Housekeeping
Some blog housekeeping… I accidentally broke some of my older St. Rose images when I was reorganizing my site the other day. Oops. Sorry to anyone who tried to look at those recently. They’re fixed...
View ArticleFun with Search Terms
One thing my web server tracks is what search terms people used when they found my site through a search engine. These are kind of interesting to look through. Sometimes they can provide writing...
View ArticleAlmost Back to Normal
Wow, I don’t blog for three days, and my traffic climbs each day! I’m not sure it’s a good sign if your blog is at its most popular when you’re not writing. Anyway, the big project that’s been keeping...
View ArticleToo Early
I woke up at 2:00am, too groggy to do any serious work for long, so I might as well get a blog post in. My latest Latin Lesson is up, #11 on adverbs and the perfect tense. After about 6-10 more...
View ArticleMonday Morning Hangover
photo from flickr.com I’m not really hungover; all I drank at the bar last night was water. But I’m tired, achy, and sort of foggy and slow, so most of the same symptoms are there except for the...
View ArticleFriday Again
Harvested the third small batch of radishes today. With all the moisture they’re getting, they seem noticeably bigger every day, so I’m not just picking little ones to thin them anymore. Here’s a...
View ArticleWebmaster’s Musings
I’ve probably said this before, but blogging is a strange business. Running any web site is, really. When I was in the pizza delivery business, sales traffic was pretty straightforward. We’d open at...
View ArticleOops
I finally moved my blog a few days ago, and I checked it seven different ways to make sure everything was working and links from the old site would redirect to the new one—but I forgot to check the old...
View ArticleBetter Blogging
Something that bums me out about blogging (and makes it easy to blow off) is the lack of real conversations. On Usenet, you can pick a group like rec.games.bridge and find a bunch of conversations...
View ArticleSurge
Blogging is such a random thing sometimes. You can write a long dissertation on some topic you think is critical and get nothing but crickets chirping in the comments area; but then a one-off joke or...
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