Overheard on a bus recently:

“I’ma get me one a them mp3 players.”

“Uh uh. You don’ wanna do that. You don’ wanna get an mp3 player.”

“Why not?”

“You didn’ hear? They’re gettin rid of mp3 and coming out with somethin a LOT better.”

“Oh yeah, I think I heard about that.”

“They’re comin out with mp FOUR next.”

“Right, thass right.”

“I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name.”

-Bob Dylan, “Desolation Row”

Highway 61 Revisited

Thank you, Microsoft, for Internet Explorer 6. Every time I redesign my website, you remind me that nothing is easy and that just because there are “rules” and “standards”, if you’re rich enough and powerful enough, you don’t have to give a flying rat’s fart about ‘em! That’s so awesome of you! Thanks for always being that one special browser that makes me have to spend hours editing style sheets, reloading pages, checking how everything looks in every browser! Damn you fine!

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your extended patience while service deteriorated in an increasingly finicky homebrewed server, and while we transitioned to a Real Actual server. Thanks to shacker and everyone else at birdhouse.org for all their help getting me situated in new digital digs.  Shouts also out to the WordPress community for building a great piece of open-source blogging software and all the fantabuloso themes and plug-ins that extend it.  Goodbye to Movable Type, and to lying awake at night wondering how much it will hurt Ben and Mena if I leave them for …

Well, lookee lookee lookee: you caught me in the middle of applying my finishing touches. I’m not really ready for company, not quite, but, hell, since you’re here, why not leave a comment and let me know what you think of the new format? That’d be awesome. Go you, etc., etc. But if you don’t have anything constructive to add, then shoo! Come back next week when I’m presentable!