My latest project …

I haven’t posted in a while. It’s been about three weeks.

I mean, of course you’ve got the Christmas holiday — I went home for a week, and Mom and Pop still have dial-up in Chipmonk. Then there’s the busy-ness before the break, the stuff after. And don’t forget New Year’s.

So that only gets me to about January 3rd. I actually started a rather lengthy post. No, let me rephrase that: I wrote a lot for a post. And then I lost it all. PowWeb was having issues with MySQL that day, and I lost the post. Pfft. Gone. Up in smoke.

The post was about IM clients — Gaim and AIM Triton. I wrote a bunch of stuff about features, my experiences trying each out, and why I chose not to use either. I hadn’t gotten to the part about how the crap Triton put on my system has left me considering a format.

That post was also the first time I had tried out WordPress 2.0’s authoring interface. It’s a little bit different, and a little prettier, but I must point out that it doesn’t work well with the Google Toolbar Spellchecker. This leaves me feeling very melancholy. Hopefully I spelled “melancholy” right, because I sure as hell ain’t gonna spellcheck it.

So yes. There’s a post. Happy New Year. If the Colts had managed a miraculous come from behing win today, I would have made a post today with the words “holy crap” involved.

I moved in to my new apartment on Monday. I was at my sister Maureen’s over the weekend. The drive from Allegany to Arlington is about six hours, and the drive from Arlington to Atlanta is about ten hours.

My apartment community has a website that allows residents to set up utilities before moving in, so gas and electricity were on when I got here. However, I didn’t get Internet until today, which is why I am writing this now.

I have no furniture, but I was at Ikea yesterday and Target the day before. I found some stuff I like, and hopefully by Monday I’ll either have everything or at least ordered it.

I just finished uploading all the old posts. The archives now go back all the way to April 2002. Before this version of the site, none of my posts had titles. For continuity, I read each post and created a title for it.

Check out the very first post, The Best Time of the Day.

You may also notice a slight change to the layout of the site which resolved several issues: My email address is now more prominent, the Login link is easier to see, and the archives links are at the bottom of the nav, so even as they continue to expand they will not force any elements farther down the page.