The Preamble
For the 1.7 regular readers of this periodically forsaken blog, you may still have a vague recollection of an earlier era (may even have been when we still went by The Duologue!) when a significant portion of my blog entries (there were more then) mentioned national political issues. Lots of stuff about little Georgie [...]

A quick acknowledgment of my absence today … but only today. All this navel gazing takes so much time and energy, and since I actually did some chores tonight and find myself a bit sleep-deprived, I am taking the day off. Catch you on the flipside! … If you would a brief diversion, this is [...]

I spent some thyme this past weekend enhancing the O to the M:

Added ‘Related Posts’ link to each post
Added links to thee site’s ‘Most Popular’ posts
Set up post tags (see them after each post)
Backed up our WP database
Created a favicon (O is the rising sun over the ‘M’ountain)
Updated the sidebar content a bit

I have already [...]

Deep thanks to those who enable us to share our ideas with the world:
Matt Mullenweg can barely buy a drink, but this 22-year-old open-source enthusiast developed WordPress, the open-source publishing software favored by blogging diehards around the world. In 2004, WordPress became well-enough known that Web publishing powerhouse CNet hired Mullenweg to work on it [...]

I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said, ‘You can’t,’
‘You can never be sure.’
‘You die without knowing,’
‘Whether anything you wrote was any good.’
‘If you have to be sure don’t write.’
– W. S. Merwin

To my blog partner, Xtina, who blogged both dedicatedly and beautifully for the entire month of November, huzzah. Reading your posts was a tremendous pleasure, not only for the interesting thoughts and insights into your life, but as much for your writing style. You are talented. Your posts are interesting. I love reading them. And [...]