Political Bloviation

I haven’t been posting much lately. Last Friday my sister Maria died suddenly at age 48. She left behind a 23 year old daughter, a 16 year old son and a 9 year old son. I watched as my family members shuffled in and out of the curtained ER bay and clustered around the gurney [...]

I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1, we’ll see how that works. I need to do some work to update plugins, like the one that caused my sidebar customizations to vanish. And where’s my spell chrcker? Arrggggh!!!!
UPDATE:
I got my sidebar to work again and also got the WPG2 plug-in working with Gallery 2.1.2. Also found some nifty [...]

Life has been hectic recently and I’ve been neglecting the blog. Let’s see, there was an extended trip to the far east, moving and getting married. In short I’ve been busy. Since life seems to be settling down I’ll resume making more or less regular posts.

I won’t be doing much blogging for the next 2 weeks. I’ll be in the Philippines for about a month. I’m getting married to a wonderful lady, taking a few weeks off, then I’ll be working from Manila for a few more weeks. I may make a post or two after I get back to [...]

I spent some time improving the server that hosts my site. I upgraded the operating system to the recently released SME Linux 7.0. I also added a RAID 1 mirror set using a pair of Segate 160 GB IDE drives. One of these days when I get some spare change I’ll bump the memory up [...]

Taal Volcano and Puerto Galera

I’ll be taking two weeks off for a trip to Manila to spend some time with my sweetie. I probably won’t be doing a lot of blogging, except for maybe posting some pictures of Puerto Galera, Coco Beach and Tagatay. Take care, I’m off to loaf around on a South China Sea Beach for a [...]

An explanation of how this site came to be and …

After much pulling of the hair and gnashing of …

This is a trial run for using Geeklog. I played with some others, but this looked like the simplest content management system solution for my po’ little solo blog.

Update 6/21/2005:
I’m trying out Wordpress these days. It has better integration with important blog features like pingback and trackback. It’s also easier to install plugins and the [...]