I am a romantic. I don’t mean to invoke images of Harlequin romances or that pernicious movie genre dubbed “romantic comedy,” but rather to place myself alongside so many contemporary people who believe that, roughtly speaking, they should be lead by feeling (as opposed to rationality). (At the risk of unduly multiplied parentheses, I would […]
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Humans like round numbers, the bigger the better.
I just discovered that I have published 300 posts on this blog since its inception 859 days ago. (This is actually post #302, I’m a bit slow on the uptake.)
Now, time to go and buy some sanity to celebrate. Anyone know where I can pick some up?
Veteran blogger Michael Spencer (aka Internet Monk) has posted his list of ten reasons I don’t read your blog. I confess that I often think about blogging, so this was a fairly informative (and humorous) list. Here’s #2:
2. You have no sense of humor. You can’t laugh at yourself. You don’t find normal things funny. Your […]
You might notice a bit of a new look around here. After I went live with the new Soma Design site, Jaclyn took a look at mattwiebe.com and thought that it looked a wee mite shabby in comparison. Inspiration struck her, perspiration struck me, and behold, a hot new look.
One of the things I’m proudest of […]
I would have been very surprised indeed to find myself recommending a Microsoft product, but I must say that they’ve done a fine job with Windows Live Writer. It’s a desktop blogging application that works with most popular blog providers, including WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type and Windows Live Spaces.
One of the biggest problems with […]
The short: want an image of yourself associated with comments you make on this blog (and many others)? Read on.
Gravatar was recently acquired by Automattic, the company that supports WordPress development and runs WordPress.com. I never bothered with it before because it was notoriously slow, but Automattic beefed things up and it’s actually usable now. So […]
