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I’ve tinkered with the theme a little and cleaned it up a bit. If you’re reading this from RSS, I invite you to click on through. I had to exercise a lot of willpower not to redesign the entire thing and just tighten some nuts and bolts around here. It looks fine in Firefox 3.6,…

So after what was an endless month of playing Fallout 3, I’m embarking on my next project: packing up my current design into a theme that regular folk can use. It’s hard work, my hat is off to those brave women and men that make WordPress themes for others to use. Here’s what I need…

A lot of goddamn false starts writing blog posts these days. I spent an hour yesterday afternoon positioning my camera so maybe I could do a video blog. I searched around for various household objects that could give me the height I needed so the camera was at least eye level. Then I got vain…

If you’re visiting this blog directly and not via Google Reader, don’t worry. I’ve changed the design a little to address some problems I had. Home page It was weird to have my home page as some sort of summary. After getting used to it, I didn’t like it that much. In having only the…

A 1000-word traipse down a sepia-toned memory lane of HTML.

Please be careful as contents may have shifted during the flight.

I have largely excused myself from updating this blog. I have these ideas to write about but they don’t congeal into a blog post. I get wrapped up thinking about how I would write it, how others would read it and how much time it would waste. Like the great Rands says, “If blogging is…

If you’ll allow me; a declaration. Michael Scott declares bankruptcyI miss The Office. Come back already. I have nothing to post these days so I’m going to take a break. This is not so much news to you as it is to me. I post so infrequently that you won’t even know I’m taking a…

“Just as I’m getting more and more comments from other bloggers, I have run out of blogosoup.” This is what went through my head as I washed the dishes this morning. Then I tried imagining what blogosoup would taste like. What kind of potion could you create to cure writer’s block? Something worth talking about….

Currently my job doesn’t involve interacting with clients or the public at large. But I do wonder what would happen to my blog if I had to take on greater responsibility and become a semi-public figure. The first hit on Google for my name is this blog, the second is my Twitter. That’s a good…

Scratch one New Year’s resolution because my submission to IB went up today. Long-time readers of my blog will already know this post but, personally, I read it over and over again so I’m sure you guys won’t mind reading it one more time. Thanks to Stacy at IB for doing this tough job and…

In today’s crazy anarchist news, it’s National Delurking Week or perhaps it was Delurking Day or something along those lines. A good googling brings up no organization that is committed to generating awareness of this campaign or providing cute/terrible little link buttons for people to paste on to their blogs. In summation: the perpetrators behind…

Ok, so it’s lame but today is January 7 and this is my blog so I’m going to post my New Year’s resolutions. I already did this earlier but these ones are more thought-out and funnier. If you don’t like it then you can go eat a can of worms. I’m going to be very…

I’m going to Japan for two and a half weeks and blogging would be pretty sparse during that time. Ah, who am I kidding. I’ll probably run down to an internet cafe every night after dinner. In my currently hyper-connected life, I usually don’t spend more than 2 hours away from a web page. But…

If you didn’t notice, my blog was down for about 7 hours today because I installed a new version of WordPress without thinking. It was stupid of me to forget to backup my database. Anyway, the breaking thing was the new tag system that is long overdue in WordPress. This change removed a bunch of…

Here are some blog suggestions (blogogestions): Re-post all those old fictional blog posts Audio post where I talk for a few minutes Video post where I stare at the camera (and maybe show some skin) Wait a week and then write a post apologizing for not updating Other ___________________

I updated my blogroll (you know I had one, right?). The page looks kind of like a confused cluster of classified ads. Plentiful paragraphs peppered with repartee. Luminous links amidst a lake of lolling language. Munch. Munch. If I left you out, let me know but understand that I’m not going to link a blog…

Here is the new design. There is not much to say right now but I will probably update this post later. The header photo is this one of a parking garage somewhere a few miles south of downtown Seattle. Hopefully I’ll rotate out the header image when I take more interesting photos that work in…

DID YOU KNOW? Potatoes are actually a rich source of Vitamin P, known more commonly as the Potato Vitamin. Benefits of this vitamin include feeling less hungry and reducing one’s craving for potatoes. It does produce a notable side effect of making one more gullible towards false medical advice. Sunset, American Flag and July Fourth.Happy…

So, like I said, this design ain’t working. And I thought, what about a two-column design? I like the links that I post and I’d hate for them to be ignored so they should have a prominent position. Plus there are a lot of them so they’ll take up a lot of space. On the…

Ok, I’ve very obviously made a mistake in this latest blog design. Because it’s a pain in the ass to read the front page. I had no idea I would link to so much (really good) shit. Any ideas?

It’s black, it’s green. There is big text over there. Most importantly of all: the links are back, baby. I am sure you all missed them, I know I did. I liked sharing links with people. For the first time ever, these links have comments associated so you can write a little about what you…

I have been up to my eyeballs in WordPress lately. And I just want to get a few things off my chest. Theme support is awesomeboat The amount of customization permitted by WordPress is amazing now. Even before adding plug-ins, you can do a lot of things design-wise. I don’t know when someone added all…

Welcome to Version 6 of this blog. I have nicknamed the design, “Good Jack”. As of November 2006, I’m running on Typo 4.0.3. I wouldn’t recommend anyone else run Typo though. It’s still a bit immature and you are better off running a steady workhorse like WordPress. B&W Photographs The photographs used in the header…