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Just a quick update to let everyone know why it’s been slow… I’ve made my move to Portland. I don’t have Internet access where I’m staying, so updates may be spotty for a while.
I’m back from the northwest. It was a great trip, much needed. Haven’t gotten much sleep the past few days, though. I drove 16 hours yesterday to get home from Portland, and went back to work today. It might take me a couple days to get the ball rolling again…
Much, much thanks to Fell, Jason, salaTHRUStra, and Lucifer for painting my fence guest editing the blog while I was away. There’s a lot of good stuff posted here that I’m going to have a great time reading over the next few days. One of my favorite things about doing this blog is seeing what guests bring to the table. It’s just so much fun for some reason…
OK, I’m out of here. Jason Lubyk‘s breaking his blogging hiatus to guest blog, along with Lucifer Benway, Fell, and salaTHRUStra.
I’m leaving on vacation tomorrow, and I’ve kept forgetting to see if anyone wanted to guest blog while I’m away. So if anyone’s interested, comment here or e-mail [redacted]
Update: I think we’ve got it covered now.
For those reading this on your RSS reader: a new design’s up! Based on a lovely template by Priss. There’s a lot of house keeping to be done, but it’s nice to have a new style.
It turns out turning off trackbacks in the discussion options only turned off trackbacks for new posts. Does anyone know of a way to disable them for past posts as well, other than going through the archives and turning them off by hand?
Forgot to mention, yes Friday Fiction will still be updated weekly for the duration of my hiatus.
I’ve decided to take a break from blogging for a while. At least a week, maybe more. I’m trying to juggle a lot right now: work, blogging, excercise, writing, reading, magic, having a social life, not to mention those day to day things like cooking and cleaning. So something’s got to give. I’m also starting to feel that fabled “blogger fatigue.” I’ve been doing this for like 6 years now, so I don’t feel too bad about a break.
Also, I’m starting at least one new blog and all my existing blogs need some sort of work done to them: Klintron’s Brain needs to be upgraded to WP1.5, Technoccult’s comments are broken, Coffee and Caffeine’s posting funtion is broken, and all my blogs need to be re-designed. So all that technical and design work needs to be done, and after spending 40+ hours a week dinking around with computers, I just don’t feel like doing these tasks most of the time. So now’s a good time to just say “forget about it” for a little while before coming back to it all and getting serious about “going pro.”
Although WP-hashcash has stopped the flow of comment spam, I’ve been getting hundreds of trackback spams everyday. And I rarely get legit trackbacks. So I’ve disabled the trackback function on this site and the Coffee and Caffeine Blog and added a link the comments section of each post to that posts Technorati Cosmos page. It’s similar to the approach taken at Boing Boing. It’s a lousy hack, but until I figure out something better this is it. I’ll be doing the same thing on my other blogs before too long.
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