Here are a couple of Christmas-related observations: 1) As an Atheist, I’ve been trying to figure out what to say to people who tell me, “Merry Christmas.” I could say, “Happy Holidays,” or “Season’s Greetings,” but they really don’t express an obviously religion-free point of view. After some thought (note, that’s “some thought,” not “much…

Friday Funday brings you some fun and interesting links from my travels around the internet. Funday links will open in a new window. It’s time for a Christmas theme! Don’t Shoot Your Eye Out! [del.icio.us] If you’ve never seen the movie, for goodness sake, see it this year (even if it’s re-enacted by bunnies)! And…

Because we don’t blog about the place we don’t blog about, I’ll point you to this blog/newspaper article instead, which does a really nice job of explaining why the place we don’t blog about is in the right, and Time Warner is… Well, I usually state my crystal-clear opinions, but this time I’ll let you…

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death. When I was fifteen, I was in an airport on holiday with my family. We were headed to Florida to visit my grandmother. While we were waiting around, I glanced up at a television monitor that was tuned to CNN. We miss you, Carl.

On Thursday of last week, I received an e-mail from a co-worker that had one of those Animusic videos attached to it. It was a .wmv file that was about 4MB in size. In the e-mail, which was addressed to ten people besides me, he apologised for attaching a file that large. Since I had…

Today I received an e-mail from someone whose identity I shan’t reveal. She asked me the following: “What do you do when a catholic person likes you, and you might like him? I CAN NOT do the whole god-fearing-critters thing! Help, please. You said something about the whole catholic thing with [Morah], I thought you…

Well, I think I’ve finally made it to the new server. It took a lot of switching back and forth for me to get everything I needed, but as far as I can tell, I’m done. Most everything should work just as it did before. If something fails or seems weird, let me know and…

Tomorrow (Monday) is the big day; and not a moment too soon! Friday and Saturday have been the worst days so far for comment spam. On Friday, spammers left thirteen bogus comments! That’s the worst day so far. Yesterday, there were seven. Tomorrow morning I’m going to back up the database, upload the interim index…

Well, I hit my first major speed bump regarding the server switch. When I set everything up on the old server, I set alifelessordinary.com as the “master” domain on the account. On the same server as ALLO, I host another site. I realised that if ALLO is no longer on this server, I won’t be…

It’s time to switch to the new server. I’ve been putting this off for months because of the wedding, but now that it’s over, I really need to get this done before I put it off again. The update will happen in two parts. Part one entails moving to a new server. That means updating…