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Feed The Burn

I started blogging back in 2001 primarily as a hobby and have continued doing so to this day. At times, I’ve considered adding ads to the site in order to try to recoup some of the costs associated with hosting…

Testing Vanilla

There’s been a lot of buzz surrounding Vanilla lately, including Michael Heilman moving his forums over to the Vanilla platform. What is Vanilla? In short, it’s an Open Source forum framework that seeks to reenvision the forum/bulletin board concept. It…

Under Construction

Literal Barrage -is- Under Construction First off, Happy New Year, to my faithful readers. Sorry for the inconvenience, folks. Figured the New Year was as good a time as any to do some sorely-needed updates/upgrades, so the blog’s down for…

By Way Of An Explanation

Posting today has been light due to two occurences: A “network problem” that brought down much of the Dreamhost network this morning. The arrival of my Palm TX handheld. The TX is nice, very nice – I’ve been monkeying around…

*BUURRRRP* ‘Scuse Me.

Sorry for the slow access/downtimes this morning. I’m unsure of what was going on, but it seems as if the entire Dreamhost system was unreachable for a bit there. Hopefully things have returned to normal (access seems a bit slow,…

Poor Blog Parenting

With so much going on these past few weeks, I’ve been neglectful in getting my blog “children” off the ground, so much so that I even forgot to mention that Andy(I)’s blog is now online, and has been for some…

Site Comings And Goings

Good news, everyone! With the host switch complete, I decided that it might be a good time to start sharing the wealth, as it were. I went from a hard limit of 1GB of files and 70GB of transfer/month on…