Month: December 2007

Over the year I’ve seen a number of domain names that I was interested in get picked up by someone else and often wondered what’s to stop someone or some bot (perhaps at the whois/registrar site itself) from scanning people’s searches for domain names and registering them. After all, those searches at minimum appear in… Continue reading Domian name paranoia

I promised to post fiction and get this blog "revitalized". I will! I’m working on it! It just got busy during the holiday time, as it tends to do. Part of that revitalization is redesigning the site, cutting out the needless stuff and going with a more minimal design. Really minimal. Basically I want to… Continue reading There’s more coming

First there was a full moon on my birthday and then there was a fireball on Christmas Eve. (Wish I’d seen that.) I hope everyone’s Christmas was nearly as eventful. Merry Christmas!

Interesting to note that today is the full moon… my birthday. I don’t remember having a full moon fall on my birthday before, though I’m sure it must have at some point. It’s also the northernmost full moon of the year. Besides that, we (Earth) are passing as close as we’re going to get to… Continue reading There’s a full moon on my birthday

We popped the DVD of "The Incredibles" in for the kids tonight, and I swear, I can’t not watch it when it’s on. "The Incredibles" is pretty much at the top of my list for the best superhero movie out there. While it’s tough to pin down exactly what makes it so good—I mean, they… Continue reading Superhero movies

This is one of the (few) completed stories I’ve written, and it’s mostly polished for my liking, though I tend to tinker with it from time to time. (Bad habit, that.) It’s also short, about 2244 words in length. The title? Ah, the title. When I first wrote this (way back in a creative writing… Continue reading Fiction: Untitled (complete)

This article is all kinds of awesome. I never thought I’d see the day. The Commodore 64 is 25 years old this year. Kind of shocking, really.

So here’s the deal. It’s blindingly obvious that I haven’t devoted much time to this blog in quite a while, even though I consider this site my "main" identity on the web. Part of it is blog fatigue, part of it is all my best ideas these days are related to my other blogs, part… Continue reading The one in which I start something new

We went and picked up our Christmas tree today, and ended up getting a seven foot Grand Fir from the Tom’s Trees lot downtown, right across the street from the Franklin Crossing building (and next to El Caporal). Good trees—I like Tom’s Trees, they always have good ones—but the weather left the experience somewhat less… Continue reading Christmas tree