New blogs, same me
Well, I’m expanding my repertoire on my blogging gig, and will now be writing for the very awesome TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) and very new but equally awesome DIY Life blogs. While I’ve already written a post for each one, they won’t likely be live on the sites until tomorrow sometime.
Yes, you may have noticed that Francesca is already writing for DIY Life. Luckily she doesn’t mind me treading on her turf, and it’s definitely her turf; she’s a writing machine, and I have written one whole post there this week. As a not very handy guy, I tend to find writing about technology easier, but I figure if I’m going to have to learn to do stuff around the house I might as well write about it. What’s that old adage about those that can, do… and those that can’t write teach? Something like that, anyway.
My wife the professional writer
So in addition to re-launching her personal blog, Francesca recently got a job with Weblogs Inc. (owned by AOL) writing for a new property there called DIY Life. She’s already doing a fantastic job, and you can check out her posts (and only her posts) by visiting this link. My favourite so far that she has written is about what to do if you get regular dishsoap in your dishwasher, mainly because I was the one that caused that problem in our house! Congratulations on the new gig, Frankie!
Blog maintenance complete
So this is the last meta post for awhile. I’ve now completed moving this blog onto a new server - my own server, finally! (Thanks for the many years of free hosting Steve!) I also took the opportunity to upgrade to WordPress 2.2, and freshen up the look of the site.
Of course, that all implies that I’m actually going to write more. That’s the plan, anyway.
We’ve also recently re-launched Beer League Hockey as a blog - we being me and my friend Glen (time to get your own blog so I can link to you!), who ends up doing most of all of the writing there.
And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the re-launch of Francesca’s blog. I had nothing to do with it other than running the one-click installer on the web server, but check it out because Fran’s a great writer. (more on that soon…)
Switching servers
If things go sideways here, it’s because I’m switching this blog’s server. Please be patient, it should all be back to normal within a few hours.
[Update] As it turns out, there was a pretty fundamental part of the site that has been broken for awhile now. (I wondered why I wasn’t getting any comments!) Anyhow, I’ve reverted to a very old theme with some out of date info in it, and some missing functionality. It’s only a temporary situation though.
Even Billionaires have tantrums
This just struck me as funny. Apparently Richard Branson, the billionaire owner of Virgin Atlantic and a myriad of other businesses got so flustered during a taping of The Colbert Report that he actually threw his water on Stephen Colbert. It sounds like that episode will never air, and that Branson is scheduled to re-tape his segment at a later date.
