Aten’t Dead

I thought I should just drop a note and say I’m not dead. I am in fact 41 (so far for 10 days). Which is not dead, though some young whippersnappers (yes, I feel entitled to use that phrase now) seem to think so. I got news for ya, sunny Jim! ::shaking fist::

Yes, as the [...]

Various

Various updates, including another about the 2nd gravlax, the letter I wrote to the president, etc.

Administrative notes

A few of administrative notes:

Comments on this blog are screened for any single user’s first comment post. I review and approve that comment and then you’re free to keep posting comments.
To comment on this blog, you don’t need a Wordpress.org account. You need an account either on the blog itself or on Facebook. If you [...]

Facebook spam – “speedroar-com”

Got some apparently automated or viral facebook spam from someone in my network. It was really stupid. In the end (I gave fake info), you get a picture of a golden lion tamarin, probably an assload of spam, and a text message:

(I am providing this as a study in stupid and time-wasting spam-tactics, out of [...]

Test post – testing WordBook install on my Wordpress blog

It turned out to be PHP performance issues on my host, which it looks like my hosting service has fixed.

WordBook appears to be just fine.

Interestingly, perhaps, no obvious controls for dealing with private posts, so let’s see what happens there now.

Just call me a late adopter

Many of you no doubt already know that I opened a Facebook account today, because you got a friend request from me.

I remain skeptical about this whole Facebook business, but I ended up joining because so many folks at work mentioned wanting to network with me, and because my cousin, Michael, invited me a couple [...]