…Like, for instance, the fact that Trader Joe’s sells Laphroaig and other fine single malt Scotches in California, at reasonably-reduced prices, no less. Trader Joe’s. Stupid PA liquor laws. Of course, the largest StateCommonwealth store in my area happens to…
It seems that I have a friendly spamstalker named “Wendy!” who is intent upon giving me a laugh or two for free. “Wendy!” seemingly æschews the traditional mass list of pharmacological, adult-oriented and “all-natural” male “enhancement” spam fare and instead…
I took the plunge and upgraded Literal Barrage to WordPress 2.1 on Thursday I’ve been slowly picking away at the transition, re-enabling plugins, moving old artwork, etc. over. I know there are a bunch of things that still don’t work…
Wired News is currently running a piece regarding the proliferation of “Submit my blog entry to…” buttons that have been cropping up hither and yon on blogs of every stripe. The number and proliferation of said buttons is indeed getting…
I’ve been messing about with Firebug, a web development extension for Firefox. The site itself does a much better job of explaining FB than I ever could, so I would direct you over there for definitive information. At base, FB…
Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of the entire WordPress project and founder of Automattic has redesigned his blog after logging about 3 years-worth of use on his old design. I must say, it looks great and makes my pitiful redesign attempts…
I check my Akismet queue each morning and note, usually with some amusement, the lengths to which spammers seem to be going in order to try to hawk their pornography, stock “tips” and manhood-enhancing wares on my site. Some opt…
That’s right, baby, I’m on my 5th revision (version 4, since all good computer scientists start counting at zero, of course) of my blog. Long time readers will likely recall the previous incarnations and, if you’ll excuse me a brief…
I dropped my wife and child off at the Philadelphia airport this morning at 6:45, meaning that I had to get up at the unholy time of 4:30. The reason for the early departure time? Our assistant pastor graciously offered…
I know, I know, I didn’t post anything all day. As a form of repayment, please accept these songs from Enter the Haggis, the world-famous techno-Celtic-jazz-bluegrass combo. [audio:Enter_The_Haggis-Scotland_the_Brave_Hava_Nagila.mp3,Enter_the_Haggis-Another_Round.mp3] (They’ll be playing Scotchtoberfest in Bethelehem at the end of this month,…
