release

I’ve upgraded Release to Wordpress 2.01 today. I expect few, if any, issues, but feel free to send feedback if anything breaks.
The new theme was a whim with the upgrade. I expect to change it before long.

Blame Tom for the tagging by implication.
Four Jobs I’ve Had

Food Service Drone: I won’t say where, but I’ll never eat there again.
Attorney General: Florida State had a very well-developed student government - I got paid and everything.
Congressional Aide: underpaid, underutilized, but once you get outside the Beltway it definitely [...]

The front page has a new look and a whole bunch more functionality. It used to be a menu and nothing more; now the menu is moved to the side to allow for all kinds of content. The page now features:

The latest headlines from this weblog
A short description of the page
My recent posts [...]

I’m in what seems to be a tiny minority when I say that I use Kinja as my primary newsfeed reader. I’ve preferred it to other methods for a few reasons.
First, I like that it’s web-based. I read weblogs and news sources from at least three different systems: my laptop, my [...]

When I code up a new web page, I frequently rely on the world’s largest repository of CSS reference materials - tha Intarweb. This evening I was Googling for techniques on using CSS to pin a footer at the bottom of a web page, I stumbled across the following article at, of all godforsaken [...]

Sometime last July, the Movable Type setup that powered every weblog on our various domains went belly up. All logins failed, password retrievals failed… the database appeared to be empty. But the database was still there, and still flush with all that data. Logging into the web server and running “strings” [...]

Five years on, one year off.