Category Archives: Musings

Random Norse wisdom department

A Friday quote from one of my favorite ancient texts, the Hávamál:
Young was I once, I walked alone,
and bewildered seemed in the way;
then I found me another and rich I thought me,
for man is the joy of man.

Aggregating aggregators

My recent rewiring of Tribblescape to use Movable Type has introduced me to all kinds of fun technology. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve discovered enough ways to waste time online to keep me unproductive well into the next decade.

I’ve been trying to find a good way to keep my Web browsing time to [...]

MMORPG Betty Ford Clinic

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve received mail from a couple of MMORPGs that I used to play (EverQuest and Anarchy Online), offering to give me 30 days of free game play on my old accounts. This is tantamount to offering free crack to a recovered addict, or a “small drink for old-times’ sake” [...]

The CMS that ate New York

HTML acronym tagging

Goodbye, Mr. Rogers

We are go for blogging

First post

This is my first posting to the new blog. It even has a link in it to my favorite CLIÉ page.

Dreamhost took considerably longer than the advertised “one hour” to get the MySQL database (within which this blog’s entries are stored) online, which is why this post is at such an obscene hour of the [...]