Spam is a fact of life on the internet…thank $diety for filters and moderation queues; they make maintenance a lot easier. Of course, blog admin tools have the unfortunate side effect of presenting moderated comments out of the context of the post they’re attached to. Some of them are really actually quite flattering, giving me [...]

Things are looking an awful lot like that other weekend. “Highly Strung” – Orianthi & Steve Vai “Stuck in a Movie” – The Aquabats “A Certain Romance” – Arctic Monkeys “I’ll Give You My Skin” – Indigo Girls (feat. Michael Stipe) “Kiss Me On The Bus” – The Replacements “You Really Gotta Hold On Me” [...]

Looking at my hit stats for the last month or so, I’m getting a bunch of unfamiliar hits (most of it seems related to all the Doctor Who blogging I’ve been doing lately) from people I’m not necessarily expecting, so I though it might be a good time to sort of re-introduce myself, for what [...]

Are you all sitting comfortably? Good. Now, a couple of programming notes about site functionality: ♦ – I dumped the guestbook application; it had collected nothing but spam ads for valtrex, handbags, and penis enlargement for most of the last year, and honestly, I didn’t feel like dealing with it anymore. So, good riddance. If [...]

My head and creative muscles are in a somewhat different, distant place right now, between a new project phase at work, my electing to jump headlong into NaNoWriMo, and a few other things not worth mentioning. That said, posts here might be thin on the ground here for a while*. It’s not that I don’t [...]

I haven’t played this in a while; I think it’s time. Here are a sampling of the search terms that have brought people to this humble web site over the past couple of weeks, presented without comment, because I don’t feel like coming up with jokes (and most of them are innocuous examples of how [...]

For the last couple of months, I’ve been rather lax in checking out the back-end stuff around this little disused alcove of the internet. In the last day or two, I rectified that, and saw some things worth changing; nothing major that anybody’s ever going to notice, but just in case, I shall share. Thing [...]

Today is the 200th birthday of English naturalist

As many of you know, I haven’t had cable service for a couple of years; it got too expensive for my viewing habits and level of service to justify. We’ve been subsisting on a set of rabbit ears and a big DVD collection ever since. Now, in February ’09, the government’s mandated that conventional analog [...]

Family and Friends: In the last couple of days, you might have gotten a really convincing-looking “breaking news” email from MSNBC or CNN; even if you haven’t signed up for CNN or MSNBC news alert emails… A word of warning about these emails; They’re completely and utterly bogus, and if you follow the links they [...]