http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/ News & Nattering. What will the children think? en-us 2009-02-14T23:39:05-07:00 2009-02-17T21:48:38-07:00 I won't go into a lot of details (as they'll be lost to posterity), but I've done pretty much all the prep work I can do preparatory to converting DDtB... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/14/lastminute_business.html Okay, well I misspent my Friday afternoon plowing into WordPress, methodically walking through documentation both centralized and diverse. None of this was helped by my site running like molasses... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/13/preparing_to_take_the_lea.html And in this corner, as a contender for replacing Movable Type here, is WordPress, probably the most popular blogging platform around. I'm interested in hosting my blog myself, for... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/12/considering_wordpress.html http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/12/next_up_were_going_to_man.html So the suggestion has been raised by Stacey (web maven, MT pro, and tech support guru at my web host) that I give up on Movable Type and move... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/12/departing_from_movable_ty.html Doyce posts about a Publetariat article on the dire writing on the wall viz bricks-and-mortar chain bookstores. An interestng read, and Doyce ends up with asking ... When was the... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/11/bricks_and_mortar_and_pap.html http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/10/mixed_images.html First, we were pondering some sort of big vacation this year -- big deals, something family-oriented, something getaway and fun. Second, I was working on the endless "Putting Digital... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/10/vacation_plans.html I've managed to get on a couple of, um, conservative email lists, so it's interesting to see what gets tossed over the transom. This one came Don Wildmon's AFA: A... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/10/i_get_the_most_amusing_or.html http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/10/makes_one_think.html Yes, I'm painfully aware that the blog (particularly the comment system) is performing very slowly. No, I'm not certain what's causing it, though it seems to be Evil Spammer-related. Yes,... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/10/technical_difficulties.html http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/09/four_quick_reviews.html Yes, I am, in fact, the last person to have posted this Robot Chicken rendition of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, done as an Italian opera. So what?... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/09/le_wrath_di_khan.html A recent io9 article on the Bradbury Building (boggled over by BD) made reference to my own personal first connection with that LA classic, the Outer Limits episode "Demon... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/09/demon_with_a_glass_hand.html Um ... the following would seem to indicate that something is seriously unstable and unsustainable in our economic system. The Treasury opened its window to help. They pumped a... http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/09/sandbagged.html