recent discoveries: Cold River vodka — an all-Maine vodka out of a micro-distillery up here. (Very tasty.) Ikusansai — not sure if that’s spelled correctly (remotely…) but it’s a Japanese […]
“The Bad Lieutenant” is an interesting article about video game violence by Clive Thompson: Consider our gaming history […] anti-gaming critics didn’t really explode with indignation until Grand Theft Auto 3 came along — the first massively popular modern game where the tables turned, and you finally played as a cop-killing thug. […] Why weren’t […]
Sorry for the downtime, folks… In trying to troubleshoot why I wasn’t able to use mysqldump in a cron job, the perms on the user got hosed. So… no DB connection, no blog. /doh – – Gave up on that route at least for the time being. Don’t want to sacrifice too much uptime here… […]
Forget thieves and blackhats out there pilfering your SSNs, credit card numbers, and all that. Put your fear in the very same institutions that legitimately ask for, need, and SSL your info. A couple years ago I’d had a problem with a particular bank. We’d signed up through MS Money to auto-sync the account details. […]
WordPress migration (more/less) complete. Some minor tweaking here and there to get things “just right” but I think this one will stick long-term. We’d just out-grown what Blogger could do for us around here. Needed something more powerful, more flexible, and less prone to flaking out. currently playing: Depeche Mode “Dream On”
Took the evening off and categorized the early posts all the way back to ’03. (Not that bad, actually – – I did that while watching Kung Pow…) There’s still a bit to do though: blogroll port over scripts.js esp. w/r/t/ inserting the oblique strategies here adapt old Blogger CSS styles to the new format […]
This is a test post… Here is what we looked like earlier tonight… (Chicken and egg question: Is my insomnia from this? Or is this something to do because of insomnia?) TO DO: get the new styles as in-line with the old as possible (esp. since I’d just so recently put so much work in […]
We here at F_D are thinking of flipping the switch and giving WordPress a shot. Our growing(?) needs seem to insist upon it. So if we’re blank or otherwise ambiguous in the next 24-72 hours, please excuse the mess. currently playing: Tears For Fears “Head Over Heels”
This post is one of those gems that simply needs reiteration: Not that beer and the future are incompatible, heaven help us if they were, but it’s not just cell phones. Clothes, music, a whole generation of young people who, like people who think nothing of heading off to another country for a weekend techno […]
A has update her site a little. Burned it down, started fresh. Can’t say that I hold it entirely against her. The Google panopticon scares the living shit out of me too some days. I’ll save my admiration for that irony for another time. This weekend I’ll turn 26 and am kind of flat about […]