Well, life is generally kicking my ass these days, so I’m going to take some time off from this blog…  And anything else nonessential.  I hope to resurface mid-April.

Happy spring.

This exceedingly rare work-based post is to note that Lisa and I do not have Internet access at home right now. (There are plenty of wireless networks available in our apartment, but our neighbors, upstanding citizens all, have them locked down for private use.) Hopefully we’ll be back online next week.

My comment spam filter crapped out at about the same time I got linked from a number of sites for some of my SXSW note posts, and as a result my comment spam has quickly become unmanageable.  Today I got 803 spam submissions, the worst day I’ve had so far.  I quickly scanned them to see if there was anything legitimate, but who knows if I missed anything between the “value information” about gay fantasy art or info about sexy teen virgins.  If I don’t get the filter fixed soon, I may just have to turn off comments altogether.

I guess it may finally be time for that Wordpress upgrade I’ve been thinking about…

Taking the rest of the year off. See you in 2007.

Pigcam has returned at http://www.nonlocality.com/pigcam/.

Well, maybe I won’t be posting photos to Flickr from the road after all. Due to an Uploader bug, the only way I can seem to get photos to Flickr is to upload them manually through the web interface. Since I’m on vacation, and since using the web interface takes a lot of time, I’m not going to post any photos until I get back to Minneapolis.

And with that, we’re off to see Old Montreal. More later.

I’m starting to wonder why I thought it was a good idea to move to a CMS in the first place. WordPress’ interface sucks enough that it actually takes me longer to write through the application than it would for me to just jot something down in HTML.

Don’t get me started on the templates, either. (Yes, the design is messed up. It’s a work in progress.)

And we’re back. Nonlocality.com is kind of back up, although the blog is going to look odd and lack archives for the time being. WordPress on Dreamhost was an absolute snap to set up, but modifying the templates has forced me to start learning PHP. It’s kind of frustrating, but it’s been a while since I learned a new Web technology, so what the heck.

Expect occasional freak-outs of the site while I play with templates. For the time being, the exceedingly dusty album and resume sections can serve as reminders of what once was.

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