Illuminatea

How wonderfully frustrating, in a minor way.Last night, I upgraded from Community Server 1.1 to 2.0, which offers tons of new features, better performance, a hugely improved administrative interface, a better skinning model -- in short, lots of crunchy goodness. Had a few minutes of panic trying to figure out why picture galleries weren't ...

Thanks to net.friend larabeaton (from back in my rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan days, back when I still read Robert Jordan) I ran across this tender musical moment from Australian comedy group Tripod. This one was funny because it was a bulls-eye; even though I don't own a gaming console, I all too often find plenty of things to occupy my ...

Can you still call it a s'more when: You're using Nutella instead of chocolate squares You're using pre-sized graham cracker squares You're using a propane grill to toast the marshmellows While we may not know the ultimate answer, we Washington Gangers are firmly committed to further research in as many upcoming evenings as possible. We ...

(Blog note: I've switched skins. I ditched the other one because a) it used a dark background, which looks dramatic until you have to read text on it and b) it behaved badly under Mozilla/Firefox.) I have a few blogs I read on a daily basis. While many of them are technical and work-related, there are many that aren't. For example: Wil ...

So why did I decide I needed my own blog? How come LiveJournal wasn't enough? Well, I'm not terribly keen on LiveJournal's interface, to tell the truth. I like having categories, since I write about a lot of different things. I like that you, the reader, have the choice to only read certain posts that interest you instead of the boring ones ...