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Man, you really never know what you’re going to get from Amazon.com. In reality, this is a test-post from within flickr. I’ve joined recently, and started playing around. Now I’ll have 3 levels of pictures. Everything I take is on my hard drive. Things that I think worth sharing at all will be in my gallery and things that I think are quite good and may deserve a larger audience will show up in my flickr stream.

It was one year ago today that I started blogging. This would be a good time for self-reflection on what’s changed in the past year. However, one of the things that’s changed in the past year, has me up at 3:00 AM warming up formula to feed her, and so I’m too woozy from need of sleep to be introspective. Maybe something more appropriate will come to me during nap time later in the day.

I don’t think he reads my blog, at least not with any regularity, but yesterday my brother-in-law IM’ed me this URL: a newsgroup I posted to in 1991, in which I discuss a variety of topics from the LPMud I was helping run at the time, to the future of VR, to teledildonics — all on a thread started by Howard Rheingold. Does anything on the internet ever really die? Who reads a nntp://sci.

It’s been a while since I’ve stumbled across something on the web that made me chuckle quite like “stuff on my cat”. I was looking for new themes for wordpress, because when I get stuck on what I’m working on, it’s easier to fantasize about how my blog could look than fix whatever is stumping me at the moment. One link lead to another lead to stuff on my cat. Of course, they claim to be mentioned in GQ and several other magazines, so it’s hardly a discovery.

I had been using wordpress as managed by the Ubuntu package management system. This had caused a little bit of trouble because of the way it handled (or didn’t handle) multiple installations. It more recently became even more trouble because it has PHP4 as a requirement, but I wanted to install something else that had PHP5 as a requirement. I’m pretty sure that wordpress will do just fine under PHP5, but it would have been auto-un-installed with the move from PHP4 to PHP5.

I’ve added more pictures to Sam’s album: “http://gallery2.accapehart.com/v/People/babycapehart/”:http://gallery2.accapehart.com/v/People/babycapehart/ The new stuff begins on “page 4”:http://gallery2.accapehart.com/v/People/babycapehart/?g2_page=4 . Also, a friend of mine who’s also a Live Journal user has set up a LJ version of my blog feed. That way, LJ users can read it from within LJ, and even “friend” it for easier access. The Live Journal URL for this blog is: “http://www.livejournal.com/users/choicywhiteboy/”:http://www.livejournal.com/users/choicywhiteboy/

I was at PSU Altoona recently running errands and managed to see a few people. I was impressed by the number of people who are up to date on what’s going on with Carolyn, Sam and myself based on reading my blog. It’s still disarming when there are people in France (Salut Peggy, Salut Tara) who know more details about the birth of my child than my own parents. I am also amused by who does and doesn’t read my blog on campus.

There are a couple of things I’m tempted to do/start with this blog. The first is to make it my home page. I don’t think there’s any content on the home page that’s not (or couldn’t be) on this page. And why come to a mostly dead home page when the life is going on underneith? I’m also tempted to start a section (or at least a category) called “Other people’s stories.