Not fat

If I'm being honest, the last couple years of my life have not been the best of the bunch. I won't dwell though, because I'm English and that's not what we do.

However, good news was delivered today. It doesn't really make up for the preceding 30-ish months, but perhaps because of them, this lifted my spirits. I am back to my college weight.

The best part is that I haven't been trying to get back to any weight whatsoever, so it's like an unexpected gift.

I'm living it up in MI

I'm back in EL again to hang with Manny.

So far, I've been working on a website for a friend (hey Eric!), fighting off some cold or something I picked up by previously staying up way too late working on said website, and setting up Skype with a webcam so Manny can chat with his wife (hi Mom!), daughter (hi Janet!) and granddaughters (hi Rowan and Jael) across the Pond.

If you are reading this, use skype (or want some help learning how), and know Manny or me, drop me an email a we'll be video-conferencing toot sweet.

Also, stay tuned because my next humor/tech thing for MSNBC might go up any time and I'll post a link here when it does.

this is a funny "Web 2.0"-ish explanation

of why a web-comic I read (shut your hurtful mouth) wasn't updated this week.

It has some naughty words in it though, so don't click this link if individual words have the power to make you cry.

I call it Web 2.0, because folks like Flickr popularized the use of honest and/or humorous client-facing verbiage in modern web businesses. Also, paradigm and synergy!

http://www.freakangels.com/?p=59

I saw this awesome thing

on Clicked on MSNBC:

going to Boston

I'm tripping up to Boston for a conference:

"Web 2.0 and Your Brand". It sounds like the kind of title I roll my eyes at, but having talked with one of the organizers, I'm expecting good things. I expect my only problem with the name is that using "Web 2.0" is a common symptom of taking yourself too seriously, and I'm allergic to that. Still, it is about branding in the world of social media, so the title's right and it should be fun.

I'm going to split the drive by staying in NYC tonight and then driving up to visit my good buddies Eric and Erica in Boston. Looking forward to seeing them.

Anyway, if you need me, I'll be on the road, so calling will work best.

trying out a widget tool

This is the future of the interwebs . . . perhaps.





But does it work?

Well, I didn't put the code in twice, as far as I know. I wonder if the IE tab add-on for firefox is confusing the JavaScript that decides which version of the widget to show. Hmmm.

Hey, seems to work just fine now. That's encouraging.

my car just got stolen . . .

. . . By the NY police dept.

Apparently it was moved by the movies unit, but after 45 minutes of calling, hand-wringing, & wandering around, we found it. No thanks, I might add, to the goddamn police.