Posts tagged “blogging”

Twenty years of blogging, from sandwich diaries to AWS takedowns, coming out (twice) to becoming American. The blog has outlasted Slashdot, nearly outlasted Twitter, and documented almost my entire adult life. I was right about who I am and what I do. Here's to whatever comes next.

Ten years ago I registered this domain from my brother's couch in Clapham, fresh off the boat from Trinidad. The blog itself came a few months later. I grabbed screenshots of the old designs this morning -- they are gloriously funky.

I've revived my old web development blog with a guide to promoting your website without resorting to spam or sleazy tactics. Yes, it says "Social Media Optimization," but I promise it's mostly douchebaggery-free.

2009 was a light year for blogging, with Twitter and Hacker News absorbing most of my output. Highlights included predicting Twitter's tagline change, writing a flawed but decent short story, and posts on journalism's death, immigration, the App Store, and Avatar.

Blogs have made journalism obsolete. Reporters were just middlemen connecting chatty experts to curious readers. Now experts blog directly, readers find them via search, and knowledgeable bystanders synthesize the conversation. Newspapers will die, but reporting will improve. Targeted advertising means better returns on smaller budgets, enabling niche businesses to thrive.

2008 was dominated by Obama's election and the fight against Prop 8, with some tech commentary on Chrome, Android, Twitter, and the future of the web mixed in. Also: the global financial system collapsed, Sarah Palin imploded, and HTTP conversation codes became a surprise hit.

A cute puppy photo, because it's my blog and I do what I want.

Still here, just exhausted. Follow me on Twitter and the linklog in the meantime.

My blog turns 7: 1,298 posts, 350,000 words, more than a quarter of my life documented. It's now my longest sustained personal endeavor. I've changed enormously in that time, but the blog outlasted every school, job, and home I've had.

Wikipedia already had that newly-rediscovered Helen Keller photo in her entry just four days after it made the news. Britannica could never.

Twitter's down, so I'm blogging like it's 2003. Anyway: gym is finally awesome. Pushed past the constant soreness stage into the feel-incredible stage. Wooooo!

A big year: moved from London to San Francisco, got an iPhone, relaunched the site after 7 years, worked too hard, and blogged less than I'd like. More life updates than deep thinking, but the foundations are in place for a better 2008.

Got hit by comment spam that broke the comments section. Fixed now, though I'm baffled why anyone would bother writing a spambot to crack my simple spam protection.

Rearranged the site a bit: new clutter at the bottom including an experimental "recently bookmarked blogs" feature, the return of the calendar module, some IE7 fixes, and a helpful notice for IE6 users suggesting they upgrade.

Removed the "beta" label, added tons of tags, and spent way too long manually tagging six-plus years of old entries. Interesting to travel backwards through my own thoughts and notice the cycles and obsessions. All done now.

Surprise! Seldo.Com is rebuilt from scratch after five years on the same creaky backend. New features include tags, search, Twitter and Flickr streams, and human-readable URLs. The visual redesign isn't quite done, but the new system is live and I'll fix things as I go.

My blogger code: B9 d+ t++ k- s u f- i-- o x+ e+ l- c--

Something's going on at Widgets HQ. Also, I'm into chai tea now, but I'm keeping my non-hippy credentials intact by sticking with regular milk.

A year in review: accidental Google fame via Orlando Bloom, skin allergies, dental hell, antibiotic depression, Ukraine, being made redundant the day after praising my job, and relocating to San Francisco. Also Snakes on a Plane was pretty good. Archives finally fixed too.

Got hacked again, but caught it faster this time and found the entry point. Hopefully that's the end of it.

Been absent, but hope to post more soon.

Four years ago I blogged about a cute geek from an Apple Switch ad, convinced he was gay. He denied it. Turns out I was right -- he came out last year. Great news, except I was apparently one of the creepy guys who made that period harder for him. Sorry, Jeremiah.

Sharing some funny lyrics from Orson's "Already Over" -- not directed at anyone, just genuinely hilarious. The delivery makes it even better. Recommend the album.

Got a backlog of Ukraine stories to tell: beach holidays, attractive locals, extreme eating, Soviet-era monuments, befriending a kid without speaking his language, and the hell of mobile HTML editing.

Blogging live from Kharikov via GPRS, courtesy of my dad's bank office.

Been slacking on the blog. Go apologize to a cow.

Minor update to seldo.net: absolute URLs mean pictures now show correctly, inline CSS is stripped so images behave. Added a Music category too. Still working on per-user features.

Five years, 946 posts. Not too shabby.

Offline but not dead. New broadband on the way, so normal service resumes soon. Bear with me while I ration my expensive temporary connection.

Too busy with work and moving house to blog or think. Friday is the big day.

Tried blogging from my phone using Opera Mini. Nearly worked. The browser itself is great, beats my Nokia's built-in browser handily, and installs directly on your phone in minutes. Go try it.

Fixed Planet Afterlife update delays caused by Planet Seldo's build time. Updates now happen every 15 minutes, and my web host has resolved some additional issues that were getting in the way.

Buttoned Down Disco is this Friday. Also, the 2006 Bloggies site already crashed. Next year, all ten of you are nominating me.

I wrote a low-memory PHP CLI script to strip comments from MovableType export files before importing into WordPress, saving me from importing 22MB of spam alongside a mere 400k of actual content.

Stunning sunset over the UK today has me feeling spring's promise. Also discovered "anablog" -- I'm redefining it as notes you scribble on paper while traveling to post later. I have a massive one from my Tobago trip still waiting to go up.

Ed's back with a new WordPress blog. Go check it out.

Login URL for MT has changed ahead of the WordPress switch. Everything else should be the same.

Google Image Search made my old Orlando Bloom post the second result, sending my traffic up 15x. I'm shamelessly leaning into it. Maybe some of those teeny boppers will stick around for the actual writing. Also, yes, I had those pictures for a reason.

Spam killed the server again. Comments are off, and everyone's moving to WordPress within 30 days. MoveableType is done.

256 posts, two bombings, two vacations, one dream job at Yahoo, and a memory so bad I had to read my own blog to remember any of it. Net result: a pretty good year.

Back from holiday, tanned, rested, and starved of male company. I took 273 photos and need to go clubbing. Also, Google has decided my site is the place to find Orlando Bloom pictures.

It's freezing, I'm settling into Yahoo!, and my new boss returns next week to shake things up again. Send me somewhere warm. Currently reading the Economist, playing with Konfabulator, and stressing about Christmas gifts.

It works.

Four days left at my old job, and my new boss has already found this blog. Can't say where I'm going yet, but it's big and exciting. Also heading to the Popstarz reopening to pay proper respects to Simon.

Good news coming Monday. Ask me if you're curious!

A "7 things" meme: what I plan to do before I die, what I can and can't do, what attracts me to men (bonus points for CLI skills), my verbal tics, my celebrity crushes, and seven friends I'm tagging to do the same.

I've set up a mirror of Planet Afterlife while Will is away. Spent 45 minutes making it pixel-perfect, with slightly more entries per page and updates every 20 minutes. It'll stay up until Will returns.

Tired but blogging anyway. Life's good: pizza, Harry Potter, free tickets, summer walks across London. That last item on my list didn't quite work out.

I took a quiz and apparently I'm Scrivs. Flattering, given how awesome 9rules is.

Took a quiz that called me a "pundit blogger." Not very scientific, but I'll take it. Meanwhile, work devolved into shouting names on IRC and a Pythagorean argument about who sits closest to whom. Diagrams were drawn. It's that kind of office.

Swamped with stuff I can't talk about publicly. Bear with me.

Not my proudest comeback post: I used a name generator to christen my penis Darth Vader the Strangely Proportioned Liquorice Strap. Yes, really.

My housemates T&J are DJing at Miss-Shapes tonight, my boss just left, and I'm going clubbing on a Thursday. Currently reading Stephenson's System of the World and drinking Yazoo.

Went from baking brownies to being ill again. London is a germfest, I'm a weakling, or both. Not going to the gym this time. Bright spot: a generous donor gave £30 to Gay Geeks, covering a chunk of hosting costs.

Journalists are now covering bloggers and becoming bloggers themselves. That's because journalists and bloggers are the same thing: writers. Blogging isn't journalism, but sometimes bloggers produce journalism, and sometimes journalists don't. Blogs have simply lowered the barrier to publishing. Being published is no longer special.

I've been neglecting the blog, but I'm back to updating the scratchpad. In other news: new washing machine tomorrow (hallelujah, three weeks without clean clothes), and vacation photos are up on Flickr.

Blogging from the dinner table. Not sure if I should be proud or ashamed.

Been working on getting comments functional again, but spam remains an unsolvable nightmare. They're technically on, but hidden by default. Enjoy it while it lasts before the spammers inevitably kill the server again.

Moblogging from a yacht in the Caribbean via GSM. Technology is incredible, and yes, it's pretty great out here.

Bored of the internet. Done. Blog's closed. Enjoy the archives.

Still here, just keeping some things close to the chest. Also, four day weeks are the shizznit.

Late night, no energy, and I got thoroughly schooled by Leah on my half-baked gay men post. Here's a teddy bear instead.

Spam comments in the old database are overloading the server when rebuilding blogs, causing my account to get disabled. Working on a fix for your commenting issues.

Kottke is going full-time blogger, which raises questions about what blogging even is. My take: it's the amateur/professional distinction, not fact-checking standards. More selfishly, if people are paying for blogs now, maybe I can get in on that.

My life has been rated 12A. Apparently I'm unbearably tame and need to get up to something naughty right away.

Upgraded to MovableType 3.15. Commenting now requires TypeKey registration. Follow the setup steps, send me your token, and I'll update your templates. TypeKey isn't fully working yet, but donors get priority fixes. Thanks to everyone who chipped in.

Commenting is broken across my MovableType-hosted blogs. Fixing it requires a $100 upgrade I can't justify since I'm broke and don't even use MT myself. If six of you chip in £9 via PayPal, we're sorted. Don't be a free rider.

Planet Seldo finally has a design. Dom immediately broke it by posting 2000 giant photos, but the layout handles it gracefully. Think of it as a preview of where Seldo.Com is heading visually.

Two old website designs I never used, but kind of wish I had. The yin yang one was totally impractical at over 1000 pixels wide, but I still have a soft spot for it.

Fed up with comment spammers taking down my server. Disabling all MT comments until further notice and likely ditching MovableType entirely.

I need to start keeping a notebook by my bed for 2am ideas. Work was terrible yesterday but better today. Excited about my upcoming move, though everyone's enthusiasm for my new place makes me wonder if I'll regret leaving.

Been slacking on daily posts, but life's busy. Went to an OUT party with Moz last night, free bar plus low turnout meant everyone got very drunk. Good times. Check my linklog for that incredible VW Polo ad.

Missed yesterday's post because I got lost building a feed manager for Planet Seldo. Redesign coming tonight. Also, "Virgins in the Valley" by Gabi and the Whoremoans is incredible; ask me for a copy.

Almost missed my daily blogging resolution! M came to cook tonight so I was off the internet all evening. Only news: I won free Popstarz entry for the one week I'm not planning to go. Anyone want to be me on Friday?

Blogging every day makes it easier to find things worth blogging about. With a smaller sample size, something is always relatively more interesting than everything else in the period. The more you blog, the more you blog.

I've set up Planet Seldo, a temporary replacement for the absent Planet Afterlife using the same software. It updates every 20 minutes. Let me know if you want feeds added, and if Wabson sends me his CSS I'll make it look just like the original.

Committed to daily blogging even when there's nothing to report. Vacation has meant rain, Stargate marathons, and aimless channel-flipping through 500 channels. Tomorrow I'm taking a boat through a tiny archipelago. Poorly-composed photos forthcoming.

Stuck inside on vacation due to torrential rain, I'm killing time with online quizzes. Results: Nerd Cat, alternative social status, only 32% geek (I object), plus a meme about unique CDs, books, movies, and places I've visited. Productive? No. Regrets? Also no.

"Dooced" is not a word. 6,000 Google results don't make it one. "Blog" has 99 million. Let's kill this neologism before it spreads. Also, I got the flu on my tropical vacation. Karma is a jerk.

Been neglecting the blog, but the linklog on the right deserves your attention in the meantime. Seriously, go look at it.

Jon Stewart appeared on Crossfire and called the hosts partisan hacks, begging them to stop distorting the news. It backfired somewhat since his own kid-glove Kerry interview undermined his credibility. The whole depressing exchange just confirmed everything wrong with American media.

I can now give anyone with a blog on my server their own subdomain (e.g. yourblogname.seldo.com). Just ask!

Moved to a new server. Everything works. Let's blog.

Been too busy living life to blog about it. Good weekend though: Popstarz with friends, a Green Park picnic, and The Bourne Supremacy (dull). Also added a music log to the site so you can judge my taste in shit.

Minor site upgrades: RSS feeds, per-entry comments, permalinks, and finally killed that annoying popup.

Finally launched my linklog (borrowed style from Tom who borrowed it from Kottke) and got my RSS feed working. Also fixed the end-of-month bug. Comments broke, then got fixed too.

I took that relationship personality test everyone's doing. Apparently I'm a "Love Geek" - weirdly sexy, calm under conflict, don't date casually, would make an excellent parent. Nailed it on most counts. Only 4% of respondents share my type.

Got hit by comment spammers across all my MT installs. Check your comments and contact me if you need the anti-spam tools.

A list of weblogs by Warwick University students, for no particular reason.

I took a quiz. I'm Raver Bear. Nobody's shocked.

Manic week: saw the brilliant Ben Wishaw in Hamlet, attended the London blogger meetup, finally stalked Tom in person, caught a glimpse of Cory Doctorow, and watched Eternal Sunshine. Also something mysterious happened Monday. More soon, maybe.

Google's IPO is filed, jobs are back, and it smells like 2000. My brother just started a sports blog too. The boom is back, baby.

I answer reader questions: my first crush (a Chemistry classmate who helped me realize I was gay), whether I'd streak Trafalgar Square ($30k might convince me), why I'd never move back to Trinidad, my proudest teenage moment, and what motivates me. Spoiler: fantasies of cheering crowds.

Joining the "ask me anything" meme: leave 3 questions in the comments along with your blog URL, and I'll answer them in a future post. Also, welcome Danny to the blogosphere, where he's already mastering the art of the overshare.

Took an Empire Records quiz (I'm Lucas, appropriately enough), got distracted by Moore's War President image, felt genuinely guilty about Iraq, and fell down a rabbit hole of random LiveJournal photos. The internet is vast, weird, and occasionally moving.

Reluctantly propagating a meme forced on me by T, I answer questions about nearby books, wall decorations (including a stunning Russian communist banner), dreams of white-rap stardom, and Jerusalem. My room's walls alone took forever to catalogue. Now off to a picnic.

The Bush administration is going after porn, which surprises no one who remembers Ashcroft covering naked statues. My response: enjoy this portrait of Ashcroft made from pornographic images. Also, Wonkette is great and the Republibloggers criticizing it for gay jokes really need to check their irony detectors.

I'm the Grammar Fuhrer, apparently. Also, another journalist just discovered blogs exist. Their careers are doomed.

My friend Jamie started a blog. Also, disk space issues are temporarily fixed so upload away. Oh, and that leaked Catwoman trailer confirms the movie looks terrible. Michelle Pfeiffer was way sexier. Also I may be dreaming right now.

My blog turns three today. Rather than pretend you care, here's a self-indulgent timeline of my greatest hits anyway, from my first post in 2001 through politics, poetry, crushes, and controversies. Frequency of interesting posts seems to be increasing. Whether that's perspective or improvement, you decide.

I outed a fellow blogger's Gaydar profile by Googling his domain name. The fetish list is pretty funny. He doesn't seem too bothered, though he claims his tastes have evolved since posting it. Lesson learned: you can't hide anything from Google.

Welcoming a new Warwick blogger and dumping a pile of links I've been hoarding: blog catfights, Bush's tasteless 9/11 ads, The Economist endorsing gay marriage, loaded survey questions, Al Sharpton's greatest hits, and DeviantART being gorgeous. The usual chaos.

Took some online quizzes. The book quiz said I was David Copperfield, which felt wrong. The country quiz said I'm Chile: skinny, bumpy, fighting for justice. That one felt right.

Working on a new Art Deco front page design. It's more refined than previous sketches, wastes less space, and shows comments inline. Still very baroque, with some fun rotating decorative elements I'm calling "bedknobs." Worried it looks too much like every other MovableType blog out there.

I'm redesigning the site with art deco aesthetics, better content organization (splitting the blog into "Linkage" and "Thinkage"), and modern code. I've been sketching layouts but can't settle on one. Here are my doodles. Tell me what you think.

Made myself a South Park character, but went fun over realistic. You can make your own too.

My hosting company had a server meltdown and lost data with no warning. Most blogs I host survived intact, but mynciboi lost recent pictures. Not my fault! Here's the current list of MT blogs I'm hosting.

Support the BBC.

Spent 36+ hours with Richard this weekend and it was wonderful. That's all I'll say about that. Also did absolutely nothing else, and I'm completely fine with it.

Being called lovely by a lovely boy makes me feel like a swooning Georgian lady. Third date Friday. You can read his blog yourselves now, so I'll just say he's much sunnier in person than his online complaints might suggest.

I've helped another Trinidadian school friend, Colin, start a blog. Three days in and he's already covering all the bases. Meanwhile, I'm barely blogging myself lately. Still alive, just swamped.

Got a scanner so I can start saving my meeting doodles. They're getting elaborate and I can't bear to lose them. This one's not great, but my first blog post sucked too. Gotta start somewhere.

Sick with a cold, so here's a raw link dump: BBC was least impartial on Iraq war coverage, a cool snowflake builder, Peter Jackson confirmed for The Hobbit, Defective Yeti's packing peanut baby quote, and my Smallville fixation that's definitely not about Lex and Clark's tension.

I gave my friend Mikey a blog whether he wanted one or not. Anyone want to help with his CSS?

I spent all weekend (Friday 8pm to Sunday 10pm, 10 hours sleep total) building a site full of circles I had to cut and paste manually. Never again. Also: Britney's new album is elevator music, Madonna showed her up, and my love life is exactly as empty as this post suggests.

Helped Carly and Dan get their blogs set up on MovableType.

Got backed up waiting on a site update that got delayed, so here's a week's worth of posts all at once. Sorry!

Maybe blogs aren't journalism but a new kind of social performance: "here I am, do you like me?" If so, I'm doing mine wrong.

I'm fighting with someone through blog posts, which is absurd. I'm worried sick about you, and that's not condescension. "Okay" isn't "happy." And being made to feel wrong for wanting to help, while being kept in the dark, is maddening. Fuck this medium.

Bloggers are like DJs, sampling and remixing the best of the web. Gibson thinks blogging is like boiling a kettle with the lid off, wasting creative steam. Both metaphors probably apply to me. Google suggests there's no shortage of ways to describe what we do here.

It's Gay Sex Week (Oct 12-18) and I'm desperately hoping someone organizes a fundraiser just to watch CNN cover it. Also, my recent posts are giving Google some unfortunate ideas about me. I write sappy poetry, I promise.

Got 2000 hits in 24 hours after Google indexed me. Meanwhile, the story I've been covering keeps shifting -- alibis emerging, witness accounts contradicting the girl's version, and she apparently had breakfast with them after. Not speculating further; I'm already in enough trouble.

I'm defiantly posting alleged names in the UK footballer rape case, defending myself against libel accusations. I'm just repeating word-of-mouth, making no claims of truth. The media blackout is crumbling anyway, with Aston Villa denying involvement and the Mirror naming Chelsea.

I've rediscovered my love for Jeff Vogel's writing about his daughter Cordelia, now a toddler. His parenting philosophy? Skip shielding her from swear words and instead teach her to deploy them with maximum effectiveness. Highly recommended reading.

My blog has gotten embarrassingly boring lately. I blogged my lunch twice. Time to browse more, think more, and stop the pedestrian cat-blogging nonsense.

I'm a below-average snooze-button hitter, and proud of it. I also tried a body-clock wake-up trick and it actually worked. Yes, I blogged about waking up. At least I'm not blogging about my cat.

Watched Queer Eye, found it equal parts funny and cringeworthy. Jai Rodriguez is hot but visibly mortified. Also: Matthew is having a baby (hilarious), and apparently Sesame Street is now a tool of American foreign policy.

Bloggers don't change lightbulbs, they link to discussions about it. Also, the Tories want to shut down the BBC website, which would be a disaster. The BBC provides something the market doesn't: impartial news. Thankfully, the Tories are completely unelectable anyway.

I'm a giant ant monster who breathes poisonous gas, apparently. Also, OJ Simpson sees parallels between his case and Scott Peterson's. Gee, I wonder why, OJ.

Blogstakes offers crappy prizes, but more fun is the Devil's Dictionary's sardonic tech definitions, like blog: "To noisily and simultaneously void one's spleen, stomach, bladder and bowels."

Doing the Friday Five this week on morning routines, even though the questions aren't great. I wake up around 9am, sleep in until 2pm on weekends, and immediately turn on my computer. Starting work again in 9 days. Breakfast out in London? I'd go broke.

Matt's got a new website. Go check it out.

Been neglecting this blog while focusing on GayGeeks. Managing multiple blogs is tough!

Enter the contest for a chance to appear in a Boy Meets Boy strip!

Caught up on a backlog of posts over at Gay Geeks, including a followup to the Tom McLaughlin case. Justice was done, though it's a shame that's the exception rather than the rule.

Back after two weeks offline due to a broken PHP script, ironically timed with my new PHP job. Now I'm flat-hunting in a sweltering London, sweating through viewings of overpriced, cramped flats. I want Zone 2, near a tube, with a living room and minimal murder. Apparently £500 won't cut it.

Blame Steve, it was all his idea. Jamie and Carly have also jumped on the bandwagon. If the feed borks after a while just press refresh and it'll start again :-) (There is also a no-frills version if you have a tiny monitor. If you're quite sad, you may wish to use popup stalkervision which updates faster but needs a faster connection)

Shoutout to John at Rainbow Villa, a nearly-20 semi-closeted gay boi whose writing reminds me of my younger self. He was complaining nobody links to him, so here you go, kid.

Massive link dump covering: someone falling off a Segway, the UK's new supreme court, old Netscape versions, Burning Man VR, Matrix Reloaded hotness, barcode self-valuation (I'm worth £6.06), P2P legality, carfree cities, blog hype, X2, Iraq war stage-management, and lists of lists.

Backlog of links including Tropico addiction, post-natal abortion satire, the many things named Voss, a comedic internet history, depleted ocean fish, pervy hobbit diaries, lipograms, Lovecraft, stickman battles, and more. Still drowning in links. I love the web.

Parallel universes, USB watches with analog faces, Hillary's presidential inevitability, virus-killing brain cancer, and Christian ministries warning kids away from grumpy atheists. Another day, another backlog cleared. Professor Giraffenstein assures us dinosaurs still roam the earth. Who am I to argue?

Catching up on a backlog of links: everyone copies search engine winners (now Google), the Google Dance explained, IQ tests during exam revision are a bad idea, the Daily Mail is racist (shocker), rebranding the Tories, barcodes as art, X2 beats Matrix Reloaded, and more.

Four exams down, one easy French one to go. I'm back, redesigning the site and dumping my massive backlog of links on you, 10 a day. Job hunting too. Hundreds more links where these came from.

Exams are here, so I'm shutting down the blog for real this time. No more updates until they're over. Hopefully I'll be back with good news.

The Trini blogosphere just exploded for me thanks to Jonathan Ali, who led me to a whole network of local bloggers. With a recent Guardian article on blogging, maybe we'll soon have enough of us to overthrow the government through sheer intellectual arrogance.

Generated my blogger code and used it to blog about a meme asking how often I blog about memes. Meta enough to make my head explode. Also cross-posted to Gay Geeks, which surely earns bonus points.

A grab-bag of links: gas mask ties, GPS art, NationStates policy geekery, childhood misconceptions, genuinely gruesome body modification (you've been warned), esoteric programming languages, Stuart Hughes's war blog, NARA's exhibit hall, XP powertoys, and a Peter Jackson revelation. Plus my current geeky toolbox.

G Takahashi's weblog has great war coverage, including a soldier's email home that vividly captures life in combat. Written March 29th, the soldier mentions "upcoming weeks" ahead, proving the media's quick-victory narrative was nonsense. Also fascinating: how the internet and Al-Jazeera have dethroned CNN as the war's trusted voice.

Took a week off on the south coast, came back to a virus that trashed Windows XP and all my install files. Leaving a breadcrumb for my future self: SK 1301 keyboard drivers are at Netropa. Use the SK 1300 ones for XP. Yes, I know you don't care.

Massive link dump covering everything from RSS search engines and Google's brand anxiety to sea lion soldiers, Shar-Peis, ties as sexist oppression, and Terminator 3. Consider it a window into my chaotic, easily distracted brain. You're welcome, you link-hungry fiends.

Moz plugged Gay Geeks, so I'm returning the favor by pointing to his new site, Meaningless Artichoke. Also: Congress renamed french fries "freedom fries," which is either hilarious or terrifying. At least we haven't declared actual war on France. Yet.

This blog is turning into a superset of my other two. Highlights: a Hand Puppet Movie Theatre parody of Lord of the Rings where everyone's gay, and BBC Radio 1 Xtra broadcasting from Trinidad Carnival, so I can stream it and not totally miss out this year.

Being geeky and gay means double the teasing, but also double the resilience. I'd share my own coming-out story but don't have time to do it justice. Short version: all-male school, no friends, and I never even told my mom. Happy birthday, mom.

The BBC article on mobile blogging is worth reading for its links to free tools like Manywhere Moblogger, WAPBlog, and KABLOG that let you post from your phone, though they require some server-side setup. There's also a proprietary carrier-focused option called foneblog.

Catching up on a backlog of links: cloning circuses, botox deodorant, dumb food laws, Putin-elf controversies, Harry Potter's questionable morals, AOL's staggering losses, and Bush funding a sun on Earth. Plus games, books, and a testicle shortage. You're welcome.

Long-overdue link dump covering everything from RAF rain experiments and Bonzi Buddy lawsuits to vaginal airbags and Leonard Nimoy singing about Bilbo Baggins. Relevance may have expired but the weird is eternal. More to come.

Only 13% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map. More startlingly, 11% can't find the US either. Also: public autopsies, airplane homes, the end of antibiotics, and I really need to stop playing the Sims. Smallville is terrible but I can't stop watching it.

Melton has the world sorted, and Bush supporters are staying visible post-election. Also, here's an Enigma-encoded message for you to crack: settings AAA, M1322 group 4, Naval M3, wheels 3,2,1. Get googling.

Reluctant blogging today yields a link dump: Monopoly Tycoon, a 20-minute HIV test, magnetic pole flipping, web standards research for my ambitious Web2 project, KaZaA popup fixes, UI shame, Mozilla vs IE, and a possible Edinburgh master's. Also: antibiotics. Yuck.

I found the cute geek from Apple's Switch ads. His name is Jeremiah Cohick, and I'm convinced he's gay. He emailed to deny it, but I'm skeptical. Awkwardly, he may still be reading this.

Massive link dump covering Tim Berners-Lee's first browser, Jurassic 5, Ben Folds Five, Al-Qaeda golf course sniper panic, Dawson's Creek gay sex, Google Zeitgeist, brain cancer breakthroughs, Apple's OS X giveaway, and Tomato Nation. My topic-hopping is probably breaking Google's brain.

Been too busy working to blog much. My sources for the fun stuff: Gagpipe, Memepool, FARK, Slashdot, Google News. Also, keep reading the baby story. And here's a tasteless 9/11 joke I've been sitting on: New York, so good they whacked it twice.

I'm overwhelmed with projects I never finish and lonely without my uni friends around. I need a boyfriend, but my cycle of infatuation and compromise keeps failing me. I need a gay geek who's cute and likes clubbing. They basically don't exist, hence gaygeeks.org, which I haven't built yet.

Google has indexed my entire site, including blog entries. Amusingly, it will now also index this post about being indexed, creating a hopelessly reflexive loop of links.

A roundup of links: invisible comets, powers of 10, a great domain name, Television Without Pity's Sex and the City recaps, and fat people suing everyone. Also, I'm not alone in threatening to kill people with a spoon. Finally got a work project, but clearly not too busy to blog.

Clearing the backlog: inner-city inmates make "hick-hop," OnlineConversion.com is surprisingly useful, and I've been down a webcomics rabbit hole with mixed results. Also, there are way too many Final Fantasy characters.

Finally got the weblog back-end working, thanks to procrastination. If it's broken, you can't read this anyway.

Got a story accepted on Slashdot. Yay.

My blog just turned one year old. 137 posts, one every 2.6 days, mostly geeky links and incidental nonsense. Not much has changed and nothing will. Here are some links: a cool girl's site, how to strip KaZaA's adware, eDonkey, Blair's 9/11 speech, robot orderlies, and Arctic Eskimos reconnecting with lost traditions.

Working on a site redesign that looks great, but the gruntwork is killing my motivation. Also: everyone needs a naked cowboy in their life. Crazy people are the best.

A dull Easter vacation with spotty internet. Highlights: the iBong, stern Russian greeting card chickens, a Java drawing BBS, some useful Windows tools, a brilliant mashup track, job rejection for being a student, CMS nightmares, and a fat dancer leaving a band.

Finished the latest draft of my play, Silly Things. Nobody reads this blog anyway, so here it is: grab the manuscript in plain text or MS Word format and please, send me feedback.

Procrastinating before my exam, sleep-deprived and randomly surfing, I stumbled onto Boing.com and got weirdly hooked speculating about the anonymous author, the family photos, and whatever plastic surgeon has clearly been busy with them.

I found Anna Kournikova bestiality pics and I'm linking them. Scroll down on the site. Check archives if it's been a while. Buwahahaha.

Post-9/11, the Nimda virus feels trivial by comparison. Still, it's notable as the first virus you can catch just by viewing a webpage, exploiting an IE 5.5 security hole. Here's a demo and the CERT advisory if you want details.

Adobe's press release quotes a fake customer praising their new product, but forgot to give the customer a name, leaving it as "Customer TBD." Classic.

First day at the new job, but my laptop's being set up so I've got nothing to do but blog. Too early to say much about the job yet, but it looks promising.

Not all my content comes from Slashdot. Some comes from Ed. Also: marijuana is 3-4% of Canada's GDP, and I'm on board with banning heterosexual marriage and reproduction.

Matt Elton's site has great content, even if the design is a mess (thanks, Dreamweaver). He's inspired me to write humor again. Also, he linked to me first, so here's my reciprocal nod. And Matt: I wrote about science vs religion before you did.

I got a submission accepted on SlashDot, which combined with my Dilbert newsletter appearance makes me basically a media mogul. Also saw Bridget Jones's Diary -- good movie, but read the book first. Plus some minor blog navigation tweaks.

Exams in a week and I've done everything except revise. Also: Amtrak selling passenger data to the DEA is terrifying, Dogma was great, and Spice World is brilliant precisely because it never pretends to be anything other than a shiny, silly good time.

I've stopped sharing Slashdot links because everything there is worth reading, and you should just be reading it yourself.

Started a blog to keep content fresh and turn rants into articles. This first post is pretty pathetic, but hopefully things improve from here.