By Popular Request…
February 21st 2004
This, my friends, is an update.
Actually, I do have things to say.
First of all, I went on a weekend PR-comm meeting, which was lots of fun and lots of meeting. Both parts were good; we did a lot of planning and talking and more planning, and ate lots of good food.
Secondly, today was a frickin work party here at TH. That actually means, “3 hours of forced manual labor that starts at 8 AM because of a stupid SHB that no one’s going to because they were all up at 8 AM.” That’s called a paradox. 
But I got off easy, sorting through all the computer junk in the basement. We decided that nothing was worth keeping. That did not take a computer savvy person to figure out, but we did a lot of busy testing and debating to make it seem like it did. I was very disappointed that people were made to mow the meadow by the creek — it was very nice and now it’s just a patch of dirt. I guess most people see meadows as overgrown lawns, which, technically, they are; because overgrowth is natural. We just need some deer to keep things in check. Which, by the way, have been by our house before on several occasions. In any case, it was mostly disappointing because all of the outdoor work was completely useless. People cleared out entire areas of greenery for no reason whatsoever, and it was all just to give them something to do. Shame. Though, the indoor work was a good thing; the entire basement has been organized and cleaned.
Third, I have a note about delivery of online purchases. I got two CDs (a couple of David Wilcox’s originals I’ve been searching for for a while) off Barnes and Noble’s web site with a gift card, ordered January 30th. They arrived yesterday. I also ordered a CD (the soundtrack from the movie “Contact”) from one of Amazon.com’s used stores yesterday. It arrived today. The lesson: don’t order things that ship from a warehouse in Pensylvania; order things that ship from a wherehouse in San Fransisco.
I also found a new weblog program called WordPress which I plan on switching to sometime very soon. It’s in PHP, so unlike MovableType, which builds a static site from dynamic templates, WordPress rebuilds the site each time dynamically. It’s a much better model, and much easier to design for if you know PHP. The interface is also slicker and faster, and very CSS and standards oriented. And it imports MovableType, so I get to keep the last year of entries. Expect a new design and faster operation sometime in the next week or so. ::