For anyone looking at other weblogging software (Jake), this is really good: Blog Software Breakdown. It has a fantastic chart of features on ten popular weblog packages. This chart displays attributes of different user-installed blog software packages side-by-side for comparison. Only server-installed scripts will be included in this list. (Sorry, no Radio, Blogger, etc.) Via… Continue reading Blog software chart
Author: Jon
Matrix Cheat Codes
At work today a couple of us were jokingly speculating as to what earlier versions of The Matrix would be like—or, more accurately, what we would imagine they’d be like—and I came up with Half-Life. Basically, imagine the Matrix v1 as a first-person shooter. Makes perfect sense! All they essentially do in the Matrix is… Continue reading Matrix Cheat Codes
Recipe: Graham cracker chicken
This is a recipe I came up with recently for my wife: Graham cracker chicken. Ingredients (per chicken breast): 1 boneless, skinless chicken breast 3 squares of graham crackers 1 tsp. sugar ¼ tsp. salt Dash nutmeg 1 tbsp. yellow mustard 1 tsp. honey Dash lemon juice Drop of vanilla Optional: grated cheese (parmesan will… Continue reading Recipe: Graham cracker chicken
Random thoughts
Ever since someone at work talked about VH1‘s “50 Worst Rock Songs” special, with “We Built this City” as the number one worst, I’m having a hard time getting that song out of my head. Why is it anymore that when Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has a celebrity guest star (which seems quite… Continue reading Random thoughts
Mystery beers
Part of getting ready to move next month is not only packing things up, but also disposing of excess homebrewed beer that’s been around for a while. And by “disposing of” I of course mean “drinking.” Some thoughts on these beers. The oldest I have in the fridge right now is a porter I brewed… Continue reading Mystery beers
Bird
Ever had a bird get stuck in your chimney and get out via the fireplace? We did, tonight. (Although we have a wood stove and not a true fireplace.) How the bird got in the chimney, I don’t know; I imagine it must have fallen in, but I didn’t think birds were that clumsy. At… Continue reading Bird
MT Comment
What with the current brouhaha over Movable Type‘s licensing and payment scheme for the version 3 software (what, you want a link? Feh, go Google it), all I can really say is, damn it’s sure handy to have written my own system. 🙂 I notice that a lot of people are seriously considering migrating to… Continue reading MT Comment
Lewis and Clark
Today is (exactly) the 200th anniversary of the start of the Lewis and Clark expedition, on May 14, 1804. Did anyone realize this? I almost missed this entirely, but for Reuter’s Oddly Enough RSS feed: “Lewis and Clark’s List: Opium and ‘Portable Soup’” lists some of the provisions they took on their expedition, including opium,… Continue reading Lewis and Clark
Useless lists: Computer stuff
A co-worker who’s moving was telling me today about finding a dusty box in his attic that turned out to be an original Atari 2600, and for some reason that made me want to blog about it. Instead, this turned into a list of all the various computer and video game systems I own that… Continue reading Useless lists: Computer stuff
Library of Alexandria discovered
This is big: Library of Alexandria discovered. Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the site of the Library of Alexandria, often described as the world’s first major seat of learning. A Polish-Egyptian team has excavated parts of the Bruchion region of the Mediterranean city and discovered what look like lecture halls or… Continue reading Library of Alexandria discovered