Batten Down The Solar Hatches, Arrrrrrrgh!

The Earth is getting pummeled today by a giant solar storm, the third-largest ever recorded. If this blog ceases to be updated for the rest of the day, you’ll know why.

Maybe some day we’ll find a way to harness this incredible electromagnetic energy that’s now considered a nusiance. But enough about my weblog…

in Uncategorized | 54 Words | Comment

Fun with Meta Tags

I was looking at the page source for the website of They Might Be Giants. Here are the Meta tags which describe their site:

meta NAME=”description” content=”They Might be Giants are a band of rockers responsible for creating numerous songs about dead presidents and disembodied heads… but in a nice way. Both band leader’s names are JOHN and everyone else is named DAN.”

meta NAME=”keywords” content=”rock, rockers, malcolm in the middle, birdhouse in your soul, tmbg, they might be giants, monkeys, president heads, mink car, factory showroom, flood, ana ng, free mp3, mp3, download mp3, download, porn stars, anti-gravity boots, guitar, guitars, johns, flansburgh, linnell, band of dans, shooting gallery, taft, roosevelt, nixon, accordian, ecards, e-cards, streaming music, music, radio, modern rock, pop music, pop stars, eclectic music, alternative music, hornblow, hornblow group, chopping block”

in Uncategorized | 139 Words | Comment

Deep Thoughts

There’s no limit to what you can do if you don’t mind looking like an idiot.

in Uncategorized | 16 Words | Comment

A weblog meets the bit-bucket

My buddy Weave has called it quits on his weblog. It’s a shame, too, since he is a good writer and usually posted something interesting to read every day or so. I hope it was the whiskey talking and not his true desire to stop writing.

Weblogs are such personal things. In D.C. this weekend, Kelly saw a friend with whom she goes WAY back. Though she and Kelly haven’t spoken regularly in years, this friend seemed to know everything about us, thanks to reading our blogs (this one and Hallie’s).

This phenomenon of people knowing things about you that you didn’t directly tell them is unique to weblogs. It’s weird trying to strike up conversation about some topic, only to have your audience tell you “oh, yeah. I already know that.” If I feel somewhat creative today, maybe I can come up with a name for it.

Anyway, weblogs are a window on the lives of my friends, family and associates. When their blogs are left to rot, or disabled entirely, I feel some sort of connection has been lost.

It’s a lonely web out there. Let’s stick together!

in Uncategorized | 191 Words | Comment