Those of you who post around here should notice that it’s a lot faster now.

Previously, whenever a new post or reply was created, the weblog would email me a zip file containing all the posts ever made on my site.  (Yes, I am a backup fanatic.)  There are now nearly 800 posts though, and all those posts total about 1 megabyte, and emailing a 1-megabyte file is taking my server about 15-20 seconds.

So now, the weblog will only send that big email once per day.  If you’re the lucky first poster of the day, then you’ll still feel the slowdown between clicking the "post" button and your post appearing.  But all other posts/replies will be ~instant now.

I also cleaned up the help page so it’s now Easier Than Ever(TM) to include links and other formatting in your posts.

Hello squirrel face  ( :

Sinjin is a daddy!!  His nine puppies were born on Mother’s day...  3 boys and 6 girls.  The mother of the puppies is the sister (and litter mate) of our sweet beloved Kiraly. Three are sold already, but the rest are up for grabs...  They are AKC Weimaraners, champion bloodlines on both sides.  Penny, I’ll email you pics, can you put them on here?  Hmmm, can you have a dog at your new apartment???

From the American English Dialect Test:

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

35% Yankee

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

That’s crap though, since obviously the way I talk is the correct way.  There’s obviously some problem with the test, and I really scored a 100% under "General American English."

How about you?

: )  Happy 050505  ( :

lvu, as always,

On the side of a package of paper towels:

OK, they’re PAPER TOWELS, how can there possibly be 50 patents on them??

Anthony and I took some portraits and some photos of our soon-to-be home this weekend. It was really cool, because the couple renting the house was super helpful. They even told us what roads get really icy in the winter! We’re really excited, so I wanted to share the pictures. Anthony was going to post these photos on his own site, but I beat him to the punch. wahahahaha. I win. : )

Hey,

Have you seen the little Sonic Impact T-Amp yet?  It’s only 30 bucks and it’s really pretty good.  Dang good for a computer system or other job that doesn’t need a huge amount of power.  I can run my normal rig at reasonable levels with 6 watts.

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/sonicimpact/t.html

Cheers