Whuzzup?

Just some randomness:

• Man, it seems like Google has de-listed the BlahStuff (or at least ranked me down a ton). My traffic has dropped by more than half starting last Wednesday. If any of y'all that get regular Google hits felt like mentioning BS in a fresh post in the hopes to re-upping my Google-juice, I'd appreciate it.
• Hey, look! It's Mars!
• Monkey pictures are fun.
• Started working on a new double desk set-up for our office on Saturday. Got some nice 3/4" maple veneer plywood and glued some half-inch MDF on the bottom to strengthen it up a bit. Got to use my flush-cutting router bit for the first time, but then it got all cold and snowy. Gonna treat the edges with some strips of this cool laminated oak I have, so it should give a cool effect. Photos when there's something to see.
• My tattoo has a few spots that will require touch-up. I wonder if it's just me, in general, or the forearm location, specifically, or a combo that cause me such problems in healing my tattoos.
• Saw Murderball on A&E. Good stuff (except for all the Dog the Bounty Hunter commercials). Zupan's the man.
• The BU Terriers swept UMass and will meet UNH in the Hockey East semifinals.
• My friends at the Exchange Tavern managed to shoehorn a dart board into their fine establishment. I'm excited. Now if only they'd update their web site.
• What with Miracle Ed's visit and the fresh tattoos, we've been out of the hot box for over a month now. Time to get back on the horse real soon. Luckily I haven't slipped much (yet).
• The biggest crawdaddy you'll ever see (thanks Brandon).

del.icio.us

I hope you guys keep an eye on my del.icio.us links. It's very high volume on geek stuff, but there are the occasional gems for normal people, too.

The best thing you can do is sign up for a del.icio.us acount and add me to your inbox (or you could just subscribe to my links via RSS).

Analyze This

Google Analytics, eh? It certainly looks to have some interesting features. It also seems to be geared more towards bigger sites (what with all the marketing speak in the feature descriptions, etc.), but I'm sure it'll be fun for us little guys. Glad to see Google putting Urchin to good use.

I, for one, welcome our Google overlords.

Simplification is sweeping the nation

I've moved the archive and category links off the sidebar. You can find them on the Old Stuff page now. Let me know if this hampers your enjoyment of the site at all.

Oh, and while we're at it, you might like to check out the site stats, too.

Loop me some Karma

If you're shopping for some hipster cool, you might consider using my Karmaloop affiliate link. It's permanently located on the right.

Make WordPress Prettier

Wow. If you've got a WordPress blog, you really should check out the Tiger Admin plugin. That's just slick!

Like a prom dress

We're off to New England. There's an only slightly better than zero chance that I might touch a computer while I'm gone, so...

Tune in next week.

Consternation

Comments appear to be nonfunctioning ATM working again.

Delish!

Hey, did y'all notice you can view my del.icio.us links right here? The link is over there on the sidebar. All thanks to this plugin for Wordpress.

It's good stuff.

FtN

By the way, we've got some action at Flopped the Nuts again... Right now, it looks a whole lot like this thing, what with the default template and all. We'll work on that.

TXD VC II

So, even though it's twice as much as the first two rounds were (Stupidity penalty, I guess.), I've signed up for lifetime hosting with TextDrive. Matt's splitting it with me, so it'll only take about 10 months for it to be a wash, monitarily.

Nice.

Blogging Recursion

BTW, the XML output from Google Maps, that I mentioned earlier has been disabled. Mais c'est la vie, non?

[The funny bit is I found out about this because Jon added my "pee a little" response to his original post to his del.icio.us links.]

Well, that was easy.

Now we're on WP 1.5... Perhaps the new WP themes framework will make it more likely that I'll work up a fancy new design, eh?

In the mean time, I have downloaded some themes to play around with... (And I dislike all of them. No surprise.)

Oh, yay!

Gotta get me some Wordpress 1.5 real soon!

Now with 87% less eye bleeding

Finally got around to killing the default WordPress template. This "dots" style hopefully won't last as long as it did last time I had it.

Tabula Rasa

So, yeah. My old host is gone, daddy, gone:

Our main commercial network has been compromised and we are no longer able to continue providing service due to a large scale hack. After looking at the damage and after alot of soul searching I am sorry to say that we are closing our doors.

Or to put it another way:

So over the years Acta Divina (a semi-large hosting company) has been doing really bad on the business side of things, and even worse on the security side. They were recently hacked, badly, and it was going to take weeks to get back on their feet. But instead of wasting more money, they decided to shut down and leave everyone in the dust.

Super. My rotten hosting luck continues. Here's hoping I've found a good one now.

Fighting the Good Fight

I installed the Spam Karma plugin for WordPress in an attempt to curb comment spam. We'll see how it works. Let me know via email (jake at this domain) or whatever if you have problems commenting.

What's going on?

Well, as you can see, I have republished some recipes.If I'm really honest with myself, those are probably the only posts I worry about losing at this point.

I still have all my old Blogger archives, so I could re-import them, but I just don't see the point.

Maybe if those lousy Canadians ever resurface, I'll be able to grab my WordPress database and get everything back to normal.

If not, it's only forward from here on out, kids.

Dummy

Just making a post with all of the top-level categories selected.... Nothing to see here.