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…tick, tick, tick… For various reasons, this is a bad time to be starting a new project, but I had been planning to do this for quite a while. I’ve written a little about work and software development here, but The Phantom City never seemed to be the most appropriate place. So, for those ideas, I present The Clockwork Mind! I really need to get back into writing more, and hopefully one blog will inspire the other. On most subjects, I’ll be here. On programming, software development, and management, I’ll be over there. ...

…It rises from the crypt, seeking to take vengeance upon those who left it for dead! Okay, really, I just restored The Phantom City from the most recent personal backups I could find to bring it out of its 2.5-year slumber. My previous “lifetime” hosting was for the lifetime of the company, not my own, and even though another company valiantly jumped in at the last minute to honour those plans, my server was one of the few that couldn’t be successfully transferred before the shutdown. ...

I got married to the best person in the world. Happy anniversary, Lorrie!

Seems like a lot of these floating around right now. I got tagged by Too Many Topics, Too Little Time. It was originally seven things, but I decided to modify it a little to see what happens. The rules: 1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. 2. Share seven (and a half) facts about yourself in the post. 3. Tag seven (and a half) people at the end of your post by leaving their names. 4. Let them know they’ve been tagged. ...

This meme is wandering around on Facebook, but I thought I’d copy it here just to stay true to my old dislike of walled gardens like Facebook. (Even though I check it every day.) Anyway, it’s a list of sixteen things people might not know about you. I can do this, because there are at least sixteen things even I don’t know about me. 1. When I was young, my mom used to send the cat upstairs to wake me up in the mornings. That worked the 50% of the time the cat decided he wanted the bed to himself. ...

If you go to this site to rate your own blog, take a look at the results code before you paste it in. Mine had a link to a cash advance site. Link courtesy of the ACC Basketblog.

It are these people’s birthday too: Sir Christopher Wren, English architect John Dewey, American philosopher Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor Jelly Roll Morton, American composer Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer Tom Petty, American musician Scott Hall, American professional wrestler Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader Snoop Dogg, American rapper As well as these two who are exactly as old as me: Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author On this day, by the BBC and The New York Times. ...

I just upgraded to release 2.3 for WordPress, named “Dexter.” Seems to have run pretty smoothly, and the new release has a plugin checker that lets you know about the latest versions of your plugins. (Also, integrated tagging! Which I might use at some point, maybe.) However, just in case you run into the same error I did, mentioning the non-existence of the “post2cat” table, upgrade your Google Sitemap plugin. The plugin checker doesn’t recognize there is a new version yet, and the older one isn’t entirely compatible with Dexter. ...

That’s probably about right, although I’ve been known to be an INTJ depending on the day.