Though the day started out cold, rainy and disorganized, by the time we got to Merlefest, it was clear, sunny and perfect. We had a great campsite (four sites, actually) on a little hill by the river. Sure, we were, again, camping on the grounds of the Wilkesboro waste water treatment plant, but that didn't bring us down -
After setup was finished, Mrs Cleek donned rabbit ears, to show her approval.
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So, yeah. Here's the new place. I've been thrashing around trying to find a theme that I like that can handle posts with images 500 pixels wide. Most are too narrow, and fall apart when you try to tweak the .CSS to make the main column wide enough. Then there are those that are wide enough but can't be rendered by both Firefox and IE. Then there are those that are simple enough to be able to withstand modification, simple enough to be rendered correctly by those two browsers, but are just plain or just plain ugly. For now, I'm going with simple and plain. Maybe I can find a nice photo-blog theme somewhere someday.
WordPress is nice (it even imported all my Blogger posts and comments!), but I sure do miss being able to use the "BlogThis" button on the Google Toolbar...
Oh yeah, if you want to comment, your first comment has to be approved (aka "moderated") by me. All comments after that should go through without intervention - it's a WordPress anti-spam thing.
... and like the vast majority of the uncountable number of stars, nobody will ever see this one.
Since Blogger was dead for most of the morning, I decided to waste some time looking at alternative blogging options. I installed a copy of WordPress on the site I use to hold the images for Cleek, and started to configure it. Looks pretty good. It's definitely more powerful than Blogger, and I like the idea of having the whole application under my control - unchanging unless I change it myself, unlike Blogger and it's constant upgrade/breakage cycle. And, after Blogger's extended downtime today, I like the idea of having it on my own servers, for reliability - I know how important this site is to you, my handful of occasional readers.
But then blogger came back up. And then my other site died - not just my site, but the whole server, and all their other servers, including the one that hosts my business site, and the helpdesk site, and the main page for the hosting company. Poof, gone. That's why all my pictures are gone right now...
So much for that theory.
I still might do the move.
This work week, the iPods starts with:
Very nice for a Monday morning (except maybe that first Pavement song - that's a silly little bit of noisy nonsense).
...and if this post ever shows up, it means Blogger is working again.
OMG OMG OMG! A list! A music list!
Respectful Insolence shows us Q Magazine's "The 50 Worst Albums Ever":
I suspect the theme of that is really "Bad albums from otherwise decent big name artists, and some novelties". Obviously, you could find some horrors in the discount bin at any record store that would make anything up there look good.
The only one of those I own is Beck's Midnight Vultures, but I own (or have owned) dozens of records that are far worse than it.
Scot at Izzle! Izzle pfaff! muses about flying to Utah. In the middle, he writes:
Counting the five dollar words, that's a $30 paragraph - in my estimation. Not only that, I fucking love it. I wish I thought myself capable of coming up with a phrase like "a gerund of a state". Damn you Scot. Damn you all to Utah.
I thought this, the Tasting Menu from a restaraunt called "The Fat Duck", was a joke. It reads like a Monty Python sketch. Some of the choices:
Crazy stuff. But, I was wrong; it's a real place. And not only is it a real place...
Well then. I should get out more.