I've barely touched the site in a year, largely because I hated the way it looked. I tried out a million and one Wordpress themes and they all seemed canned, ugly, and fussy. To make matters worse, they were all ...Read More
I've been getting a rash of comment SPAM lately, so I've added a plug-in to the blog application that's updated the "Comments" entry pages with challenge questions.
The mechanism should be pretty simple: just do what the challenge question ...Read More
I've updated from Wordpress 1.6 to Wordpress 2.1.2. My webhost mandated that I update my blog software as part of a PHP upgrade. Everything seems to be OK. I think. Let me know if there are ...Read More
A new quote has been added to the footer of the site: "You sunk like a Quarterback, collapsed in the Superdome."
It is taken from the song "Collapsed in the Superdome", which appears on Oranger's The Quiet Vibration Land ...Read More
What Grinds My Gears
Find out what's grinding Sid (and company's) gears lately. If you like Svenllama.com, you'll enjoy this. They're always looking for new bloggers, so if you're interested in complaining about things that aren't complained about ...Read More
A link to the newly-revived Sour Bob has been added to the Links page. As of this writing, he has not added his archives to the new site, but hopefully they will be up soon. When he gets ...Read More
I've made it a movie-renting priority over the past few years to see the entire Woody Allen canon. I'm a little less than halfway there. Partly to help keep track of what I've seen, and partly as an ...Read More
The Random Quote list from the old frontpage has been migrated to the new site. And in the process, I've added two new ones:
Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ.
Drop your delivery, hold still and look him ...Read More
The migration of content from the old site continues at a pretty nice clip. The business of customizing the look and feel of all this really has barely gotten underway, but I hope to have a fully-functioning (albeit rather ...Read More
And so, we begin again. I have installed a new site-management tool (WordPress), which is much easier to use and much more feature-rich than the old tool (Greymatter). Greymatter was good, but it was slow to update, difficult ...Read More