Thus revealed, the creature buried its nose in the tire-tilled soil...
June 6, 2004
Comments! And thoughts about men and women.
Category: Miscellany

Already had 'em, but I made a few changes to the way they're working. Unfortunately, I was working with an older version of the comments template (apparently the latest version wasn't the one on my hard drive), so I unwittingly overwrote some of my later changes and had to try and do my best to recreate them. I may not have done so as well as I'd like, so if you notice anything drop a comment or send an e-mail and let me know. And I kicked up the comment maxlength quite a bit (since once or twice people have had problems with that), so you should be able to post some pretty long comments now. If you want. (more...)

-posted by Wes | 7:13 am | Comments (0)
May 25, 2004
Stuff, stuff, stuff.
Category: Miscellany

Eventful day yesterday... I'd tell you about it, but I ran up enough photos to turn the day's events into a Scary-Crayon piece, so hopefully I'll have that written up in time for next week. But after that I had an interview of sorts at one of the U.S. PIRG offices, which went well enough, but unfortunately the hours of that office don't mesh too well with the public transportation schedule (hours are like 2PM-10PM; around here, buses stop running around 7PM). The guy who ran the office seemed to like me, though -- really nice guy; fellow Yale grad, too -- so he gave me the number of another office in D.C. with more viable hours. That could work, but I've got an interview for a part-time job at Books A Million on Wed, so I think I'll see how that goes fist. These last few days have been pretty exhausting, so I'll use tomorrow for downtime and to work on the next SC article (which I'll hopefully get up sometime later today; if not then, I'll shoot for Wednesday). It should be a fun one, so stay tuned...

And I've still got two slots left for the FIVE QUESTIONS GAME -- so far, Brent and De are confirmed players, and I think Sam's in too. So if you wanna play, leave a comment! Once I've got all of the players, I'll write up the questions and send 'em out. 🙂

Still need to blog about Angel, too... but not tonight. Ja for now!

-posted by Wes | 2:02 am | Comments (0)
May 23, 2004
Five Questions! (and then some)
Category: Miscellany

Angel's still on the list of future blog topics, but for tonight's post I've answered Estella's five questions! Some other questions have also been answered...so I think I'm all caught up now on that front. Alrighty, HERE WE GO! (more...)

-posted by Wes | 12:10 am | Comments (0)
May 18, 2004
A storm, an anecdote, and four pictures.
Category: Miscellany

Nasty weather we're having, eh? For those of you not in the area, we're in the middle of a heavy rain-thunder-lightning-hailstorm. But hey, at least I'm not without background noise...it almost sounds like it's coming through the roof. I hope not! (more...)

-posted by Wes | 6:26 pm | Comments (0)
Wes, you worry too much...
Category: Miscellany

Alright, so today's unique visitors only doubled, which isn't so bad. And while I'm sure that the plug on god bless the children of iraq had something to do with it, I'm not entirely sure how much, since a good number of hits came in today from a handful of blog and forum posts. And of course, the TMNT anime drew the vast majority of hits, which probably wouldn't be the case if most of the visitors came to the index, since I'd expect them to read the most recent articles rather than the old TMNT one. Well, there's a relief. Actually, it's worth noting that it was the blog that pulled in more than the usual number of posts, with over double the visitors it gets on a regular basis. Given that the usual number of people viewed the main page, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the post pages and the resultant increased frequency of pages appearing on google searches help account for the increased number of unique visitors, as well as the possibility that the various web bots faced the daunting challenge of scanning them ALL today (which would account for today's rather HUGE access log file). Whew.

So yeah, the site is okay! And I'm still gonna donate something to Ryan, 'cause that server's gotta be killing him, even if my shameless plug didn't end up causing the death of mine. Again, I wipe my brow to that one.

Alrighty, I'm mighty tired now, but I should have a new article for you on Wednesday...and maybe another little something later today/tomorrow. Whee.

-posted by Wes | 12:46 am | Comments (0)