Movable Type Upgrade

I have successfully upgraded my blog software. Woo hoo! I looked around at the current blog software offerings thinking I might replace Movable Type with something from the Open Source/GPL arena. I like Blosxom quite a bit but it is not quite as sophisticated in terms of user management as I want. A lot of … Read more

I Love My Job

OK, so, I work in one of the coolest groups at one of the coolest companies, ever. No wait. I work in the coolest group at the coolest company, ever. Yes, ever! We (that is, my group at my company) do things like iPod and iSight. I’m sorry but we’re talkin’ the very crown jewels … Read more

Ported All of Smittie’s Ramblings

Well, I got all of Smittie’s Ramblings ported to Movable Type. Now I need to get the Family News weblog ported. Then get the layout worked out and I’ll be ready to throw the switch, again. Whew! I’m ready to be done switching web hosting services. What a pain in the butt! Aloha

Quiet

Yes, I’ve been rather quiet. I suspect that no one has really noticed because I don’t think anyone reads this stuff but me. That’s OK. One of the primary reasons I do this is to entertain me. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to be entertaining thousands with my humor and wit. There’s lots going … Read more

New Domain Name

I am beginning the migration to a new domain name. homeinjapan.com would or will be a cool name if/when we live in Japan. However, we don’t seem likely to end up there any time soon. So, I went looking for a more fitting name. Some cyber-squatting company named Eurobox Ltd. is squatting on smittie.com. Cyber-squatting … Read more

An Epiphanic Moment

zmittie (10:46:18): Joey’s site inspires me to put more content on mine but damn it takes a lot of time to do the content right. cls (10:46:27): YEs, yes it does. cls (10:46:44): That’s what I have so much half done content on my local machine and crap on my site. zmittie (10:46:50): I’d like … Read more

15 Minutes of Fame

I got linked!! I got linked!! This is so cool. I got linked! And by somebody famous too!! I mean, like, I don’t wanna get all gushy but this is pretty exciting day for me. OK, so here’s the details. My new best friend Joey had this incredible, hair color-changing experience (before/after) that’s currently all … Read more